Karen E Martin

A native of Los Angeles, composer Karen Martin studied classical piano and orchestration in London England. She has performed her compositions in concert in England, Austria and Italy.

She returned to Los Angeles, receiving an MFA in Music at CalArts where she was mentored by Pulitzer Prize winner Mel Powell, the founder of their Music program.  

Her stage work includes composing and producing multimedia productions at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the Odyssey Theatre, and several stage productions for Jonathan Sanger, a multiple Oscar winning producer.

She has scored a number of independent films which have screened on Showtime and Sci-Fi Channel, one of which won the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film Award at Comic-Con.  Two of the scores were finalist at the Moondance film competition.  One of her most recent films 'Charlie and the Hunt', screened at the Cannes Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, Slamdance Film Festival and was winner of the Best Live Action Short from the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. 

Karen was invited to the Sundance Composers Lab and became a Sundance Fellow.  

She is a member of director Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Crew.