MARTIN RISELEY
Violin
A native of New Zealand, Martin Riseley began violin studies at the age of six and gave his first solo concert when he was ten. After several years of study with the English violinist Carl Pini he entered the University of Canterbury School of Music in 1986. In 1988 he won the Television New Zealand Young Musicians Competition and Australian Guarantee Corporation Young Achievers Award. Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree he went to the Juilliard School in 1989 where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Piotr Milewski. He graduated from Juilliard in 1996 with his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree.
Martin Riseley assisted Dorothy DeLay as a teaching fellow in the Pre-College Division of Juilliard while in New York and taught at the 92nd Street 'Y'. He was also soloist and Concertmaster with the Chamber Players of the Juilliard School in their Merkin Hall debut, and in Alice Tully Hall as part of the Mozart Bicentennial celebrations at Lincoln Center.
Martin Riseley has been Concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra since 1994 and his solo and chamber concerts have appeared on CBC radio. He recently gave the North American premiere of the Violin Concerto "The Bulls of Bashan" by Gavin Bryars, and played the Chaconne from The Red Violin by John Corigliano at the ESO's Enbridge Symphony Under the Sky festival. In 2002 he premiered a concerto by the ESO's former Composer-in-Residence, Allan Gilliland .
With colleagues Stéphane Lemelin and Tanya Prochazka he surveyed the complete literature for piano and strings by Brahms and the complete trios of Beethoven. He was also a resident performer at the 2000 Ottawa Chamber Music Festival where he appeared in concert with Andres Diaz, Andrew Dawes and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. He returned to the Festival to perform with Jane Coop and Amanda Forsyth, among others, and later that year returned to Ottawa to perform with Pinchas Zukerman and Jon Kimura Parker in a series of chamber music performances at the National Arts Center. He was appointed Interim Associate Concertmaster of the National Arts Center Orchestra for the 2002-2003 season.
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