Born in Ohio, USA, Martin grew up in Germany with mom and dad being classical violinists, receiving drum lessons from age 6, whilst developing self-taught piano, guitar and bass skills playing in school and church bands. Leaving home at age 16 to join his first rock band he went on to earn a professional music education including studies at Berklee, Boston, USA, the Conservartory of Enschede, NL, a diploma as a Jazz-Musician from the School of Music and Perf. Arts Mannheim and a BA in music production from the Popakademie Mannheim, where he wrote and produced his first LP for indie-pop duo anstatt Blumen.
After teaching drums, playing in and producing several bands from all genres he worked as an in-house producer of Austrias largest commercial studio in Vienna until game score giant dynamedion welcomed him to their team of external composers in 2014.

Since then he's scored TV series like Tatort, Polizeiruf 110, Block B, Milk & Honey, Der König von Palma and feature films as The Accidental Rebel, the blind spot or real life.

As a Drummer, keyboarder, songwriter, producer and arranger he has contributed to acts such as Revolverheld, Max Giesinger, L'aupaire, JulianLePlay, Varley, Cassandra Steen, Madeline Juno, Raum27, All The Luck In The World and many others.

2020 was the time to make room for some of his own artistic work leading to release "Circles EP" in 2020 and "Utopian Traveller" in 2023, followed by the solo Piano EP "Utopian Traveller (Treehouse Piano Session)" early 2024, whilst releasing collaborations with Artists KLUR, LUCHS, ILLUMININE and APARDE.

Releases from Utopian Traveler have been featured on BBC6 by Ólafur Arnalds as well as Spotify's "not quite classical", "ambient electronica" and Apple Music's "piano chill".

Having his grand piano placed seamlessly next to the production desk, Martin works on finding a unique sound for every theme he writes. Emerging from this work Martins solo material presents his very own artistic vision of beats and soundscapes, to embody some of the many ideas based on pictures wich haven't been captured on film yet…