Zerrin Agabigum Martin, (she/her/hers), is active as conductor, voice clinician, educator, and professional singer. She is an Assistant Professor, Director of Choral Activities and Choral Music Education at the University of Tampa where she directs the University of Tampa Chamber Singers, University of Tampa Camerata, teaches Aural Skills I, II, and III, choral conducting, and Choral and Vocal Methods courses.

Dr. Martin’s research is centered on the 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. More recently, she published her article “Four Practical SOVT Exercises to Support Healthy Choral Singing” in the On The Voice column of the 2026 February Choral Journal. Dr. Martin has applied her research as a voice care clinician with various collegiate, K-12, and professional and community choral organizations, including the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Minnesota Choral. She has presented Florida ACDA state conferences, Nevada ACDA, the National Black Association for Speech, Language, and Hearing National Conference, and the Florida American Speech Hearing Association. She is licensed by the State of Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology as an SLP-A.

Dr. Martin earned her DMA in Choral Conducting with a cognate area of research in Speech, Language, Pathology and Voice Sciences at the University of Florida. While at the University of Florida, she was a Graduate Assistant for the University of Florida Choral Program conducting the University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Ensembles 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. 

As an educator, Dr. Martin taught middle and high school choirs in public and private schools. Consistently her middle and high school choirs 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, Dr. Martin performs with Conspirare, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Bach Vocal Artists, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and other professional choral ensembles. With Conspirare: A Company of Voices, she can be heard on the 2026 GRAMMY-nonimated album, advena: liturgies for a broken world. She is excited to be on Conspirare’s next album, Sunstone: Joby Talbot’s Piedra de Sol to be released in August 2026. Previously, 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. 

She 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. Dr. Martin 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.