Martin White 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. Martin 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 most recently in the 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 making under Nigel Wicken, 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 which is a baroque pitch group. 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.