Martin Agee
Over the span of three decades, Martin Agee’s career as an artist and teacher has made him one of the most recognizable violinists in the major concert venues, recording studios, and theatres of New York City. Highly sought after across a wide range of genres and musical styles, he is equally at home as a chamber music collaborator, interpreter of new music, and as a concertmaster for traditional orchestras, opera, ballet, and theatre.
The son of a well known music educator in his native Colorado, Martin Agee began his musical studies at the age of four, and was soon recognized for his penchant as a performer and for his score reading abilities at a young age. His studies culminated under the guidance of the late master Raphael Bronstein in New York, where his professional career made its beginnings as a teaching assistant at the Manhattan School of Music. Not long after, his role as an active violinist began with some of the most highly visible of New York’s musical organizations, and his relationship continues with most of them to the present day.
The orchestras with which Mr. Agee has performed comprise a long list of many of New York’s most notable ensembles, including the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, American Composers Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York Chamber Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, and the American Theatre Orchestra, among many others. A highly respected collaborator in the field of new music, in addition to his long tenure with American Composers Orchestra he premiered some thirty-five works with the Music Today Ensemble, and toured four continents with Steve Reich and Musicians, performing worldwide in the latter’s most influential works including Different Trains, Triple Quartet, and Three Tales.
Mr. Agee can be heard in chamber music and solo settings on the RCA, Sony, Opus One, Musical Heritage, CRI, Angel, and Mode record labels. In addition, he has amassed a discography of more than a hundred recordings, including over forty original Broadway cast albums, as well as a large catalogue of television and film credits, both on camera and off.
His television, recording and performing credits encompass a wide array of performances with the major artists of our time from Itzhak Perlman to Yannick Nezet-Seguin and from Madonna to Metallica.
In January 2020, Points of Light, the world's largest organization dedicated to the promotion and fostering of volunteerism, awarded Mr. Agee the Daily Point of Light Award in recognition of his volunteer work at New York City's ASPCA.
During his years as a professional musician, Martin Agee has remained active as a writer of poetry, fiction and critical essays. His short story, "About 465 nm: A Chronology," was recently published in the U.K. by the literary journal Literally Stories. Other stories and poetry have appeared in Belle Ombre, Adelaide Literary Journal, and The Daily Drunk, among many others.
Watch Lincoln Center's "Mozart Minute" video of Martin Agee:
The son of a well known music educator in his native Colorado, Martin Agee began his musical studies at the age of four, and was soon recognized for his penchant as a performer and for his score reading abilities at a young age. His studies culminated under the guidance of the late master Raphael Bronstein in New York, where his professional career made its beginnings as a teaching assistant at the Manhattan School of Music. Not long after, his role as an active violinist began with some of the most highly visible of New York’s musical organizations, and his relationship continues with most of them to the present day.
The orchestras with which Mr. Agee has performed comprise a long list of many of New York’s most notable ensembles, including the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, American Composers Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York Chamber Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, and the American Theatre Orchestra, among many others. A highly respected collaborator in the field of new music, in addition to his long tenure with American Composers Orchestra he premiered some thirty-five works with the Music Today Ensemble, and toured four continents with Steve Reich and Musicians, performing worldwide in the latter’s most influential works including Different Trains, Triple Quartet, and Three Tales.
Mr. Agee can be heard in chamber music and solo settings on the RCA, Sony, Opus One, Musical Heritage, CRI, Angel, and Mode record labels. In addition, he has amassed a discography of more than a hundred recordings, including over forty original Broadway cast albums, as well as a large catalogue of television and film credits, both on camera and off.
His television, recording and performing credits encompass a wide array of performances with the major artists of our time from Itzhak Perlman to Yannick Nezet-Seguin and from Madonna to Metallica.
In January 2020, Points of Light, the world's largest organization dedicated to the promotion and fostering of volunteerism, awarded Mr. Agee the Daily Point of Light Award in recognition of his volunteer work at New York City's ASPCA.
During his years as a professional musician, Martin Agee has remained active as a writer of poetry, fiction and critical essays. His short story, "About 465 nm: A Chronology," was recently published in the U.K. by the literary journal Literally Stories. Other stories and poetry have appeared in Belle Ombre, Adelaide Literary Journal, and The Daily Drunk, among many others.
Watch Lincoln Center's "Mozart Minute" video of Martin Agee:
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