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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS— Internationally acclaimed pianist Gabriela Martinez will be the featured artist at Tarleton State University’s 2008 Piano Festival, Fri., Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Theater. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Martinez has already amassed an impressive list of recital, concerto and chamber music performance credits. Since making her orchestral debut at age 7, Martinez has appeared as soloist with the New Jersey, Fort Worth, Pacific and San Francisco symphonies. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Symphonisches Staatsorchester Halle, and Tivoli Philharmonic and regularly performs with the Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel.
She has performed under the batons of Lawrence Foster, James Gaffigan, Dirk Brosse, Klauspeter Seibel, Giordano Bellincampi, Guillermo Figueroa, David Machado, Anne Manson, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Egmon Colomer as well as Pedro and Cristobal Halffter, among others.
Martinez has performed at Carnegie, Avery Fisher, and Alice Tully Halls, Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg; Semperoper in Dresden, Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, the Verbier Festival, Snow and Symphony Festival in St. Moritz, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Festival dei Due Mondi, The International Holland Music Sessions and the Mostly Mozart and Tokyo International Music festivals. She has concertized as soloist and chamber musician in more than 50 concert halls in the United States and Germany, as well as in Salzburg, Copenhagen, St. Moritz, Verbier, Sendai, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Montpellier, Rome, Venice, London, Spoleto, Brussels, Caracas and Bogota.
Martinez won first prize at the 2003 Anton Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Dresden and was a semifinalist at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, where she also received a Jury Discretionary Award. Finally, she has been a featured artist on MDR Kultur, NHK, Radio France, RAI, National Public Radio, CNN, Deutsche Welle, PBS, 60 minutes, ABC and From the Top.
Martinez earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School as a full scholarship student of Yoheved Kaplinsky and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Halle, Germany, with Professor Marco Antonio de Almeida.
In addition to her performance, Martinez will hold a master class for Tarleton and visiting piano students on Sat., Oct. 11, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Other related piano events will also be held later in the afternoon.
For more information on Martinez’s performance and the master class, contact Dr. Denise Spotz, assistant professor of piano at (254) 968-9241 or via e-mail at spotz@tarleton.edu.
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