PHILIP MARTIN - PIANIST		    



He gave the premiere of Samuel Barbers Piano Concerto in Ireland and subsequently played it on Radio 3 with three separate BBC orchestras and also

     
toured in Germany, France and Turkey with the same work.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 where besides holding a UK-US Bi-centennial Arts Fellowship, he has also held residencies

in various Universities and has been a guest of Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals.

        

His BBC and foreign broadcasts are many and he has also been a frequent visitor to the BBC Promenade concerts, the last of which was televised on “ Omnibus at the Proms”
     

PHILIP MARTIN 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.