Martin Jarvis

Jarvis was awarded a PhD from Charles Darwin University based on his research, and presented his findings at an October 2008 meeting of the International Symposium on the Forensic Sciences in Melbourne. Jarvis himself has acknowledged about his conclusions and about the general portrayal of Anna Magdalena Bach's role in music history, "My conclusions may not be wholly accurate, but the way in which tradition has put Anna Magdalena into this pathetic role [as merely the copyist] ... is rubbish." Jarvis published the book Written by Mrs Bach in 2011; it was made into a documentary film in 2014.

Jarvis was a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2007 Australia Day Honours.

Jarvis founded the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, which gave its first concert in 1989 - he ended his term as its artistic director at the end of 2009. Jarvis is also a professor and lecturer of music at Charles Darwin University.

He won a scholarship to the Welsh College of Music, Cardiff, where he studied violin under Garfield Phillips, concertmaster of the BBC Welsh Orchestra. He studied 1971–75 at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under Clarence Myerscough for violin and Winifred Copperwheat for viola.

Martin Jarvis OAM (born 17 September 1951, Ebbw Vale, Wales) is an Australian violinist and viola player, founder of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, and professor and lecturer of music at Charles Darwin University.