Matthew Martin is Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he has led the choir in a number of BBC broadcasts, concert tours and recordings. Matthew read music at Magdalen College, Oxford, before studying at the Royal Academy of Music and with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. He spent much of his early life immersed in cathedral music, and in 2010, after six years as Assistant Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, began to focus more on composition. Since then he has been commissioned to write for The Tallis Scholars, The Gabrieli Consort and The Sixteen. Recent projects have included a festival anthem (In the midst of thy Temple) to mark the 750th anniversary of the dedication of Westminster Abbey, a test piece (Triptych) for the 2019 St Albans International Organ Competition and, in 2023, a setting of Angelus ad Virginem for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge.