Martin Bryce Bejerano
Associate Professor

About Me
“To play music for a living is to be truly fortunate. I hope to impart this truth on my students as we work together to put them on the right path to becoming successful musicians
Biography
Martin Bejerano is an Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at the FROST School of Music. As head of the jazz piano department, he teaches applied jazz piano instruction, advanced improvisation, undergraduate jazz composition, jazz accompanying, and Trio Ensemble. Jazz Times said of him, "Add Martin Bejerano to the expanding roster of hot young pianists that stretches from Hiromi Uehara and Eldar Djangirov to Robert Glasper and Taylor Eigsti…”
Professor Bejerano has been active as a professional musician from the age of fifteen. An internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, he has been a member of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Roy Hayne’s Grammy-nominated quartet for fourteen years, and has performed and/or recorded with such jazz luminaries as Christian McBride, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Russell Malone, Ron Carter, Roy Hargrove, Ignacio Berroa, Lonnie Plaxico, Arturo Sandoval, Brian Lynch, Marcus Strickland, E.J. Strickland, Adam Nussbaum, Joe Locke, Kate Kinhan, Kevin Mahogany, Armando Gola, and Jonathan Joseph.
Aside from performing at most of the major jazz clubs, festivals and venues around the world as well as on “Late Night With David Letterman,” he
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As an educator, Professor Bejerano has presented numerous masterclasses and clinics all over the
Honors & Acknowledgements
Professional Experience
Career Highlights
- Pianist and founding member of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth quartet.
- Grammy nomination for Fountain of Youth, Roy Haynes Quartet , 2002
- Performances with Christian McBride, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Ron Carter, Russell Malone, Ignacio Berroa
- Performances at such notable venues as Alice Tully Hall, Rose Hall (Lincoln Center Jazz), Symphony Space, The Kennedy Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Philharmonie Kohln, Orchestra Hall (Detroit), Chicago Symphony Center, Newport Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Stockholm Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, and nearly all the major jazz clubs in the world
- Leader of award-winning Martin Bejerano Trio, including international performances and three critically acclaimed albums
Honors, Awards & Competitions
- 2016 composition commission for New York Philharmonic’s “New World Initiative”
- 2014 “Bacardi Choice” Commission, awarded by Bacardi and the Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation
- 2010 Chamber Music America’s “New Jazz Works” Commission/Grant
- 3rd place winner, Great American Jazz Piano Competition (1999)
- Adjudicator for National Young Arts Foundation, Jazz Educators Network (JEN), and the American Jazz Piano Competition
Recordings
- Over a dozen recordings as a sideman, with three albums as leader of Martin Bejerano Trio
Publications
- Practicing Jazz Improvisation, Interactive multi-media iBook (Martin Bejerano, 2016)
- “Developing Solo Piano Chops”, article for Keyboard magazine (August, 2016)