Twenty-six-year-old Spanish pianist Martín García García makes his Steinway Society – The Bay Area debut on Sunday, April 30 at 2:30 pm at Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto. Patrons will also be able to livestream the concert and view it for up to 48 hours afterward. Program notes and a recorded pre-concert lecture by classical music expert Dr. Gary Lemco are available at www.steinwaysociety.com
Single Tickets: $45 to $70
General Admission: $70/$60/$50
Senior & student: $65/$55/$45
Born in Gijón, Spain, Martín García García began his musical studies at the age of 5. He graduated from Reina Sofía School of Music, where he studied for more than a decade with Galina Eguiazarova. He received the prize for the Best Student of the Chair from Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain.
García has won first prize in several national and international competitions. He won the Sir Jeffrey Tate 2022 Prize, an award given every two years by the Hamburg Symphony to exceptionally talented young musicians. In 2021, he won the Cleveland International Piano Competition, and received third prize at the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition (and the special award for the Best Performance of a Concert). He was also awarded first place at the 2018 International Keyboard Institute & Festival, held in New York. His recent Carnegie Hall debut featured masterworks from the Romantic era.
For the past two years, García has resided in New York City, where he has been furthering his artistic training with the distinguished pianist Jerome Rose.
“an astonishing pianist of great musicality and indomitable technique” - critic on Garcia’s Carnegie Hall Debut