Pianist Julian Martin, distinguished professor of Piano at The Juilliard School, has been one of America’s foremost pedagogues for four decades. His professional career began with major prizes from Cleveland, Kapell, and Montevideo competitions.

Martin has served on the juries of the Montreal, Casagrande, Jaén Valladolid, Hilton Head, Iowa, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Palm Springs, St. Petersburg, Seattle, and Uribe international competitions, and sat on the original selection committee of the Gilmore Foundation.

In 1999, Martin founded the Gijón International Piano Festival in Asturias, serving as Artistic Director until 2012. That same year, he established the Valencia International Piano Academy. A regular of the Aspen, Bowdoin, Gijón, and Ravinia festivals, he has presented residencies at Banff Centre, Music Academy of the West, Seoul National University, Glenn Gould Professional School in Toronto, and the Conservatoire in Geneva, and Tel-Hai, with master classes throughout the Americas, Germany, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the U.K., Switzerland and Taiwan.

Formerly on the faculties of Oberlin and Peabody Conservatories, he was appointed to the Juilliard School in 1999.