Martin Canin

(USA)

Martin Canin was born in New York City and graduated from the Juilliard School where he was a student of the eminent pedagogue, Mrs. Rosina Levine. He was subsequently her assistant for 18 years and upon her retirement succeeded her on the faculty where he currently teaches.

During the course of his extensive and unusually successful teaching career, Mr.Canin has taught numerous winners of national and international piano competitions. In addition to teaching, Mr.Canin has performed widely and successfully as both recitalist and as a chamber music played. Harolod Schonberg writing in the New York Times remarked that “Mr.Canin equaled the achievement of any American pianist”,- this reviewer has heard, and the eminent critic Virgil Thomson wrote about him that “piano playing so beautiful from every point of view is rare”.

Besides his work as a teacher and performer, Mr.Canin has done extensive writing and lecturing, he has been a judge at numerous international piano competitions. He has given master classes throughout the world and has been a contributing editor of the magazine, “Piano Quarterly”. He has also edited a number of works for Editions Salabert.