Martin Canin

Canin was born in New York City and was a graduate of Juilliard, where he studied under the piano pedagogue Rosina Lhévinne, who along with her husband Josef Lhévinne was part of a long lineage of Russian pianists and teachers. Canin began piano studies at age 7 as a scholarship student at the Henry Street Settlement, on New York's Lower East Side, studying first with Aurelio Giorni and later for a decade with Austrian-born pianist, composer, and conductor Robert Scholz, as well as attending summer-school programs at the Meadowmount School of Music. Canin studied also with the pianist, pedagogue, and critic Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory before entering The Juilliard School.