He first gained worldwide renown after winning the major organ competitions of Chartres and NYACOP.
He earned his DMA from University of Michigan, where he studied with Robert Glasgow.
Among his many awards and honors are first place at the international Grand Prix de Chartres in 1986 and first prize in 1992 at the National Young Artists's Competition in Organ Performance, held by the American Guild of Organists.
Additionally, in the past fifteen years he has acquired considerable expertise in the field of early music and performance practice, taking a sabbatical in 1999 to study with Harald Vogel in North Germany.
His interest in early music was the driving force behind the installation of the noteworthy meantone-temperament organ in Yale University's Marquand Chapel, constructed and installed by Taylor and Boody in the summer of 2007. https://ism.yale.edu/people/martin-jean