
Demian Martin is a pianist, improvisation artist, composer and music producer. His work moves between solo performance, chamber music, film, theatre, and orchestral writing, with a particular focus on historical improvisation, arrangement, and composition in interdisciplinary contexts.
He studied piano at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, artistic piano improvisation at the HMDK Stuttgart, and film music and sound design at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. He is currently deepening his work in music theory at the Universität der Künste Berlin, after an Erasmus stay at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Jean-François Zygel.
As a performer, he appears in recital, in duo with cellist Lionel Martin, in silent-film accompaniment, and in audience-driven improvisation formats. His concerts have brought him to venues including the Tonhalle Zürich, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the HR-Sendesaal Frankfurt, and the Oberstdorfer Musiksommer, and his performances have been broadcast and recorded by WDR, BR, Deutschlandfunk, ARTE, and SWR.
As a composer and producer, Demian Martin has written for short fiction films, documentaries, animation, television, theatre, and live performance. His recent work includes orchestral and chamber scores, music and sound design for stage productions, and arrangements for orchestra, performed by the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, and the Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina.
In his solo recitals and his collaborations, he works with improvisation in historical styles as a bridge to the classical repertoire. Form, style, and audience interaction remain central to the musical event.









