Marya Martin - DipMus
Virtuoso flute player Marya Martin has had a remarkable career both as a performer and teacher. While studying for a Diploma of Music at The University of Auckland, she had lessons with Richard Giese, then principal flute in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
After graduating in 1976, Marya was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council grant to study at Yale University in the United States, graduating with a Masters degree in 1979. She then moved to Paris to study with Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Nationale Superieur Conservatoire de Paris and with Sir James Galway in Lucerne, Switzerland, widely considered to be the two international icons of flute playing.
The only flautist ever to be the top prizewinner in the New York Naumburg International Competition, the Munich International Competition, the Jean-Pierre Rampal International Competition, the Young Concert Artists' International Competition and the Concert Artists' Guild, all within two years, Marya made her New York debut in 1980. Since then, she has enjoyed a distinguished career as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. In 1984, she founded the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival which, under her artistic direction, has done much to foster the development of chamber music presented in historically appropriate settings.
Marya has since performed throughout the world including appearances at the Royal Albert and Wigmore Halls in London; the Sydney Opera House; Casals Hall in Tokyo, and venues in Paris, Australia and New Zealand, in addition to the major halls in the US, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Washington's Kennedy Centre. In 1983, she undertook a successful tour of New Zealand, playing duo concerts with Sir James Galway. She has made many chamber music appearances and has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Orion Master Recording, Arabesque, New World Records, Well-Tempered Productions, Albany Records and Kiwi (Pacific) Records (NZ).
Marya frequently appears on juries of international competitions, serves on the board of Young Concert Artists, and is on the Faculty of The Manhattan School of Music, New York, teaching flute, chamber and woodwind ensembles.
Marya received a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005.
