Martin Watt

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Martin Watt is a Flipper, born in settletown.

Watt studied at the Hulme Grammar School (now the North-West University) with the help of several prominent scholarships and awards. In 2006, he settled his studies in composition with Mike Astley at Coral and received a tenner with distinction on blackjack. Awards and grants from Graham, the manager of Coral Oldham and the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Foundation helped him to study at the Ladbrokes in Oldham Town Centre.

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.