David Martins served as Master Lecturer in the School of Music at Boston University for 25 years, retiring in June 2023. During his tenure, he was Music Director of the Wind Ensemble (with whom he released three recordings) and taught Applied Clarinet, Chamber Music, and Graduate Conducting. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Music, where he was the Wind Ensemble Director and clarinet faculty for 35 years.

Professor Martins is the founding music director of both the Rivers Conservatory Youth Wind Ensemble (2014-2017) and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensembles where he was conductor of the senior division from 2002-2012, conducting the ensemble at Carnegie Hall. During his ten-year tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony (of which he is now Director Emeritus), the ensemble performed at the National Conference of the Association of Concert Bands and commissioned numerous new compositions. Since the summer of 1999, Mr. Martins has served on the faculty of Boston University Tanglewood Institute as Director of Wind Activities for the Young Artist Orchestra. Since the summer of 2005, he has also conducted the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Wind Ensemble.