Fabio Martino began playing the piano at the age of five. He played on his grandmother's instrument, a piano teacher in Sao Paulo. Seventeen years later - after a tough education at leading music academies in Brazil and Germany - he won first prize at Latin America's largest international piano competition.

Fabio Martino has now won over 20 first prizes in international competitions. However, he not only captivates audiences with his virtuoso playing, but also enchants them with his South American charm. The shooting star is regarded as the cheekiest and most open-minded challenger on the international pianist scene.

As a soloist, Fabio Martino performs internationally the piano concertos of the best-known composers such as Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Mozart, Gershwin, Schumann, Bartók and many others, but he also knows how to delight audiences with less frequently performed works - e.g. by Villa-Lobos, Medtner, Guarnieri or Mignone.

After a tour of several cities in northern Germany with the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra in 2019, the press wrote Fabio Martino plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with "furious mastery of the keyboard and musical sensitivity" and: the work is "as if made for him."

2020 got off to an equally furious and musical start at the Festspielhaus in Salzburg. Fabio Martino was celebrated by the audience for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Mignone's Fantasia Brasileira in two completely sold-out New Year's concerts. The concert calendar would have held many more highlights - e.g. in the Sala Verdi in Milan, the Herkulessaal in Munich and the Sao Paulo Opera House. Martino has also demonstrated his skills and special stage presence in various film and TV productions as well as LIVE recordings, including for SWR, BR, NDR, TV Globo and the BBC. In March 2020, he was commissioned by ARTE and ZDF to score the silent film "Beethoven" together with the Thuringian Philharmonic Orchestra. Critics mention Fabio Martino in the same breath as Nelson Freire, Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau and Sviatoslav Richter and even associate him with Vladimir Horowitz.