Marta Casals Istomin

Marta Casals Istomin (* 2. November 1936 in Humacao as Marta Angelica Martinez Montañez ) is an American musician and music teacher Puerto Rican origin.

Life

As a child she took violin lessons from her uncle Rafael Montañez , who was a poet, journalist and musician. For four years she attended the Marymount School of the Convent of the Sacred Heart of Mary in New York and also took cello lessons with Lieff Rosanoff at the Mannes College of Music . After graduating from Marymont School in 1954, she went to Europe and became a student of Pablo Casals . She took part in the Prades Festival , followed Casals to the Zermatt Summer Music Academy and in 1956 was the organizational director of the Casals Festivalinvolved in San Juan. In 1957 she married Casals, whose work she supported until his death in 1973.

In 1974 she took on a guest professorship for cello at the Curtis Institute of Music , at the same time she became a member of the board of the Casals Festival . In 1975 she married the pianist Eugene Istomin . From 1980 to 1990 she was artistic director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , where she was responsible for programming in the fields of music, dance and theater and initiated the Terrace Concerts and a number of music education programs. In 1990 she became General Director of the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian Festival in France (until 1997), and in the same year she appointed President George HW Bush as a member of the National Council on the Arts . From 1992 to 2005 she was President of the Manhattan School of Music . In 2015 she was honored as the Library of Congress Living Legend .

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personal data
SURNAME	Casals Istomin, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Montañez Martinez, Marta Angelica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American-Puerto Rican musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Humacao