CCSD Teacher Earns Statewide Music Teacher of the Year Award

Mr. Martin, third from left, is celebrated at the organization's annual conference.

A Cherokee County School District teacher has been named the state’s top music educator!

Creekview High School Choral Director Scott L. Martin received the Georgia Music Educators Association’s Music Teacher of the Year award, which was presented at organization’s annual conference recently held in Athens.  It is the highest honor awarded by the association and is presented annually to only one music educator of the more than 3,000 statewide.

Currently in his 27th year of teaching, Mr. Martin has led his choral students to multiple performances at Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) conferences, as well as state and regional American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conferences. The Creekview High School Camerata Treble Choir, under his direction, most recently was one of only 13 choral groups selected to perform at the same GMEA conference at which Mr. Martin was honored.

Mr. Martin earned his music degrees from the University of Georgia and Shorter College, and he is a member of GMEA, ACDA, and the National Association for Music Education.  He is an adjudicator for the GMEA Choral Performance Evaluation, past Georgia ACDA Repertoire and Resources Chair for high school choirs and past GMEA State Choral Chair.   

He regularly is invited to conduct various honor choirs across the state, serves as artistic director and principal conductor of the Cherokee Chorale community choir, and is co-founder of Orpheus Men’s Ensemble of Georgia, a choir comprised of music teachers and church musicians.  Mr. Martin will make his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2026 conducting Elaine Hagenburg’s “Illuminare.”

The Cherokee County School Board and Superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis will recognize Mr. Martin at an upcoming school board meeting.  

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