Philip Martin

'Pianist and composer Philip Martin was born in Dublin and studied with Mabel Swainson, Franz Reizenstein, Lennox Berkeley and Richard Rodney Bennett. He now lives in England and has established a busy career in Europe and the States, where he held the UK-US Bicentennial Arts Fellowship and has been a guest at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Summer School, giving master classes and recitals. His concert tours have taken him to countries as varied as Japan, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Canada and he has toured extensively in the United States.       

He has written numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works including two piano concertos, a harp concerto, five piano trios (three of which were composed for the Crawford Piano Trio), and a large number of songs. Recent major works include his first symphony and a third piano concerto for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. CDs of his music have been released on the Altarus and Marco Polo labels. He has recorded an eight - volume set of CDs for Hyperion Records of the music of the colourful 19th century American composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, as well as a critically acclaimed recording called “The Maidens Prayer” which is heard repeatedly on Classic FM.

His BBC and foreign broadcasts are many and he has also been a frequent visitor to the BBC Proms.  He teaches piano and composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire and is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Philip manages, unusually for today, to combine a busy solo career with that of a composer and teacher and these three elements of his musical personality are what make him such a force in musical life today.

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