| Marko Martin was born in
Tallinn, Estonia in 1975. He began his musical studies at the age of
eight, justifying early promise by winning an International Competition
for Young Pianists in Czechoslovakia, aged fifteen, and a year later
gaining a similar distinction in Kharkov, Ukraine. In 1993 he entered
the Estonian Academy of Music to study with Peep Lassmann, a pupil of
the revered Russian pianist Emil Gilels, and in that same year won First
Prize at an International Competition in Riga, Latvia.In 1996 Marko came to London
to further his studies with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music,
where his outstanding talent was recognised by the offer of several
scholarships including one from the Corporation of London. |
| He was awarded
the Concert Recital Diploma - the Premier Prix of his College - a year
later. Amidst a string of competition and festival successes in Poland,
Finland, Estonia, Latvia and England, he made a major breakthrough in
1998 winning 4th Prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition
in the USA. As a recitalist and concerto soloist, Marko has toured Estonia,
Latvia, Scandinavia, Germany, France and the UK, with a repertoire including
concertos by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. A forthcoming highlight will
be his appearance at the Barbican Concert Hall in London playing Brahms'
Second Piano Concerto. |
Marko Martin