143. Milena Martinez, piano

Sunday, December 15th, 2024 @2:30pm

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143.

Salon Concerts at Klavierhaus
Jed Distler, artistic director

presents

Milena Martinez, piano

Sunday, December 15th, 2024 @2:30pm

Live at Klavierhaus
790 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

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Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne, Op. 27 No. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 31 in A Flat Major, Op. 110
I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
II. Allegro molto
III. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro ma non troppo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata, K. 331
I. Andante grazioso

~ Intermission ~

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30
I. Allegro ma non tanto

Pelayo Ciria, secundo

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Milena Martínez is an award-winning Spanish pianist, currently based in New York City. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship awarded by La Caixa Foundation. In addition to providing career support, this scholarship advances Milena's research into developing and implementing new concepts for presenting classical music to broad and diverse audiences. This project builds on her previous research concerning how priorities in the arts evolve over time and profoundly affect the way musicians interpret and disseminate music amid shifting social expectations. Milena made her debut in 2022 at Madrid's National Music Auditorium, organized by the Scherzo Foundation, where she shared the stage with such prominent musicians as Arcadi Volodos and Joaquin Achúcarro. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, both as a soloist and with orchestras including the Symphonic Orchestra of Castille and Leon and Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra, and has participated in many music festivals; Mozarteum Summer Academie, Academie of Laussane, International Music Holland Sessions and PresJovem. In addition to her current postgraduate studies at Manhattan School of Music, she has studied at Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, Hochschule für Musik in Basel, and Conservatory van Amsterdam. She has worked with Ana Guijarro, Galina Eguiazarova, David Kuyken and Dr. Wael Farouk and she has received masterclasses of Ferenc Rados, Robert Levin, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Boris Berman, Gordan Nikolic, Stephan Kovacevich, Dmitri Alexeev, Julian Martin, among others. She is the first prize-winner at the VI Teresa Llacuna International Competition (2010), the XXX Marisa Montiel International Competition (2011), XVI Pedro Bote (2013), IX Ciudad del Ejido International Competition (2009), and XIX Jacinto Guerrero International Competition (2010), among others; she is the second prize-winner at the XV Infanta Cristina Loewe-Hazen Competition (2010). In 2018, she was awarded a Bösendorfer grand piano by the National Musical Foundation (NMF).