Martin Leung (aka Video Game Pianist aka Blindfolded Pianist) is an award-winning, globally-recognized pianist and musical pioneer for the 21st century. Although he trained classically, Martin Leung specializes in playing music from video games.

At San Francisco’s Sony Metreon on 8 March 2005, Martin made his first public appearance interpreting the tune-stories of Super Mario, Sonic, Zelda, Earthworm Jim, and Halo 2 as a performing art. Two days later he performed at Moscone Center for the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Audio Awards. Martin Leung is in the vanguard of efforts to introduce video game music as a respectable component of universal music-making. The first video-game-music solo recital Martin performed publicly was in 2005 at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas—replete with 21 encores.

His success was initially launched by a popular internet video of then-seventeen-year-old Martin’s blindfolded performance of the classic Super Mario Brothers theme, and a spirited Mario medley. This landmark clip debuted on numerous websites on 2 July 2004.

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