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

Joseph Martin will be performing a selection of songs which will include music by Handel, Schubert, Vaughn Williams and Bussey. Joe is a graduate of the University of Manchester and regularly performs as soloist across the north west. Recent performances include St Matthew Passion (Bach) and Bach cantatas with the Liverpool Bach Collective. He has toured nationally and internationally with ensembles such as Genesis Sixteen, Cantos Chamber Choir and Ad Solem. He is no stranger to Oswestry audiences having performed as soloist with Cantiones Choir in Mozart’s Coronation mass, Tippett spirituals and Chilcott’s St John Passion. This year he is performing with VOCES8 scholars and at the Southwell Music Festival.

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/