 Dr. Martin Camacho
Assistant Professor of Music
Assistant to the Chair
mcamacho@mail.barry.edu
| Teaching Philosophy |
| “The music making process is a search for excellence which begins every day, but never ends. Therefore, the artistic goals that I try to communicate to my students do not have limits, as searching for the highest in music leads to constant revision. My students enjoy the personal and artistic rewards through this endless learning process. This allows the young musician to reinvent, enjoy, and challenge themselves everyday and every time they make music, whereas they are performing an important concert, or during their everyday practice. ” |
Bio:
Martin Camacho completed his doctoral studies in 2006 at the University of Miami in the studio of pianist Ivan Davis. He was born in Mexico City, and began his piano studies in that city at Escuela Superior de Música. He continued his studies at Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, where he earned a Bachelor of Music Degree (1993). Camacho received a Master of Music Degree (1997) and a Professional Studies Diploma (1999) from the Cleveland Institute of Music under the guidance of pianist Sergei Babayan. Camacho received full-tuition scholarship in every school he attended.
Camacho has won eighteen national and local competitions in Mexico, Cuba, and the United States, and he is considered today as one of the most important Mexican pianists of his generation. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States as well as the most important orchestras in Mexico, including Mexico’s State Orchestra and Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra, and has performed extensively as a recitalist in the United States, Venezuela, Cuba, Japan, Norway and Mexico. During the summer of 2000, he toured as soloist with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, performing in more than fifteen cities in the USA and Canada. Dr. Camacho is also active in chamber and collaborative music with singers and other instrumentalists.
Camacho’s expertise in Mexican and Latin American music has led to several presentations in national and international conferences of lectures and recitals of topics related to Mexican music. He has been the recipient of Mexico’s National Endowment for the Arts (FONCA) prestigious grant for his dissemination of Mexican music. Camacho serves currently as a full-time music faculty and Assistant to the Chair at Barry University Fine Arts Department in Miami Shores, FL.
“In its entirety an unusually content filled program that was brilliantly performed…“there was never any doubt that Camacho is a very serious artist who has great potential.”
Knut Helbekkmo, Bergen Tidende, Norway
Selected Professional Activities: |
2009 |
Carnegie Hall Debut Recital at Weill Recital Hall |
2009 |
Spring Tour Recital in Mexico |
2007-08 |
Lectures at several conferences for the College Music Society |
2007-2008 |
Soloist, Mozart Piano Concerto and Castro Valse Caprice, South Beach Chamber Ensemble |
2002 |
Guest pianist and lecturer at the VII World Piano Pedagogy Conference |
2001 |
Soloist, Tchaikovsky Concerto, UMSO |
2000 |
Soloist, North America Concert Tour (15 cities), American Wind Symphony |
1999 |
Soloist, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra |
1998 |
Live Broadcasting, Five Recitals, WCLV |
1997 |
Norwegian Recital Tour |
1996 |
Soloist, Prokofiev Piano Concerto, Coyoacan Symphony Orchestra |
1994 |
Soloist, Brahms Piano Concerto, Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra |
1994 |
Soloist, Jimenez Mabarak Concerto, Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra |
1996-2008 |
Several Solo and Chamber Music Recitals in the US and Mexico |
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