Martín García García
Martín García García has appeared in important venues across Europe, America, and Asia, receiving highly positive reviews from figures like Vladimir Krainev, Dmitri Alexeev, Arcadi Volodos, Dimitri Bashkirov, Joaquín Achúcarro, and Tatiana Copeland (niece of Sergei Rachmaninov). The Spanish pianist has won first prizes in numerous international and national piano competitions, with his victory at the 2021 Cleveland International Piano Competition and third place at the 2021 International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw being particularly noteworthy. In the latter competition, he also received the special award from the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra for the best concerto performance.
Martín García García began his piano studies at the age of five with teachers Natalia Mazoun and Ilya Goldfarb. For a decade he studied under Galina Eguiazarova at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, where he was honoured as the department's most outstanding student by Her Majesty Queen Sofía. He also holds a master’s degree in piano from the Mannes School of Music in New York, where he studied with the renowned pianist Jerome Rose for three years.
The year 2022 marked an extraordinary turning point in Martín García García’s career, with over 70 concerts worldwide, performing in iconic venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. 2024 has begun with collaborations such as Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev or Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and Vasily Petrenko. Additionally, 2024 will see the release of his second album, Even-Tide, recorded at Nowa Miodowa Concert Hall in Warsaw, with works by Fryderyk Chopin and Johannes Brahms. It will be available on digital music platforms.
Martín García García, who holds a strong sense of responsibility and a commitment to serving humanity, approaches each concert with a deep purpose. Regardless of the venue’s size or the audience, he believes that there is a profound content to offer to each person who has chosen to come and listen.
[2024]