Evi Martyn
Evi Martyn (born November 11, 1941 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek-American international concert pianist, music scholar, music educator, author, and blogger about Hellenic culture.
Martyn's parents were Anastasios Giannatos, from the island of Cephalonia, Western Greece, and Sophia Aliyevitz from Odessa, Russia. Their wealth aided her pursuit of musical interests: she began studying piano at the age of three and quickly demonstrated an aptitude for it. By the age of six, she made her first public appearance in Greece playing Beethoven, Mozart, and Mendelssohn on the piano with a quartet. In 1952, she studied at the Athens Conservatoire and eventually graduated Magna Cum Laude with both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in music. Then, she continued at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich, Germany, earning a PhD in Piano Performance. She is proficient in six languages: Greek, Homeric Greek, French, German, English, and Italian.[citation needed]
In the mid-1960s, Martyn began performing in prestigious concert halls such as the Wigmore Hall in London,[1] the Salle Pleyel in Paris, Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, and Theater Gloria in Athens, working as a recitalist and soloist with symphony orchestras.[citation needed]
Between 1977 and 2006, she appeared with other orchestras, such as the Lamoureux Symphony of France, Reutlingen Symphony of Germany, South Coast Symphony of Huntington Beach, California, and the Southwest Symphony of Utah. She also performed at some benefit concerts. She played at the Abraham Goodman House in 1983, where the New York Times described her as "a good musician in rusty shape."[2]
She runs the Martyn School of Music in Los Alamitos, California.[3] She is also the author and producer of Anthology of Piano Literature, which became a teaching aid for many serious music educators across the United States.[citation needed] In addition, she has published several books through the AuthorHouse vanity press.
In 2012, she started a blog to support and perpetuate Hellenic culture.[4] She has been a guest speaker with James H. Fetzer of the Duluth University 911 Scholars.org radio broadcast series.[citation needed]
Martyn was included in the Hall of Fame of the American College of Musicians in 1989.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "London Diary for November". The Musical Times. 119 (1628): 913–916. October 1978. JSTOR 957837. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ Page, Tim (1983-01-30). "MUSIC: DEBUTS IN REVIEW". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
The pianist Evi Martyn is a good musician in rusty shape. One sensed a sharp intelligence and purpose to everything she played at the Abraham Goodman House Wednesday night. But her technique is fitful, and her dreams exceed the scope of her skills.
- ↑ Martyn, Evi. "Martyn School of Music". Manta.com. Manta.com.
- ↑ Martyn, Evi. "Hellenic Culture Advocacy". blogspot.com. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- "Greek Musician Honored" (Vol. 3, No. 501). Greece Today. Greece Today. April 1990.
Sigma Alpha Iota, University School of Music, Honorary Member 2013 Archived January 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- Martyn, Evi (Jan 1988). The Anthology of Piano Literature. Glendale, CA: Twin Oaks Productions, Inc. Search this book on
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