Martin Garcia

Bassoon

Martin Garcia is the associate principal bassoonist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. A former member of the Milwaukee Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, he was an active freelancer in the Philadelphia area and has been heard in concert with many of that region's groups, including the Philadelphia Orchestra. His primary studies were with Bernard Garfield at the Curtis Institute of Music, Milan Turkovic at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, and William Winstead at the University of Ms. Beilman was awarded the President’s Prize by Yuri Bashmet at the 2013 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. She is also the winner of the Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition and laureate of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition and the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. She received her undergraduate degree from the Juilliard School of Music as a student of Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang and was awarded the John Erskine Prize for artistic and scholastic achievement. She completed her Master of Music degree at the University of Southern California, where she studied with Donald McInnes. By day, Elizabeth is a Senior Category Insights Manager at Empire Marketing Strategies. Cincinnati College-Conservatory (under the auspices of an Albert C. Yates fellowship). He undertook further advanced study with Daniel Matsukawa. With the Cincinnati Symphony, he has played concerts on tour in Japan, New York, and as acting principal bassoonist in China, Hong Kong, and Europe in 2017. As an educator, he is past faculty for Temple University's Music Preparatory Department, "Summerfest" at the Curtis Institute of Music, and has given masterclasses at the Oberlin Conservatory, Wright State University, and the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China. In 2021, he represented the Curtis Institute and the Cincinnati Symphony as inaugural faculty for OAcademy, a digital orchestral academy serving young musicians in twenty countries of the Americas and has been invited to return in 2022. He has participated in the festivals of Sarasota, Evian, Verbier, Vienna Modern, Lakes Area (MN), Mainly Mozart, and Marlboro Music. Outside of Cincinnati, he occasionally concertizes and records with the New York-based chamber orchestra, The Knights. His latest release with them is an album of the Brahms and Beethoven concerti with violinist Gil Shaham, which was recently nominated for a Grammy.