Alberto Martínez was born in the city
of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain ) the 14 of August, 1968.
Musical diplomas are as follows:
- Profesor of Classical Harmony, Counterpoint, Fuge and
Composition .
- Profesor of Flute
- Profesor of Musical Language, Theory , Transposition
and Musical Sight
reading
He studied composition with the Profesors Mr.
Xavier Zoghbi , Mr. Daniel Roca and Mr. Juan José Falcón Sanabria
in the Conservatory of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and also composed pop songs.
He studied flute with profesors Mr Pedro de Armas and Mrs Charina Quintana.
He received seminar classes of Mr. Jaime Martin, solo flute of Academy of
St. Martin in the Fields, and studied in the Jazz Aula of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria with the profesors Mr. Luis Vecchio and Mr . José Carlos Diaz
.
He was profesor of a bassical Jazz harmony course called " Panorama for
musical beginers " of the Aula of Music , organized by the University
of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria . He was profesor of a Harmony course in the
Music School of the island of La Palma ; member of SGAE (Spanish society of
authors) and Promuscan ( Society for the promotion of music . Promuscan have
members related to composition, performing, managers and critics.) Promuscan
had organized concerts/classes with the Maestros Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner
Henze , Anton García Abril , Juan Hidalgo and Zulema de la Cruz. Alberto
was amember of the spanish folk group Mestisay as a keyboard player and toured
with them in their South American tour on 1991 ( Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela
).
As composer his works have been played in the following venues:
- MUSEO CANARIO
"Sonatine for flute and piano "
"Suite Hiperstésica " for piano
"Sonata for cello and piano "
"Palmeral Sol" for alto sax, piano and bass
- CASA DE COLON
"Palmeral Sol "
- CONSERVATORY OF LAS PALMAS AUDITORIUM
"Sonata for cello and piano"
- CONSERVATORY OF TENERIFE AUDITORIUM
"Sonata for cello and piano"
- ALFREDO KRAUS AUDITORIUM (Chamber music auditorium)
"Gyx" for violin and piano (2 times )
"Sonata for cello and piano"
"Suite hiperstésica" for piano
"Celeste Gloria" for piano ( in the chamber music program of the Canary
Islands Music Festival , January 2000) .
He attended various seminars on Composition and recently has been commisioned to investigate the Orleans Archive (Royal family Collection) by the spanish institution el Museo Canario and its Musicology Department . The president of this department is Dr. Lothar Siemens , ex-president of the Spanish Society of Musicology . Recently 3 pieces for flute of the XIX century have been bring back to life by Alberto Martínez. These are very rare pieces by spanish authors Joaquin Gaztambide and Pedro Albeniz .
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