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Martin Banner
- Martin Banner (b. 1951) has established himself in the choral world as a respected editor and clinician. He received his bachelor of music degree in Music Education from the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, and earned the master of music degree in Choral Conducting from Temple University. As a clinician, he has presented numerous workshops, conducted choral reading sessions and participated in panel discussions at annual conferences of ACDA, the New York State School Music Association and the Music Publishers Association.
As an editor, Mr. Banner has had over 100 modern performing editions of choral works published, with an emphasis on sacred Latin compositions of the 18th and early 19th Centuries for combined chorus and orchestra. Most of these modern performing editions have been prepared from autograph manuscripts located in national libraries and monasteries, that Mr. Banner has examined during research trips to Vienna, Salzburg, Melk, Munich, Bologna, Venice and Lucca.