Born in 1996, Olivia Martin began percussion at the CRR of Nice in the class of Minh-Tâm Nguyen. She then studied piano, dance, singing, electric guitar and electro-acoustic composition. While still in high school, she left the Mediterranean to study at the CRR of Paris with Frédéric Macarez, Philippe Labadie and Eric Sammut. There she obtained her scientific baccalaureate two years later and then her DEM in percussion. She entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Lyon at the age of 18 in the class of Jean Geoffroy, Minh-Tâm Nguyen and Henri-Charles Caget. The following year she was a laureate of the Northwestern University International Percussion Competition in Chicago. She obtained her master’s degree in 2019 and today collaborates with the GRAME (Centre National de Création), the TaCTuS ensemble, Les Nouveaux Caractères, the Écoute ensemble, the Théâtre National Populaire, the Lyon Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre Prométhée.
Olivia Martin
