During his professional singing career Martínez has performed leading baritone roles in numerous opera, oratorio and musical productions, including appearances with the Finger Lakes Opera, Sociedad Proarte Latinoamericana, Rochester Lyric Opera, Mercury Opera of Rochester, Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Opera de las Américas, Compañia Lírica Dominicana, Eastman Opera Theater, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Symphoria, Charleston Symphony, Rochester Oratorio Society, Western New York Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras of Santo Domingo, Orchard Park Chorale and Symphony, New Eastman Symphony and the Eastman Philharmonia, among others. He has also performed at concert venues in Jinan, China, the United Kingdom, the Dominican Republic, and at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
Martínez was nominated as Best Classical Singer for the Soberano Awards, and named Honorary Member of the National Company of Classical Singers in his native country the Dominican Republic. At Nazareth University, he serves as Co-Chair of the Association of Faculty and Staff of Color and was the inaugural recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award.
As an arts administrator, Martínez has experience at local, regional, national and international levels. Currently Interim Dean of the College of Visual, Performing Arts, & Design at Nazareth University, where he has also served as Associate Dean for Visual & Performing Arts, Chairperson and Director of the School of Music, Program Director for the graduate and undergraduate Music Performance Programs, and as Coordinator of Vocal Studies. Active in administrative service to professional organizations, Martínez currently serves a second term as Governor for the Eastern Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and previously served as the President for the NATS Central New York-Finger Lakes Chapter. In 2015, Martínez was appointed, for the second time, as Arts Consultant for the Ministry of Culture in the Dominican Republic.
Martínez’s students are frequently cast in leading roles in opera and musical theatre productions at the professional and collegiate levels, are recipients of awards and recognition through national, regional and local competitions, have been accepted into prominent graduate and undergraduate programs in vocal performance, musical theatre and other music degrees, as well as in international and regional professional training programs.
Martínez has worked as guest adjudicator, clinician, master teacher, vocal coach, stage director and musical director at the local, regional, national and international levels. He holds doctorate and master degrees in Vocal Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Sociology from Luther College. Martínez has been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Delta Pí and Pi Kappa Lambda.
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