Ingrid Martin shares how a desire to pursue diverse interests gave her the self belief and confidence to establish a conducting career following on from her medical career. She talks about the connection between medicine and music through the interpersonal skills of listening, empathy and non-verbal communication; and how ‘finding her tribe’ during her graduate studies ignited an entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to music education.
Ingrid Martin is a highly sought after conductor and music educator. Ingrid trained in Medicine at Monash University and worked as an emergency physician while maintaining a busy musical life as a Conductor, Horn Player and Violinist. A decision to further her conducting training meant relocating to the University of Minnesota where she completed a postgraduate degree with mentor, Craig Kirchhoff.
QUOTES
“Being an empathetic person is what makes a successful doctor and what also makes a successful conductor.”
“ I realised that actually I’ve done this before, and I have a lot of skills in this area already which only happened because I’d done medicine. If I’d studied music, I wouldn’t have had to make all those opportunities.”
“Whatever you do when you finish school, in fact whatever you do at all doesn’t actually define you.”
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PODCAST TEAM
Production Penny Manwaring
Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick
Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun
Theme Music Composed by Natasha Pearson
Theme Music Performed by Alison McIntosh-Deszcz (soprano), Natasha Lin (piano), and Susan Eldridge (horn).
Theme Music Recorded Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio, 3MBS Fine Music in Melbourne in October 2016. With thanks to recording engineer Cheryl Scott.
FIRST BROADCAST
11 January 2017