Composer.

Saxophonist.

Climate Advocate.

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making positive change through the intersection of music and climate advocacy

🌿 🎶 making positive change through the intersection of music and climate advocacy

Iwan Fox. 4 Bars Rest

“The bucolic canvas of ‘Betws-y-coed by Nina Martin brought a darkened beauty out of a tender landscape…”

About

Nina Martin is a British Composer, Saxophonist and Climate Advocate. As a Royal Philharmonic Society beneficiary, she currently studies at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, having also studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She is winner of the NYBBGB Young Composer’s Competition 2025, the Howarth of London Single Reed Prize 2025, and was selected to compose for the upcoming BBC NOW: Composition Wales 2027.

In 2021, Nina had her first composition performed three times at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall by members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, where she went on to win the Peter Redfearn Prize for Composition and the Sandbach Concert Series Young Musician of the Year. She has since performed and had original works performed across Norway, Mongolia, Wales and England.

Nina’s creative voice spans the intersection of music and climate advocacy, with compositions often directly referencing contemporary climate issues. She often performs her own works as a saxophonist, as well as working with ensembles and musicians on new commissions, such as the Equilibrium Quartet, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Session Orchestra, RWCMD Saxophone Choir, RNCM Saxophone Choir, Bute Voices, NOVA Quartet, and the Royal Northern Ballet School. This creative work is supported by a strong foundation of knowledge about environmental issues, as an EarthSonic Local fellow, and having studied courses in Climate Policy, Environmental Politics and Environmental Humanities at the University of Bergen, as well as completing the University of Tasmania’s Climate Shift programme. Nina founded the RWCMD World Environment Series which included a concert in the Dora Stoutzker Hall, and Art Exhibition, focusing on young people’s creative responses to climate change. She has also worked with Beacons Cymru to create the Echo project; aimed to help students in the Welsh Valleys to create musical responses to the environmental crisis.