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Francisco Martínez completed his formal music study in Alicante and Madrid and went on to study in France with Daniel Deffayet, Serge Bichon, and J.M. Londeix. He is a National Music Award Winner as aristic director of Sax-Ensemble and has performed solo in concerts in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Some solo highlights include work with the UCLA Contemporary Ensemble in Los Angeles, the Instrument Ensemble of the Royal Air Forces of Belgium, the Symphonic Orchestra of Córdoba, the International Orchestra Ensemble of Italy, the Gerhard Project, the Chamber Orchestra Villa de Madrid, the Portuguese Symphonic Orchestra, the Madrid Symphonic Orchestra, the Radio and Television Orchestra of Kishinev, Moldavia, the Minsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mediterranean Symphonic Orchestra and the Savitra Chamber Orchestra. With the last four orchestras he performed, respectively, the world premiere of the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra by Manuel Seco, the Spanish premiere of the Edison Denisov Concerto, the world premiere of the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra by Carlos Cruz de Castro, and the world premiere of the "Fuego Azul" (Blue Smoke), Concerto for Saxophone, Piano, and Chamber Orchestra by Claudio Prieto.
Mr Martínez has taught courses in Vigo, Madrid, Benidorm, the European University of the Saxophone in Gap, France, the European University of the Saxophone in San Juan, Ciudad Real, Almagro, el Escorial, and Madrid, Spain. He has also taught Master Classes in Utrera (Sevilla), Madrid, the University of California in Los Angeles and the University of Minnesota in the USA, the Art School of Kishinev, the Amsterdam, Enschede, and Tilburg Conservatories in the Netherlands, and in Bordeaux, France. He has participated on various occasions in international saxophone juries. He works at the Teresa Berganza Conservatory in Madrid, and in the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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