Phillip Neil Martin is an internationally award-winning young composer. His work crosses the divide from experimental concert music and installations to film, dance and fashion. His output intersects the boundaries of Western classical music, multimedia and traditional Eastern music. Recent work includes the world premiere of Standing Water for 12 players, commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra; Stilled... for piano quartet, commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble; and Black & White for four taiko drummers, electronics, fashion and architecture, commissioned by the City of London Festival 2006.

Born in Canterbury in 1979, Phillip Neil Martin received a Foundation Scholarship to study his BMus with Julian Anderson at the Royal College of Music, graduating with First Class Honours in 2002. He returned to read his MMus graduating with Distinction in 2004 and was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal for overall excellence. Phillip attended the Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme Contemporary Composition Course (2001) studying with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Magnus Lindberg and the New Music, New Media Course (2002). Phillip recently attended IRCAM’s one-month Composition and Computer Music Course in Paris (2006) and the spnm's Music for Theatre multimedia residency with Theatre Cryptic, Glasgow (2006). Phillip has won numerous awards including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize 2003. He won all the awards and prizes at the RCM including the Cobbertt & Hurlstone Prize (first won by Benjamin Britten). He was the youngest finalist in the Toru Takemitsu International Composition Competition 2003 with his first orchestral piece Nights Bright Days. Selected fellowships include the Japan Foundation's Uchida Fellowship (2004), a fellowship awarded to one artist from Europe, for a three-month period of study in Japan where Phillip researched gagaku, traditional Japanese court music.