Martin Canin
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Martin Canin was born in New York City and is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he was a student of, and subsequently an assistant to the eminent pedagogue, Mme. Rosina Lhevinne. He was appointed to the faculty in 1972 and he continues to teach a class of highly gifted students, many of whom have been winners of major national and international competitions. In addition to his work at Juilliard, he served on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook for 30 years and he continues to teach on the summer faculty of the Bowdoin College Festival and School in Brunswick, Maine.
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 player. Harold 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 Virgi. I Thompson 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 and he has been a judge at numerous international competitions in Europe, Asia and the United States. He has given master classes throughout the world and has also been a contributing editor of the magazine, "Piano Quarterly". He has also edited a number of works for Editions Salabert.