Santiago del Estero is the city where Marta was born and spent the early years of her life. This is where, at age 4, her parents first discovered what seemed to be a natural talent for piano and a strong uncanny ability with music. After hearing a song on the radio she could immediately reproduce the melody unerringly on a small toy piano. Amazed, her parents began to search for a real piano and an instructor for their prodigy. 
After a year at the Provincial Conservatory of Music, Marta performed her first recital for the public. This performance at such an early age was so impressive her mother started to receive offers for Marta to do other concerts, appearances and even television programs. 
The next several years were spent studying under Franklin Ponce, a famous pianist and instructor who had studied in Europe. He made her ready for her first full symphony concert, Beethoven’s first Concerto for Piano with the Tucuman Symphony Orchestra…at this time she was only 14 years old. 
The next several years provided time for little else but study. She received her degree from the prestigious Tucuman Conservatory of Music as Professora de Piano and by the time she turned 21, had moved to Buenos Aires and become the star of The National Symphony of Argentina there. 
During her life she has traveled extensively and performed with many of the largest most respected symphonies in the most prestigious concert venues throughout Latin America. 
More recently Marta has been residing in the United States. In the last 18 months she has performed extensively mostly along the west coast of the United States and in Europe. 
Marta is an international artist with an exceptional command of her instrument. She brings to each performance a vast amount of knowledge and experience! You will find in this recording passion and power…these are great arrangements of Tango for piano performed by a true Master…she is perhaps the best Tango pianist alive today!


11 La Yumba

10 Nocturna

09 La Cumparsita

08 Verano Porteño

07 Primavera Porteña

06 Invierno Porteño

05 Otoño Porteño

04 Adios Nonino

03 El Choclo

02 Canaro En Paris

01 A Fuego Lento

Marta was first introduced to music when, at 4 years of age, she received a toy piano as a gift from an uncle.  Her interest in this new toy and the music it made became obvious.  A few weeks later her uncle listening closely to what Marta was playing told Teresa that indeed, her daughter had an unusual gift.  When Teresa turned her attention to Marta she discovered her daughter had the ability to immediately and accurately repeat the melodies of the songs she heard on the radio.

Prodded by the uncle and Teresa, Rafael moved to bring a real piano to the family home.  A truck arrived at her home carrying several pianos and hoisted into the truck by her father she played and listened to each one. In just a few minutes she declared a Ronisch to be her choice.  Her father soon found an instructor, Maria Del Carmen Ruiz de Sanchez, and Marta, at 5 years of age started in earnest her study on the instrument.

Marta gave her first public performance in 1970, at age 6 at The Williams Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires.  By now, it was not only her family who viewed Marta as an extremely gifted child, but everyone who heard her play.  In 1970 she performed live for the radio station in Santiago Del Estero, LV11.  She continued to attend and perform at the Williams Conservatory for three years and received first place medals, the top honor for the best student from Williams in all three years.

In her last year at Williams, 1972, her mother was approached with a contractual offer for Marta to appear as a regular on a nationally televised program.  The offer was soundly rebuffed but it brought to her mother’s attention the potential of her talent and underlined a need for continued and more serious studies.  With the introduction of Franklin Ponce as her instructor and mentor a course was set.

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