Biography

Lucía Martínez is a young musician, with experience and a really strong background in world, classical and jazz music. A versatile multi-instrumentalist and composer, Lucía belongs to the new generation of jazz musicians in Europe, but with the flavour from the south. Her stile is influenced by the folk music from Galicia (North Spain), flamenco and all the music from Mediterranean, mixing it with the new avant-garde  music.

         She was born in Vigo in 1982.  At the age of 9, Lucía started studying traditional percussion with local musicians and also latin percussion with a Cuban percussion player Marcos Valcárcel, before she began with classical training.

Lucía is the leader of the Lucía Martínez Quartet, a project which just recorded their first cd: ”Soños e Delirios”.

She has worked with musicians in the field of jazz, folk, traditional music, classical, such as Maria João, Perico Sambeat, Carlos Bica, Jason Lindner, Allan Ferber, OJM (Jazz Orquestra from Matosinhos-Portugal), Laszlo Süle, Orquesta ImaxinaSons (Jazz Orquestra from Vigo-Spain), Filarmonic from Galicia (Spain), Uxía Senlle, Mercedes Peón, Rodrigo Romaní, to just name a few.

         Lucia appeard on several festivals world wide such as the Festival Interceltique de Lorient (France), Folk Festival (Cannes-Francia), Music Festival Dranouter (Belgic), Celtic Connections (Glasgow-Scotland), Festival La Mar de Músicas (Cartagena-Spain), Festival de Ortigueira (Galicia-Spain), VIII Encontro de Música Antiga de Loulé (Portugal), Festival Imaxinasons (Vigo-Spain), Festival de Jazz de Vila Real, Jazz no Rio, Música no Palácio (Portugal).

         She studied orchestral percussion at the “School of high education from Galicia”(2002-2004), She is graduated in classical percussion in the “Conservatory of Music” in Vigo (2006) and she got the eight year in orchestral percussion in the Guildhall School of Music in London (1998).

Besides this classical training she focused on drums, vibraphone and jazz composition. She did an Erasmus Program in the Institute Politecnic of Helsinki Stadia and finally graduated at the well known School of Music and Arts (ESMAE) from Porto (Portugal) (2007). She participated in big-band, composition, vibraphone and drums workshops, in Italy, Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom.

Some of her teachers were Michael Lauren, John Hollenbeck, Jeffry Davis, David Samuels, John Riley, Garrison Fewell, David Friedman, Severy Pysalo to just name a few.

She got two awards in the important portugues jazz festival: Festival San Luiz in Lisboa in May 2007: the best musician and the best band.

The National award in choires with “Camerata ad Libitum” (2002)

         Right now she lives in Berlin: studying the Master Program in jazz at the “University of Arts” (JIB) from Berlin. Working as a drummer and percussion player, she belong to the drum quartet “Tim Tim por Tim Tum”, together with José Salgueiro, Alexandre Fraçao and Marco Franco, to the world-music project “Coplas para Icía- Xabier Díaz”. She plays historic percussion in the project  “Amar contra o silencio”, and vibraphone and percussion in the “Projecto Miño-Baldo Martínez”.

She also plays in different projects playing, vibraphone, drums, percussion, composing or arranging in different kinds of music like jazz, latin, folk, classic and contemporain.

www.lucimartinez.com