Martin White (leader)
Martin is a violinist, violist and baroque violinist with an interest in all types of music from Irish folk to Early
Baroque and 21st Century music. He read English and Music at university and studied violin with Nesta
Franklin in Bristol, Anne Hooley of Trinity College London, and Pam Rosenfeld in Truro. He has lived in Cornwall
since 1992 and has played with many groups in a variety of venues in Cornwall, including some solo work, for
example in Truro Cathedral playing Beethoven Romances.
He has led St Mewan Sinfonia, Cornwall’s only string orchestra, since 1997, and is very proud of their high
standard of music, and he plays regularly in baroque ensembles in West Cornwall both at modern pitch with
Russell Blacker and in the Heinichen Ensemble with Antony White and the South West Baroque Orchestra,
which are both baroque pitch groups.
He plays for fun in string quartets and for various choirs and larger ensembles in Cornwall, including Three
Spires in the cathedral, the Orchestra of St Marys in Penzance, and Duchy Opera and Ballet in the Hall for
Cornwall. He also plays regularly in various groups in Spain. His current addiction, apart from gin, is French
Baroque Art music, which is a very rich area for study as it is so difficult to master.
Martin is a passionate advocate of the power of music to develop the brains of child learners and to sustain
the brains of adults. But his guiding philosophy is that it is totally a privilege to be a musician and as such a
duty on the musician to share the gift of music as widely as possible at all times and in all ways.
The other players…
Martin White (leader)
Martin is a violinist, violist and baroque violinist with an
interest in all types of music from Irish folk to Early Baroque
and 21st Century music. He read English and Music at
university and studied violin with Nesta Franklin in Bristol,
Anne Hooley of Trinity College London, and Pam Rosenfeld in
Truro. He has lived in Cornwall since 1992 and has played
with many groups in a variety of venues in Cornwall, including
some solo work, for example in Truro Cathedral playing
Beethoven Romances.
He has led St Mewan Sinfonia, Cornwall’s only string
orchestra, since 1997, and is very proud of their high
standard of music, and he plays regularly in baroque
ensembles in West Cornwall both at modern pitch with
Russell Blacker and in the Heinichen Ensemble with Antony
White and the South West Baroque Orchestra, which are
both baroque pitch groups.
He plays for fun in string quartets and for various choirs and
larger ensembles in Cornwall, including Three Spires in the
cathedral, the Orchestra of St Marys in Penzance, and Duchy
Opera and Ballet in the Hall for Cornwall. He also plays
regularly in various groups in Spain. His current addiction,
apart from gin, is French Baroque Art music, which is a very
rich area for study as it is so difficult to master.
Martin is a passionate advocate of the power of music to
develop the brains of child learners and to sustain the brains
of adults. But his guiding philosophy is that it is totally a
privilege to be a musician and as such a duty on the musician
to share the gift of music as widely as possible at all times
and in all ways.