Martin Butler

Martin Butler (born 1960 in Romsey Hampshire England) is a musician and composer of classical music. He studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert. In 1983, he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University USA and received the Master of Fine Arts in 1985. Awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1988, he spent time at Tempo Reale, Berio's studio in Florence. In 1994, he received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Northern College of Music. Between September 1998 and July 1999, he was Composer-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, United States. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of Sussex.