Martin Watt

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Martin Watt is a South African classical music composer.

Watt studied at the Potchefstroom University (now the North-West University) with the help of several prominent scholarships and awards. In 1993 he continued his studies in composition with Peter Klatzow at UCT and received an M.Mus with distinction. Awards and grants from SAMRO, the Foundation for the Creative Arts, and the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Foundation helped him to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Professor Paul Patterson, gaining an Advanced Diploma in Composition and winning the prestigious Charles Lucas Prize.

On returning to South Africa, he became a parttime lecturer in music theory in the Department of Music of the University of Pretoria, where he obtained a D.Mus in 1996.

He was a post-doctoral fellow there from 1998-2000, researching in historical musicology. From 2000-3 he was a lecturer in the music division of the Witwatersrand School of Arts (see University of Witwatersrand), and in 2004 he went back to the North-West University in Potchefstroom as senior lecturer in music theory, composition and music technology.