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Evi Martyn (born November 11, 1941 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek-American international concert pianist, music scholar, music educator, author, and a blogger about Hellenic culture.
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Martyn's parents were Anastasios Giannatos, from the island of Cephalonia, Western Greece, and Sophia Aliyevitz from Odessa, Russia. Their wealth aided her pursuit of musical interests: she began studying piano at the age of three and quickly demonstrated an aptitude for it. By the age of six she made her first public appearance in Greece playing Beethoven, Mozart, and Mendelssohn on the piano with a quartet. In 1952, she studied at Athens Conservatoire and eventually graduated Magna Cum Laude with both a Bachelors and Masters in music. Then, she continued at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich, Germany earning a PhD in Piano Performance. She is proficient in six languages - Greek, Homeric Greek, French, German, English, and Italian.
In the mid-1960s, Martyn began performing in prestigious concert halls such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, and Theater Gloria in Athens, working as a recitalist and soloist with symphony orchestras.
Between 1977-2006, she appeared with other orchestras, such as the Lamoureux Symphony of France, Reutlingen Symphony of Germany, South Coast Symphony of Huntington Beach California, and the Southwest Symphony of Utah. She also performed at some benefit concerts.
She runs the Martyn School of Music in Los Alamitos, California. She is also the author and producer of Anthology of Piano Literature, which became a teaching aid for many serious educators of music across the United States. She also wrote The Root of Evil (2004).
In 2012, she started a blog to support and perpetuate Hellenic culture. She has been a guest speaker with James H. Fetzer of the Duluth University 911 Scholars.org radio broadcast series.
Martyn was recognised by The American College of Musicians, Hall of Fame in 1989. She continues to work with notable conductors such as Dimitri Agrafiotis, Nikos Athineos, Gary Caldwell, and Larry Grainger.