Janice Martin
Janice Martin
aerial acrobatic violinist
Newspapers around the world including The New York Times and Washington Post have described Janice Martin’s virtuosic playing as “brilliant” and “splendid” with “a warm and richly resonant tone” where “perfection was never in question.”
There is no performer quite like Janice Martin. She achieves virtuosity as a violinist, pianist, vocalist, and most uniquely, as an Aerial Acrobatic Violinist.
Following her NY Times’ critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut on Solo Violin, Janice has toured the world as a featured guest soloist performer in the White House for the President of the United States, with orchestras and with the internationally acclaimed troupe Cirque de la Symphonie, with whom she has performed with such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Baltimore Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony, National Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony to name a few. Janice has performed as a soloist in some of the most celebrated concert halls in the world such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and Prague’s Rudolfinum.
Ms. Martin’s musical credentials include the honorary use of the 1708 Burstein/Bagshawe Stradivarius Violin from the Stradivari Society, top prizes at the Washington International Competition, the Young Artist International Competition, and the Career Award Grant by
National Endowment for the Arts. Musicians and critics such as Henry Fogel of the Chicago Symphony praised her tone, technique, and depth of musicianship.
Janice wowed millions of viewers on the NBC Series “America’s Got Talent” with her aerial violin and vocal performance. Her work has been featured on television projects for the Discovery and History Channels and on the big screen in the Miramax film “Paperclips.”
Janice’s unusual combination of abilities, along with her passion for bringing Classical music to a “larger sphere,” led her to also create aerial and musical “Crossover” concerts that pull from both the repertoire of the giants in Classical music and also from “Symphony Pops” repertoire, performed in her unique way. After co-creating and debuting “An Unlikely Affair” with Canadian fiddler Frank Leahy, Janice has continued to develop and perform her multi-discipline concerts both for Symphony Pops (“An Evening with Janice Martin,” “Fascinating Gershwin,” “An Unlikely Affair”) and her one-woman shows with dancers and small band (“A Janice Martin Cirque Show,” “Princess of the Violin,” “Paganinimania” and “World on a String”) which she has toured
worldwide.
Renowned composers such as the LA Philharmonic composer-in-residence Steven Stuckey, Miramax film composer Charlie Barnett, Jazz artists David Bixler, Larry Willis, and Ricki Holmes, and Broadway musical composer Bob Goldstone have composed for and collaborated with Ms. Martin. In addition, Janice has produced and starred in her own show “The Janice Martin Cirque Show,” for which she has been awarded “Best New Show”, “Best Matinee Show” and “Female Entertainer of the Year.” Janice starred in the multi-talent role of Kat in Ernest Shackleton Loves Me and Janice is also an actively sought-after lecturer, coach, and leader of master classes in universities and similar learning environments.
A native of Racine, Wisconsin, Janice is a graduate of The Juilliard School of Music studying with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, and Glenn Dicterow, and Indiana University School of Music studying with Yuval Yaron, Franco Gulli, and Mimi Zweig. She is also a United States Army Veteran, for which she contributed a three-year enlistment as the premiere violin soloist for presidential performances in the White House, the Capitol, and the State Department. She completed her basic training completed in Ft. Leonardwood, MO. Ms. Martin has created DVDs, and CDs and most recently authored a Children’s Inspirational Book entitled: “How I Learned to Fly.”
