Martin Kasik is an outstanding young Czech pianist. He has won many prizes including the prestigious New York Young Concert Artists Competition in 1999 where he was also awarded the Pasadena Symphony Soloist Prize and the Beracasa Foundation Prize of the Montpellier Radio-France Festival. Other honours include First Prize in the Prague Spring Competition in 1998, the 1999 Akzo Nobel Prize, and the prestigious Davidoff Prize, awarded to him in 2000.

He has given concerts in a number of European countries (the Netherlands – Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Finland – Finlandia Hall Helsinki, Spain - Auditorio di Barcelona, France - Théâtre du Châtelet, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Poland - Duszniky Chopin Festival, USA - Alice Tully Hall New York, Kennedy Center Washington, Japan - Tokyo Suntory Hall and Singapore - Singapore Victoria Concert Hall).

Martin Kasik has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras (New York Chamber Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic). In 2002 he appeared at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum concert series in New York and he made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pinchas Zukerman.

During last season he gave concerts in the USA, Japan (tour with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra), Switzerland (Tonhalle, Zürich), Mallorca, Germany and the UK (including The Sage, Gateshead, St George’s Hall, Liverpool and Wigmore Hall with the Wihan).