Martin Leung () is an American pianist. He plays classical music and is known as Video Game Pianist. He gained recognition for playing video game music on the piano, both in concert venues and in online videos. In July 2004, a video of him playing the Super Mario Bros. theme blindfolded became viral. Leung makes YouTube videos, and as of August 2020, has over 102,000 subscribers and 25.67 million total views. Personal life Born in Hong Kong to Chinese and Japanese parents, Leung moved to California when he was three years old. After being noticed imitating his sister playing, he was enrolled piano lessons at the age of 4. Leung placed first twice at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, once in 1998 and once in 2000, and placed third at the Eighth Annual Oberlin International Piano Competition in 2002. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2003 at the age of 16 in the Isaac Stern Auditorium, performing Mendelssohn's Concerto No. 1 - Presto. In August 2003, Leung performed the same movement with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with conductor Lucas Richman in Heinz Hall. The performance was later broadcast on the NPR radio show From The Top. On 2 July 2004, the video he and a friend had created of him performing songs from the Super Mario Bros. series blindfolded debuted on eBaum's World and later appeared on other websites. Leung holds piano performance degrees from USC Thornton School of Music (Doctor of Musical Arts, 2015, Prof. Stewart L. Gordon), Yale School of Music (Master of Music, 2010, Prof. Claude Frank), and Cleveland Institute of Music (Bachelor of Music, 2008, Prof. Paul Schenly and Prof. Daniel Shapiro). Leung studied with Marilyn Shields, Scott McBride Smith, Myong-joo Lee, and Ory Shihor before studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Performances Video game music After getting 40 million views on his Super Mario Medley internet video, he began performing video game music from other popular gaming series including The Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo, Earthworm Jim, and Final Fantasy. Leung performed in select cities with Video Games Live from 2005 to 2012. His performances were reviewed and mentioned in the New York Times, Wired, Deseret News, G4TV, San Diego Union Tribune, the Boston Phoenix, among others. Leung gave his first live all-video-game-music piano recital at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, TX in 2005. Leung gave 21 encores. He