Amplified Soul, Gabriela Martinez’s November Debut Solo CD for Delos, Features Works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Szymanowski, Visconti & Bates

This November 11, 2016, Delos releases pianist Gabriela Martinez’s debut solo album, Amplified Soul, a wide-ranging program featuring works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Szymanowski. She also pays homage to acclaimed contemporary composers Mason Bates and Dan Visconti, whose title selection, Amplified Soul (world premiere recording), was written for her.

In the liner notes, Ms. Martinez includes a letter to her listeners. In it she writes, “Words are not my strength; I have always expressed myself best through music. Music is an integral part of my life, and it colors my every feeling, thought, and desire. ...I recorded these pieces because I love them and because I want to share the magic that they embody. These pieces have all been part of the constant soundtrack in my life. They have amplified my soul.”

Ms. Martinez collaborated with Grammy Award-winning producer David Frost on the recording, and with Tim Martyn, senior audio engineer and technical director for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Festival.

AMPLIFIED SOUL
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Moment Musical in B-flat Minor, Op. 16, No. 1
Mason Bates: White Lies for Lomax
Dan Visconti: Amplified Soul (Written for the artist; world premiere recording)
Karol Szymanowski: Variations in B-flat Minor, Op. 3

Delos - Catalog No. DE3526; Release Date: November 11, 2016
Recorded December 2 - 4, 2014 at the Concert Hall of The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College,State University of New York on a Steinway piano.

A versatile, daring and insightful, artist, Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez is establishing a reputation on both the national and international stages for the lyricism of her playing, her compelling interpretations, and her elegant stage presence. An artist equally at home with both established and contemporary repertoire, by composers ranging from Beethoven and Rachmaninoff to Mason Bates and Adam Schoenberg, she has performed throughout the United States as well as in Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and Venezuela.

Season engagements of note include performances at the Puerto Rico Chamber Music Festival, a debut with Florida Orchestra, re-engagements with Stockton Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic, and the Midland Symphony Orchestra, and recitals on Washington DC’s Steinway Series at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, California’s Hemet Concert series and in Hawaii.

Ms. Martinez has performed with numerous orchestras and at distinguished venues nationally and abroad, including orchestral engagements with the Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, New Jersey, Tucson, Pacific, Fort Worth, and West Michigan symphony orchestras, and the National and Wisconsin philharmonic orchestras in the United States; Canada’s Victoria Symphony Orchestra; the Costa Rica National Symphony; Germany’s Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, MDR Rundfunkorchester, and Nurnberger Philharmoniker; and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela. Recent performance highlights have included debuts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Santa Rosa, Delaware and Jacksonville symphony orchestras.

Venues at which she has appeared include New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall; Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus; Dresden’s Semperoper; Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens; and Paris’s Palace of Versailles, as well as in recital at South Carolina’s Brooks Center for the Performing Arts; and both Merkin Concert Hall and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, and Canada’s Glenn Gould Studio. Ms. Martinez’s festival credits include the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, and Rockport festivals in the United States; Italy’s Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto); Switzerland’s Verbier Festival; the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier; and Japan’s Tokyo International Music Festival.

Gabriela Martinez’s accomplishments also include First Prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Dresden and semifinalist at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where she also received the Jury Discretionary Award. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees as a full scholarship student of Yoheved Kaplinsky. Ms. Martinez was a fellow of Carnegie Hall’s The Academy, and a member of its celebrated Ensemble Connect—formerly known as Ensemble ACJW, while concurrently working on her doctoral studies with Marco Antonio de Almeida in Halle, Germany.

Amplified Soul is available for pre-order through Amazon.com.

View the video of the title selection on http://icareifyoulisten.tv/dan-visconti-amplified-soul/

More details on Gabriela can be found at www.gabrielamartinezpiano.com

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