Joseph Martin (Tenor), Martin Bussey (Pianist/Composer)

Joseph Martin will be performing in a recital with Martin Bussey on Sunday afternoon, 28th June. The programme will include music by Handel, Schubert and Vaughn Williams as well as some of Martin Bussey’s own compositions. Doors open at 4pm and refreshments are available then and in the interval.

Joseph Martin is a tenor and conductor based in the North West.  In demand as both a soloist and ensemble singer, he has performed in prestigious venues across the UK, US, Europe, and Asia with ensembles including Genesis Sixteen, Kantos Chamber Choir, Ad Solem, and The Liverpool Bach Collective. Joseph currently serves as Musical Director of Voces Pulchrae, an early music choir based in Stockport. He read Music at The University of Manchester, from which he is a recent graduate. During his studies, he conducted both Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers, the university’s premier chamber choirs. Joseph was also actively involved in the University Opera, appearing as a soloist in Mrs President by Victoria Bond, and working as a manager on productions of Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict and Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. As a soloist, Joseph performs regularly across the North West. Recent highlights include Bach’s St Matthew Passion and several cantatas with The Liverpool Bach Collective. Joseph maintains strong links with cathedral music in the region. He is currently a Lay Clerk at Blackburn Cathedral and a Vocal Tutor at Chester Cathedral. Upcoming engagements include his debut at the Southwell Music Festival as a Vocal Apprentice, alongside work with the VOCES8 Scholars.

Martin Bussey combines the roles of composer and conductor; ‘A distinctive contemporary voice’ (Resonus Classics). His music often reflects his passion for voices but there is also a substantial catalogue of instrumental works, particularly for organ and piano and illustrates his strong interest in history, literature and life in the borderlands between Cheshire, Shropshire and Wales.  Martin’s songs, choral and instrumental works have been broadcast on many occasions on BBC Radio 3 and performed at many venues including Wigmore Hall, The Barbican, Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, RNCM, RCM and GSMD, and at Lake District Summer Music, Endellion, Southwell and Three Choirs Festivals. He has many recordings released on the Resonus classical label including ‘In no strange land” sung by Sonoro, directed by Neil Ferris, cited as “glorious” by BBC Music Magazine. Martin was a Choral Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge where he read Music, after which he studied as a post-graduate singer at the Royal Northern College of Music with Nicholas Powell. He ran the aural, academic music and choral programmes at Chetham’s School of Music from 1988 to 2013 and directed Chester Bach Singers for 38 years until 2025. He is a longstanding vocal tutor at Manchester University; Chairman of the Finzi Friends; a director of Ludlow English Song; and a trustee of Kantos Choir. https://www.martinbussey.com/