Tim Martin, our Band and Orchestra Director has been at Washburn since 2010.  He has been teaching and directing music in Minneapolis since 1997. He taught at Northeast Middle School, Edgewood Middle, North High School, Olson Middle School, Lyndale Elementary and Kenny Elementary.
   
     When he is not on the podium here at Washburn, he is an active trumpet performer and teacher in the Twin Cities. Since 1992 he has performed and recorded with many local groups, most notably and currently  the Belfast Cowboys, the Star of the North Jazz Orchestra,  Nova Jazz Orchestra, and Rogue Valley. He has recorded and performed with the St. Peter Street Stompers, K.C. Gospel Orchestra, the Stan Bahn Big Band, Bomba, Vic Volare and the Volare Lounge Orchestra, the Rod Smith Big Band, Northern Lights Community Band, the Kenwood Orchestra, Jim “Irish” Tolcks Little Big Band, The Big Pink, Cedar Avenue Big Band, Chuck Beasley Big Band, and Beacon Hill Brass, St. Dominic’s Trio, Power of Ten, Free and Easy, High and Mighty, among many other groups. He performs for church services, weddings, school concerts and solo appearances.

   
    He has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Frank Foster, Steve Houghton and singer/songwriter Bryan Duncan, opened for or shared the stage with Graham Parker, Billy Bragg,  Chicago, Sugar Ray, Dessa, Gaelic Storm, GB Leighton, Rocket Club, James Loney and Lolo's Ghost. Little River Band, G_Love and Special Sauce, Big Head Todd and the Monsters. 

    He was a panelist on the Minnesota State Arts Board "Artist in Residency" Grant Review Panel in the summer of 2003 and 2004.
   
    He has been the conductor of the Northeast Community Band sincesince he founded the group in 1999.

    Mr. Martin is a 1997 graduate of the University of Minnesota, with a Bachelor's degree in Music Education, a 1992 graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University, with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Trumpet Performance, and 1987 graduate of South High School in Minneapolis.
   
    He lives in New Brighton with his wife and three kids. Enjoys his Minnesota Sports teams, plays a terrible round of golf, loves pizza and is "all in Orange and Blue" for his Millers.