NHAD banner
A non-profit organization dedicated to dental education on all levels  
Home Advisory Board Members Directory
FRIDAY –– DECEMBER 2, 2011

JOANNE PEARCE MARTIN

A Musical Journey Featuring Multiple Keyboard Instruments

Joanne Pearce Martin’s program will consist of an eclectic mix and personal reflection of her own musical journeys.  Her newest, and certainly freshest, musical adventure is learning to play the Theremin, a lovely expressive precursor to the synthesizer—she is the proud owner of a Moog “Etherwave Pro”—and she performed on it (standing in bare feet) for the first time in March 2010 at Zipper Hall in her Piano Spheres recital. 

Currently enjoying her ninth season as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Principal Keyboardist, Joanne Martin performs with the orchestra on multiple keyboard instruments including the celesta, various synthesizers, and occasionally a Mac computer, in addition to the ubiquitous piano.  With the L.A. Phil, she has made numerous solo appearances on piano, harpsichord, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ, appearing with such conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya. 

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms. Pearce Martin has been guest soloist with many other orchestras in the U.S. and abroad including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Florida West Coast Symphony, and England’s Huddersfield Philharmonic.

JOANNE PEARCE MARTIN BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH:  Ms. Pearce Martin has performed with renowned artists such as Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Iona Brown, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, Aaron Rosand, and Joseph Silverstein, to mention just a few. She has performed at dozens of summer music festivals and concert series spanning four continents.  Southern California audiences have followed her performances of new music and standards for years with the L.A. Phil’s Green Umbrella and Chamber Music Series, Camerata Pacifica, Pacific Serenades, Piano Spheres, Dilijan, South Bay, Ojai, Mainly Mozart, and San Louis Obispo Mozart Festivals. 
 
Joanne and her husband, Gavin Martin, continue to play together in the 2009/10 season as a two-piano team. She has also performed Mozart’s Double and Triple Piano Concertos with Jeffrey Kahane and the L.A. Chamber Orchestra. She has performed on all the major U.S. television networks and recorded commercially for Centaur, Summit and Albany records, as well as the Yamaha Disklavier Piano. 

Ms. Pearce Martin has been the subject of a half-hour feature on The Learning Channel. Her latest recording project, the solo CD Joanne Pearce Martin, Barefoot, was released on Yarlung Records in 2008 to critical acclaim.