Jaime Martín

Jaime Martín is a Spanish conductor, currently music director of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, who came to conducting after a career as a professional flutist. He is known for shaping chamber-scale orchestral programs with clarity and detail, and for pairing core repertoire with new commissions. Listeners can expect crisp textures and close attention to instrumental color.

Martín's programs with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra tend to mix a large-scale symphonic staple with something more intimate or new. In the Strauss and Beethoven program, Metamorphosen calls for 23 individually written string parts rather than a full string section moving in unison, so listeners can expect to hear individual lines emerge and interweave rather than a single blended wall of sound. The Ravel G major piano concerto that follows brings jazz-inflected harmonies and a slow middle movement built on a long, unhurried melody. The Beethoven Eroica symphony, on the same and other programs, is known for its unusually long first movement and a funeral march as its second movement. On the Brahms and Beethoven program, expect a new commissioned work alongside the Brahms Violin Concerto, prized for its lyrical, songful violin writing, and Beethoven's rhythmically driven Seventh Symphony.