Julian Martin

American pianist Julian Martin has been a faculty member at the Julliard School of Music College since 1999 and a faculty member at Julliard Pre-College since 2003. He is a winner of the 1975 Montevideo International Piano Competition and has won major prizes in the competitions. Ravel-Casadesus (now Cleveland International), Gina Bachauer and Kapell, as well as the Collaboration Prize at the 1982 Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition. He has toured North America, South America, Europe and Asia, and has recorded with violinist Berl Senofsky and the flutist Robert Willoughby. Martin has presented new works by composers Richard Rodney Bennett, Stephen Albert, Mario Davidovsky and Edward Barnes. He has been a member of the jury of the international piano competitions in Montreal, Iowa and Jaén, and of Stars of the 21st Century in Saint Petersburg.

Martin is a member of the original Gilmore Foundation (Kalamazoo) selection committee. He is founder and artistic director of the Gijón International Piano Festival (Asturias, Spain). He is on guest faculty at the Glenn Gould Professional School (Toronto), the Banff Center and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. He has given master classes in Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Korea, England, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan and Venezuela. He has been a professor at the Oberlin Conservatory (1982-87) and at the Peabody Institute (1987-2002). Martin completed his primary studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Leon Fleisher. She also studied with Guido Agosti in Italy and with Robert Casadesus and Nadia Boulanger in France.