[1] Jorge Martín was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, and established his residence in the United States at an early age.
[1] His opera Before Night Falls, based on the 1992 autobiography of the same name by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, was given its world premiere at the Fort Worth Opera in June 2010.
Albany also released another recording of Martin's compositions entitled Cello Music in 2012.
[4] Other compositions include "Beast and Superbeast", a set of four one-act operas based on short stories by Saki; a Saxophone Quartet and Four Dances for Bassoon and String Quartet, which had its world premiere in Finland in July 1997.
[2] In 2005, Martín received a fellowship award from the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa.