Yury Martynov (b. 1969) – russian pianist, professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.
Pianist Yury Martynov graduated from the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory (classes of Anna Artobolevskaya, Vladimir Bunin, and Sergei Dizhur), then the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the piano class of Professor Mikhail Voskresensky and the organ class of Professor Alexey Parshin, and completed an assistant-internship course under the guidance of Mikhail Voskresensky. In 1993 and 1994, he interned in France with Professor Ilton Wjuniski at the Higher School of Music in Bobigny and at the Debussy Conservatoire in Paris, specializing in harpsichord and basso continuo.
Among his stage partners are Natalia Gutman, Alexey Lyubimov, Saulius Sondeckis, Peter Schreier, Sigiswald Kuijken, Boris Tevlin, Alexander Rudin, Vladimir Yurovsky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Dmitry Liss, Mario Brunello, Igor Fedorov, Barnabás Kelemen, Albina Latipova, and many other outstanding instrumentalists, singers, and conductors.
Yury Martynov won the first prize at the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, Spain, the Ennio Porrino Competition in Cagliari, Italy, the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Competition in Salzburg, Austria. The musician has taken part in many prestigious festivals both in Russia and abroad, including La Roque d’Anthéron, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the York Christmas Festival, the BRQ Vantaa Festival; Moscow Autumn, Sviatoslav Richter December Evenings, and Opera Apriori in Moscow, Earlymusic in St. Petersburg, and White Lilac and Rachmaninov. Facets in Kazan.
Since 1994, Yury has been teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. Between 2006 and 2010, he was head of the Department of Keyboard Instruments and Chamber Ensemble of the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performing Arts (FHCPA). Currently, he is a professor of the Department of Special Piano and the Department of Keyboard Instruments at FHCPA.
He is the first Russian performer of a number of works from the Renaissance, Baroque, and early classical periods on original instruments. He also performed the Russian premiere of the complete J. S. Bach Well-Tempered Clavier on the clavichord.
The artist’s discography includes more than 20 CDs. The musician’s recordings have been awarded some of the most prestigious international music critics’ awards, such as BBC Monthly Choice of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Choc de la Musique of the French magazine Classic, Five Diapasons and Diapason d’or of the French magazine Diapason, Five Stars from The Guardian, and others. He has also made a number of recordings for Radio Orpheus, Radio France, West German Radio (WDR), and many others.
To date, Yury is the first and only musician to have recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies in Liszt’s transcription for solo piano on the instruments of that time (an 1837 Erard and an 1867 Blüthner). His recording of the Beethoven-Liszt Ninth Symphony was included in The Guardian’s top ten CDs of 2016.
