Vincent Martin, bass-baritone — This talented baritone is a sensitive, yet commanding interpreter of a wide variety of vocal literature. His oratorio experience includes works by Vaughan Williams, Mozart, Bach, Händel, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, DuBois and Orff, as well as the west Coast and European premieres of Lux Sancta by Daniel Burton. Active in sacred music since 1980, he is the baritone soloist with the Chancel Choir at La Jolla Presbyterian Church in Southern California. As a soloist at First United Methodist Church of San Diego he toured Germany in 1993 giving concerts with members of the Chancel Choir of that church.

Mr. Martin has performed roles in the Grossmont College Opera Theatres productions of The Merry Widow, Hänsel and Gretel, Carmen, and Trouble in Tahiti by Leonard Bernstein. Other stage credits include roles with San Diego Comic Opera in The Mikado, The Gondoliers, Cox and Box and Trial by Jury. A veteran performer with San Diego Opera since 1991 he understudied the roles of The Merchant and The Landowner in the world premier of Myron Finks The Conquistador in 1997, and by the end of the 2011 season had logged sixty-two productions with San Diego Opera Chorus.

Vincent has been a frequent guest soloist with two professional vocal ensembles: Musica Vitale — an intimate chamber chorale which presents exquisite concerts in the San Diego area, and Vox Nobili — an Elizabethan-costumed madrigal group which collaborates often with the San Diego Shakespeare Society and which is sought after by many renaissance faires all over Southern California. 

Equally at home with opera, oratorio and vocal jazz (as can be heard in the Something for Everyone concert), versatility is his forté. In 1999, after having competed against hundreds of singers county-wide, in Karaoke Star magazine’s Entertainer of The Year contest, he was one of only six finalists in the country & western category, specializing in the music of Garth Brooks.