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Martinez later completed graduate work at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of Otis Murphy and studied with the esteemed Japanese saxophonist Nobuya Sugawa at the Hamamatsu International Wind Academy and Festival. Martinez has performed with San Francisco Symphony, California Symphony, Classical Tahoe, Music in the Mountains, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players,\u00a0 and has recorded at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County.\u00a0 An avid chamber musician, Martinez won Grand Prize in the 2019 Plowman Chamber Music Competition, First Prize in the 2017 Chicago Woodwind Ensemble Competition and First Prize in the 2015 East Central Division MTNA Chamber Music Competition.\u00a0 Martinez is an endorsing artist for Yamaha, BG France, and Legere Reeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15976,"template":"","class_list":["post-15968","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"instrument_department":"Saxophone","sun_valley_title":"","home_organization_title":"Faculty, University of the Pacific ","performance_dates":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ricardo Martinez - Sun Valley Music Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ricardo Martinez - Sun Valley Music Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ricardo Martinez is Assistant Professor of Practice in Saxophone at Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific. 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