Zerrin Agabigum Martin, (she/her/hers), is active as conductor, voice clinician, educator, and professional singer. She is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Choral Conducting at the University of Florida, Graduate Assistant for the University of Florida Choral Program, and the graduate representative for the University of Florida College of the Arts Student Council of Representatives. Previously, she held the positions of Director of Choirs at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida, Director of Choirs at the Tower Hill School in Delaware, and the Director of the Trouvères and Troubador choirs with the Pennsylvania Girlchoir in Philadelphia. 

Zerrin’s doctoral research is centered on applications of clinical care and evidence-based practices in Speech Language Pathology and vocology in choral pedagogy. Her article “Choral Pedagogical Tools and Vocal Exercises: A Practical Guide To Teaching Handel’s Messiah,” was published as the October 2023 feature article in The Choral Journal. Zerrin has applied her research as a voice care clinician with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Minnesota Choral. She has presented at the Florida ACDA state conference, and will be presenting applications of her research in podium sessions at the 2025 NBASLH National Conference and the 2025 Florida American Speech Hearing Association conference.

Consistently, her middle and high school choirs have received top awards and accolades. In 2019, her 7th and 8th Grade Tower Hill Concert Choir presented a solo concert at the National Association for Music Education All- Eastern Division Conference. Her high school choirs have presented solo concerts at the Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, won numerous festival competitions, and have won First and Second Place Awards at the Maryland ECAS Choral Competitions. In 2013, she founded the Delaware Independent Schools Choral Festival, providing hundreds of high school choral singers opportunities to work with leading collegiate choral conductors on choral masterworks and was awarded the Top Educator Award of Delaware Mainline Today for her work with Delaware school choral programs.  

As a solo artist, her engagements include Dvořák Requiem, Charpentier Te Deum, Zelenka Missa Paschalis, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, Schütz Symphoniae Sacrae III, Copland In the Beginning, Handel Messiah, Mendelssohn Elijah, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart Coronation Mass, Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri, and Bach St. Matthew and St. John Passions. 

An avid ensemble singer, Zerrin performs with Conspirare, Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and Solaria Singers. She has performed with Seraphic Fire, True Concord Voices, The Crossing Choir, the Weimar Bachakademie Ensemble, the JSB Ensemble of the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart, Norfolk Music Festival Chamber Choir. 

Zerrin received her Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance with teaching certification from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Freda Herseth, Dr. Jerry Blackstone, and Dr. Paul Rardin. She received her Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College where she studied with Dr. Joe Miller, Dr. Andrew Megill, and Dr. James Jordan, and Margaret Cusack. 

In her spare time, she loves to spend time with her family, travel, read, knit, bake, run, hike, and is a fan of mystery and fantasy fiction.