Martin Williams studied jazz and saxophone with Gary Campbell at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Upon returning to the UK, he joined the BBC Big Band at the age of 24, and has featured in hundreds of broadcasts on BBC Radio 2's Big Band Special. Outside of the big band, Martin is one of London's most versatile and in-demand woodwind session players, appearing with some of the world’s biggest artists and many different ensembles in a wide variety of musical settings.
He has played on over 250 studio albums, including many number one and platinum albums; over 200 television shows; over 1,000 BBC Radio broadcasts; billions of dollars of Hollywood movies, as well as multiple Grammy and Oscar winning recordings. In 2010 he received aGrammy nomination for his participation in Jessye Norman's album Roots: My Life, My Song.
He studied composition and orchestration with with Joseph Horowitz and Edwin Roxburgh at the Royal College of Music, and has been prolific as a writer and arranger for concerts, broadcast, television, and library music.