Martin Gerard James Neary LVO is an English organist and choral conductor.
Neary was born in London in 1940 and was a chorister of the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace from age eight, singing at the christening of Charles III in 1948 and the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. He attended the City of London School.
He went on to read theology and music at Cambridge University, where he was organ scholar at Gonville and Caius College. He was Organist and Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral from 1972 to 1988, and Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey from 1988 to 1998. In 1984 he was Artist-in-Residence at the University of California at Davis.
The years at Winchester were especially innovative. In addition to extending the traditional choral repertoire, Dr Neary commissioned new works from Jonathan Harvey and, in particular, John Tavener.