Martin West studied Music and Education at Monash and Melbourne Universities and has worked for the Victorian Education Department for over thirty years teaching instrumental, classroom and ensemble music and has been Instrumental Music Coordinator for the Southern Metropolitan Region. He has also taught for both the Faculty of Music and the Institute of Education at the University of Melbourne and currently holds the position of Head of Instrumental Music at McKinnon Secondary College.

Martin performs regularly as a woodwind music in stage bands, cover bands, chamber groups and theatre orchestras and has composed or arranged music for all these diverse ensembles.