Martin Canin

Martin Canin (March 23, 1930–May 9, 2019)[1][2][3] was an American pianist and prominent piano pedagogue who was on the faculty of The Juilliard School from 1976 to 2016 and of Stony Brook University from 1965 to 1993.

Canin studied also with the noted pianist, pedagogue, and critic Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory before entering The Juilliard School.

[4][5] Martin Canin began his career as a piano recitalist; in The New York Times, Harold Schonberg wrote of one concert in 1960 that “Mr.

Only an expert technician could have carried it off with such clarity, authority and even brio.” Downes concluded, "In Schubert's 'Wanderer' Fantasy, the pianist showed he not only had a sense of drama, but also musical depth and consistent beauty of tone at his command.

Among his prominent disciples are Sean Botkin, Joel Fan, Madeleine Forte, Arthur Greene, Stephen Hough, Douglas Humpherys, Min Kwon, Mihae Lee, Anne-Marie McDermott, Quynh Nguyen, Haewon Song, Annette Volkamer, Dalit Warshaw, Yung Wook Yoo,[16] and Terence Yung.