Martyn Shaw

Martyn Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Flute and Creative Musicianship. He teaches units on the BA (Hons) Classical Music programme including Aural Skills and Specialist Group Study. Martyn also teaches at Chetham’s School of Music, and gives regular masterclasses in historical performance practice.

Martyn studied at Chetham’s School of Music before accepting a place at the Trevor Wye Studio, funded by a Graucob Award. He continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and was subsequently awarded a double entrance scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music, where he completed the Masters’ programme. Martyn studied with Edward Beckett, Sam Coles, Michael Cox, Kate Hill, Paul Edmund-Davies, Averil Williams and Trevor Wye, and Baroque and Classical flutes with Lisa Beznosiuk, Rachel Brown and Stephen Preston.

He is a past recipient of the British Land Award (2003), Jean Vincent Award (Dalcroze Society UK) and winner of Jerwood Foundation and MBF scholarships. Currently Martyn is undertaking doctoral research at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Early Music Performance and Research (CEMPR). His research focuses on aspects of tone in the performance practices of early nineteenth-century England. Martyn’s research is supported by a Barber scholarship.

As a performer Martyn has freelanced with several leading ensembles including Armonico Consort, English Scholars, English Touring Opera, London Handel Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Eighteenth Century Concert Orchestra and Welsh Baroque.

In 2012 Martyn will present academic papers at the Royal Music Association Research Students’ Conference (University of Hull), the Society for Musicology in Ireland Postgraduate Conference (Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama), University of Birmingham Musicology Research Seminars Series, and the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (University of Edinburgh).