Marta Menezes, Portugal, 2017

Tour Dates: 7th July - 16th July, 2017

Marta Menezes is one of the most promising Portuguese pianists of her generation.

7th July, 19:30, Shanghai City Theatre
8th July, 19:45, Shanghai Oriental Art Center - Performance Hall
9th July, 19:30, Chongqing Guotai Arts Centre - Concert Hall
10th July, 19:30, Chengdu Telunsu Concert Hall
13rd July, 19:00, Ha'erbin Grand Theatre - Small Theater
14th July, 19:00, Mong Man Wai Hall, Tsinghua University
15th July, 19:30, Tianjin Grand Theater - Concert Hall
16th July, 19:30,  National Center for the Performing Arts - MF Theatre

Marta Menezes is one of the most promising Portuguese pianists of her generation.

1st Prize winner of the Beethoven Competition at the Royal College of Music (London, 2013) and of the International Piano Competition, Nice - Côte D'Azur "Simone Delbert-Février" (2013), Marta has several awards in international competitions in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and in the United States.

Marta was awarded the Silver Medal of Honour and Distinction - "Medalha de Prata de Valor e Distinção" by the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon for her career achievements, in 2014.

In 2015 she released her first CD with works by Beethoven and the Portuguese composer Lopes-Graça, which has recently been awarded the prize Global Music Awards - Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement, in the categories classical piano and emerging artist (USA).

As a soloist, she performed with the Orchestre Régional de Cannes, the Symphony Orchestra from the Lisbon Superior School of Music, the Camerata MusArt, the Camerata Amicis and the Student Orchestra at the Jacobs School of Music, under conductors such as Nicolas Simon, Vasco Azevedo, Gareguin Aratiounian, Carlos Silva and Louis Lohraseb.