Joel A. Martin is an award-winning pianist who has performed his innovative Jazzical compositions as well as jazz and classical pieces both domestically and abroad, having played in Paris, London, Finland, Germany, Switzerland and Japan, with a tour to Brazil in the offing. Among his classical credits, Martin has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony and Delaware Symphony. He has also given countless recitals in concert halls across the United States, including Purchase College Performing Arts Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Severance Hall, the Schomburg Library and the Phillips Collection.

Back in his formative, classical years, Martin was the youngest competitor in the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The next year, he was guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Conductor Zubin Mehta. He was also profiled and performed on the McGraw Hill Artist Showcase on WQXR-FM in New York. Martin received numerous prestigious grants, including awards from the ASTRAL Foundation of Philadelphia, the Eubie Blake Scholarship Fund of New York, the Lois J. Wright Memorial Foundation of Baltimore, the Musician's Emergency Fund of New York and Time magazine. In 1988 he was the recipient of the National Arts Club of New York's Lebow Award. Martin was also highlighted in Musical America's "People to Watch For in '89." In 1990 he was a SONY Innovators Awards finalist for music and in 1992 received the Concert Artist Guild two-year Career Development Fellowship.

Martin has played numerous Jazzical concerts in NYC and Westchester, NY. Among his jazz credentials, Joel A. Martin has played with legendary drummer Chico Hamilton, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist/composer Hale Smith, bassist Brian Torff, and currently plays and directs the Cab Calloway Orchestra at Birdland in NYC. He is also Assistant Music Director/pianist for the Boys Choir of Harlem, and has appeared on Broadway in The Ride Down Mount Morgan with Patrick Stewart and in The Wild Party with Eartha Kitt. He has also been featured on BET (Black Entertainment Television) in "BET on Jazz" and performed his original Jazzical compositions at the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, Fez and the New Village Gate 52 in New York, at Snug Harbor, and at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with jazz clarinet
legend Alvin Batiste.

As a chamber musician, he toured throughout the world with renowned clarinetist Esther Lamneck, appeared as special guest with the Emerson String Quartet, and performed over 400 chamber concerts throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic states. As soloist, he performed for French President Francois Mitterand at l'Opera Comique in 1993, at Kaukametsa Hall in Finland, and in Japan before government officials.

As a music educator, Martin has held arts-in-education residencies at the Oklahoma City Public School, sponsored by the Black Liberation Arts Center. He has lectured and performed in countless public school systems, colleges and universities across the country, ranging from Purchase College in Westchester County, NY to inner city schools in Maryland, Connecticut and Texas.

SELECT PAST PERFORMANCES
Joel A. Martin/Jazzical have been featured "Bet on Jazz" for BET (Black Entertainment Television); The Guggenheim Museum; Lincoln Center; Fez and the New Village Gate 52, NYC; Snug Harbor; the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with jazz clarinet
legend Alvin Batiste.

October 21 at 3 PM
Jazzical mini-concert New Rochelle Public Library, NY

October 20 at 8 PM
Featured pianist/musical director with Calloway Brooks and the Cab Calloway Orchestra Eubie Blake Cultural Arts Center, Baltimore, MD

October 16, 2000
Jazzical/Classical Concert Monday in the Dark with George Concert Series Westchester Broadway Theater, Elmsford, NY Fundraising concert for benefit of the Christopher Reeves Foundation, Westchester Food Pantry et al.

September 27, 2000 at 5-8 PM
Jazzical benefit performance Kitchawan Institute Gala Opening 2000 Ossining, NY

August, 2000
Assistant Conductor/Pianist Three Mo' Tenors concert/workshop, Produced by Marion Caffey and Trawick Artists DiCapo Theater, NYC.

July-August, 2000
Pianist/actor for Arthur Miller's "The Road Down Mount Morgan" starring Patrick Stewart Broadway, NYC

June 23, 2000
Jazzical concert The Triad Cabaret House, NYC

June, 2000
Subsitute pianist for "The Wild Party" starring Eartha Kitt and Mandy Patinkin Broadway, NYC

April, 17, 2000
Featured artist for the Gracie Awards Produced by the American Women of Radio and Television NYC

August, 2000
Classical and Jazzical recital Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities
(Sun Valley, Idaho)

August-October, 1997
Musical Director/arranger/composer Broadway musical "Pretty Baby," based on the 1979 Paramount/Louis Malle film Le Petit Theatre, New Orleans, LA

September 1995-96
Featured artist National tour of Hale Smith's "Ask Your Momma: Twelve Moods for Jazz Orchestra and Narrator"

