Bob Martin

Martin is the director of the Roswell New Horizons Bands. At the Georgia Music Educators Association’s 2008 Annual Conference in Savannah, GA., Bob and the RNHB were the recipients of The National Band Association’s “Citation of Excellence”. This “Citation” was awarded in recognition of RNHB’s history of a distinguished level of accomplishment and for an outstanding contribution to bands and band music. One of the highlights of our 2008 performance for The Georgia Music Educators included the world premier of Bob’s arrangement of “A Brazilian Concerto for Flute,” featuring Dr. Roy. In addition to the RNHB’s concert/pops band, there are two seventeen-piece jazz bands that celebrate the music of the Big Band Era. An outstanding vocalist is included and one of the bands has produced a four-voice vocal group, in the style of the Pied Pipers and the Modernaires. The Dixie Kings is a Dixieland Band that celebrates the music of New Orleans. We also have several smaller groups. During his career as an educator in the public schools of North Carolina and Georgia, he received the “Outstanding Bandmaster Award”. This was in association with the Centennial Celebration of 1976, presented by Kappa Kappa Psi band fraternity. Bob and his wife, Julie, reside in the mountain community of Ellijay. She is a semiretired educator who is a principal of the Mountain Education Center, a charter, nighttime high school. Their son, Brian, has recently returned from spending over a year in Peru, doing exciting things like guiding excursions of raft groups thru the deepest canyon in the world. Bob will be teaching Improvisation, Jazz Lab Band, Advanced Jazz Band and conducting Band 2 with Patti Kroth.