RPO Player David FC Johnson holding his double bass and smiling at the camera
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Associate Double Bass

Having started the bass aged 10 in North Wales, Martin continued his studies at Guildhall under Kevin Rundell and Tim Gibbs. During this time he began to play freelance, working with the John Wilson Orchestra, BBC NOW, RPO and RSC. In his varied career he has since played with the LPO, Philharmonia and Aurora orchestras, been the guest principal bass at Manchester Camerata and the London Mozart Players, performed chamber music with Berkeley Ensemble and Ensemble Cymru, toured the UK in Les Miserables, and was an actor-musician in Charing Cross Theatre's Ragtime.

If you can't find him behind a bass, then he’ll be converting his next van, surfing, or climbing a mountain.

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