Francisco Martí
Francisco Martí currently works as collaborative pianist at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and as pianist in the Barcelona Modern Ensemble - combining this activity with projects of chamber music and contemporary music around Europe.
He studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the city he resides in.
Born in Yecla, Murcia, in 1996. At the age of five, he began studying piano at a private level with the teacher María Ángeles Soria. Later on he studied the Professional Degree at the Music Conservatory of Villena, Alicante, with professor José Fernando Sirera obtaining the Special Prize for the Professional Degree. In 2014 he began his Higher Degree at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya as a student of Jean-François Dichamp, with whom he graduated in 2018, while receiving classes from the Italian pianist and musicologist Luca Chiantore.
In 2016 he obtained the second prize in the contest held by the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. In 2016/2017 he carried out his higher studies in Stuttgart, Germany, within the framework of an Erasmus grant with Professor Nicolas Hodges. This experience allowed him to perform several concerts in that area, some of them along with contemporary music groups.
He has taken part four times in the International Academy of Contemporary Music held in Strasbourg and directed by the Ensemble Linea, being chosen as a guest artist together with his ensemble 'Innocu Project' for the 2018 call. In September 2019 he had his first official collaboration with this ensemble at the George Enescu Festival in Romania.
In 2019, he released his first album with solo piano and four-hand piano works -alongside with Carolina Santiago- entitled ‘The piano, reflection of the soul’ and published by the AAMY.
During the years 2019/2020 he worked as collaborative pianist in the saxophone studio at the Conservatori Superior de música de les Illes Balears.
He has taken part as accompanist in certain international academies and competitions such as the Adolphe Sax International Competition and the Première Académie International de Saxophone d’Argenton-Sur-Creuse 2021 organised by the Ensemble Squillante.
Alongside the pianist Carolina Santiago, he creates Syntagma Piano Duo, a piano duo which is invited on a regular basis to festivals and seasons of contemporary music such as the Barcelona Modern International Composition Course and the OUT·SIDE in Barcelona, the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in the Netherlands, the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent, Belgium, or the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal among others.
He has also performed with orchestras such as the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (German Youth Philharmonic Orchestra) in Germany and Slovakia and with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (National Catalan Orchestra) in Spain.
He has taken part in the world of the music theatre within projects such as The Phantom of the Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar, but also in premieres of pieces for symphonic band and metal band such as the piece Carmen by the Spanish guitarist Juan Saurín.