Joao Carlos Martins

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He is known as a great interpreter of Bach and has collected his complete keyboard works. Martins has been active as the Boston Symphony's leading pianist, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and other ensembles for decades. "Maestro Martins has lived a life of renown, pain, tenacity, and triumph," the New York Times wrote.

After being marred by injuries and accidents, he successfully reimagined himself as a conductor, with hundreds of performances around the world, including acclaimed concerts at Carnegie Hall. He is a conductor at the English Chamber Orchestra and the Bachiana Filarmonica Orchestra. In Latin America, he has also established social services for children under the age of 6.

Early life

Martins, a child, started playing the piano with José Kliass at the age of eight. He also won a competition sponsored by the Bach Society of Brazil the following year. "With this tone, as well as his finger control, he might be extremely influential for the history of piano playing," Alfred Cortot said shortly thereafter.

He was one of the first Latin Americans to be invited to attend the prestigious Casals Music Festival in Puerto Rico at the age of 18. When Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier appeared in Washington, D.C., one of his specialties, he grew in 1961. The reviewers were ecstatic.

He was already well-known in Brazil as a youth prodigy, and his name was quickly distributed around the world. He made his New York debut three years ago, followed by appearances with major orchestras in the United States and recitals around the world, including sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center).

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Performing and conducting career

Audio recordings of Book I & II of the Well-Tempered Clavier for the Connoisseur Society's Connoisseur Society, followed shortly by Alberto Ginastera's Piano Concerto with Martins and the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf, a widely distributed first recording of this work that debuted on Billboard's best seller list for weeks. He has performed at the Peabody Mason Concert Series and the Boston Symphony as a regular.

Martins dedicated himself to recording Bach's complete keyboard works on the Concord Concerto and Labor Records labels between 1979 and 1998. His collection of Bach's complete keyboard works, as well as the most extensive collection of Bach keyboard recordings by a single pianist, has resulted in a number of influential music journals around the world, including feature articles and cover stories.

In 1981, he was appointed Brazil's Culture Minister.

Martins has demonstrated remarkable perseverance and determination despite being plagued by injuries and setbacks throughout his mercurial career. Martins was struck by two thugs while visiting Bulgaria in 1995, injuring his skull and brain, as well as missing the use of his right arm. He appeared in Carnegie Hall in 1996 as the soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra, undergoing multiple treatments, including a new version of biofeedback surgery on his right arm.

In early 2000, he underwent an unsuccessful operation in his right hand, which rendered his hand practically useless. Martins continued to play with his left hand and one finger of the right hand rather than resigning completely from the piano.

Despite limited hand-movements, after his career as a pianist ended due to injuries in his left hand that later became apparent, he switched to conducting. Since then, he has appeared at hundreds of shows around the world, including critically acclaimed concerts at Carnegie Hall.

With the help of a pair of bionic gloves, he returned to playing with both hands in 2020. They were especially created for him by Brazilian industrial designer Ubiratan Bizarro Costa.

"His technique sends fireworks in all directions," New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg said, "he does everything with extraordinary élan." Martins' Bach was described as "the most exciting player of Bach on the modern piano to emerge after Glenn Gould," according to the Boston Globe, "in the same vein as Furtwängler's Beethoven or Bernstein's Brahms." The pianist has put such a vivid stamp on the work that it no longer belongs to the composer's alone...it's absolutely amazing."

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