Classical Credentials
Best known worldwide as The Original Video Game Pianist™, Martin Leung is also a DMA-credentialed concert pianist whose classical career includes first-prize competition wins and a performance at Leipzig's historic Gewandhaus.
In November 2017, Martin Leung performed Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Akademisches Orchester Leipzig under maestro Horst Förster at the historic Leipzig Gewandhaus — an invitation earned after winning first prize in the concerto division of the Los Angeles Liszt Piano Competition.
USC Thornton School of Music, November 2017
“Dramatic power, sensitive nuance, and sheer poetry… played with astonishing technical assurance. He is clearly a pianist to watch.”
“…a rising talent of the future… precise, skilled attack of the keyboard.”
“I think I have made a real coup… It is 19th century meets 20th century.”
