Eric L. Martin

Providing more than 25 years of continuous service, Eric L. Martin was the Chief Executive Officer of Music for All (MFA). Mr. Martin served first on Music for All’s Board of Directors, followed by positions as MFA’s Associate Executive Director, then Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, until being appointed as CEO in 2010, a role in which he served until April 2020. He currently serves as Interim President of ScholarshipAuditions.com. 

During his tenure as Music for All’s CEO, Mr. Martin championed initiatives that strengthened the organization’s fiscal position, expanded its organizational capacity, and consistently increased the number of students, teachers, and others directly served by Music for All. 

Mr. Martin is a member of several Indianapolis and Indiana boards of directors. He is an honors graduate of Dartmouth College. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and has been admitted by exam to the District of Columbia and State of Georgia bar associations. 

A Certified Festivals and Events Executive, he is Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Festivals and Events Association and an inductee into the Miller Brewing Hall of Fame, the highest honor awarded by IFEA. In August, Mr. Martin received the 2020 Outstanding PAS Supporter Award from the Percussive Arts Society. 

Prior to joining Music for All, Mr. Martin earned national event production credits for some of America’s largest events, including the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games, the World University Games, San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade, Philadelphia’s Bicentennial Parade, and the “Operation Welcome Home” Ticker Tape Parade in New York, celebrating America’s victory in the first Persian Gulf War. In 1993, Mr. Martin won a Regional Emmy® for his production of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday Parade on SuperStation TBS.

A native of Greenville, MS, Mr. Martin participated instrumental music programs throughout high school and college. In 1971, he was one of the first African Americans inducted into the Greenville High School Hall of Fame.