SELECT CLASSICAL RECITALS
1994-85, Severance Hall (Cleveland, Ohio)
1992, Kaukametsa Hall (Finland)
1991-92, l'Opera Commique (Paris)
1984-85, Performing Arts Center at
Purchase College, (New York)
1979, 1980, 1981, Kennedy Center
1980's, The Phillips Collection
(Washington, DC)
1980's, WQXR-FM (NY) - McGraw/Hill
Artist Showcase
1980's, Two national tours of Germany, London and Japan

ORCHESTRAL APPEARANCES
New York Philharmonic,
Zubin Mehta, Conductor
Philadelphia Orchestra;
William Smith, Conductor
Baltimore Symphony; Alan Balter, Conductor
Delaware Symphony,
Stephen Gunzenhauser, Conductor

EDUCATION
Purchase College (New York) - 1984-92
Hartt School of Music - 1983-84
Munich Conservatory - 1983
Tanglewood Institute - 1982

TEACHERS
Anthony Newman, Natalie Hinderas, Raymond Hanson, Moshe Paranov,
and David Brown

ARTS-IN-EDUCATION
September 2001-2002 Artist in Residency at Harrison High School, Harrison, NY. Wrote several compositions for the High School choir and select jazz vocal ensemble. Conducted spring musical Peter Pan and gave several lecture demonstrations
on jazz improvisation.

May, 2002
Briarcliff High School Music,
Westchester County, NY
Commissioned Jazzical composition for string orchestra/jazz band. World premiere during the Music & Art Festival in April, 2003 in Briarcliff Manor, NY

October 31, 2000
Blue Mountain Middle School, Westchester County, NY Jazzical Arts in Education Program "Excellence in Education Day"

October 21, 2000
Eubie Blake Cultural Center Gala week, Baltimore, Maryland Concert and Lecture

May, 2000
Harrison High School, Westchester County, NY Concert featuring specially commissioned Jazzical compositions

February. 6, 2000
Tuesday Morning Music Club Junior Extension Club of Springfield, Massachusetts Featured performing artist and guest lecturer

December, 1999
Harrison High School, Westchester County, NY Concert featuring specially commissioned Jazzical compositions

1999-00 Academic Year
Westchester Arts Council grant for Arts-in-Education Developed various programs for Arts Partners Schools (short-term school residencies); Arts Partners Community (short/long-term development arts); and Arts Excel (long-term curriculum-integrated
school residencies)

1999-00 Academic Year
The Friends of Music and Art of Bedford/Mt. Kisco Public School Systems Commissioned to compose, conduct and perform two Jazzical selections for Fox Lane High School jazz band and combined elementary/middle/high
school chorus

1998
Hall Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Bridgeport, Connecticut Conducted short-term Arts-in-Education residency

1998-99 Academic Year
Harrison High School, Westchester County, NY Lecture series and performances of Jazzical compositions

1992-97 Academic Years
Pleasantville High School, Westchester County, NY Assisted Music Director, conducted Arts-in-Education lecture series

1986-92 Academic Years
"Jazz, Classical, Rock: Are they Related?" Lecture/demonstration, presented by the Prompters of Purchase College, New York Westchester County and Putnam County Public Schools, NY

1987 Academic Year
Oklahoma City Public/Private School Systems Lectures and performances series Sponsored by Black Liberation Arts Center and Oklahoma State Commission on the Arts

1985 Academic Year
Country Day School System, Fort Worth, Texas Lecture and performance series

1984-85 Academic Year
Greater Hartford Public School System, Connecticut Conducted school workshops for Hartt School of Music with Moshe Paranov (school founder)

1982
Governor's Conference for Youth and Children, Salisbury, Maryland Guest lecturer and performer

1980 Academic Year
Urban Services Cultural Arts Project, Baltimore, Maryland Performed and conducted workshops/lectures and conducted the musical, "Godspell"

HONORS/GRANTS/DISTINCTIONS
Jazzical profile in October 2000 NY Times
Profiled in Time Magazine, Keyboard Classics Magazine, Musical America

2000-01 Westchester Arts Council grant for Arts-in-Education 1999-00 Westchester Arts Council grant for Arts-in-Education

1992-94 - Concert Artist Guild - Two-Year Career Development Fellowship

1985-94 - Grants from Time Magazine;
Musicians Emergency Fund of New York;
National Arts Club of New York;
ASTRAL Foundation of Philadelphia Lois J. Wright Memorial Foundation of Baltimore;
Eubie Blake Scholarship Fund of New York
Theodore Presser Foundation of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

1990 - SONY Innovators Award
-Finalist for Music

1989 - Musical America's "People To Watch For in '89"

1988 - Lebow Award For Piano - First Prize, National Arts Club of New York

1985 - Youngest competitor in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

1983 - Received Mayor's Proclamation (Baltimore, Maryland) for "Major Contribution to the Arts and Art-in-Education"

1981 - Merit Citation from the Governor of Maryland for "Excellence in the Arts"