Martin How

Martin John Richard How MBE (3 April 1931 – 25 July 2022) was a British composer and organist.

John How, who at the time was Rector of St. Nicholas Church, and Junie Katherine Reynolds, who died when How was a young boy.

After university How served in the army for two years, where he gained a National Service Commission, seeing the experience as invaluable for his later profession.

How spent most of his career with the Royal School of Church Music, where he was known principally as a choir trainer specialising in the training and motivation of young singers.

He also traveled widely in the United States of America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands as a choral conductor, accompanist, lecturer and adjudicator.