Artist Mini-Biography:  Martin Izsak
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     Martin Izsak was born and raised in the small town of
Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada, where he continues to live today.
His musical output is focused solidly on instrumental work,
combining electronic instruments with more traditional orchestral
sounds, often to a rock&roll or similarly fast-paced beat,
at other times delving into the deeper emotions of a New-Age
or classical style.

     Martin is currently producing for commercial release
a series of CD's derived from the library of music he has built
over several years.  The first album of the series,
"Harmonic Odyssey", focuses on Martin's own compositions.
Future albums in the series will feature more "cover" songs
of pieces from film, television, and popular music.

     Martin began playing the keyboard by ear in early childhood,
and received extra music lessons to help further his talent.
He eventually studied electronic music at York University in 
Toronto, Ontario, alongside his other interests in writing,
film and video, and computer programming.  Perhaps due to his
independent spirit, even now he feels more at home playing by
ear than from traditionally written music, and continues to
learn and analyze all music that strikes his interest today.

     Film & TV scores remain his favourite genre.  "The stories
attached to the music get told with visuals & dialogue, etc.,
instead of lyrics which I am generally not fond of at all.  The
music itself only needs to take care of the emotional moods and
provide some memorable thematic symbology to give itself and
the film an artistic unity.

    "Many of my musical traits take after musicians whose work
I admire.  Much of the liveliness and song structuring style found
on the CD Harmonic Odyssey was influenced by the compositions of
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA."

     Martin's musical end-product has been favourably compared to the
instrumental style of Yanni, whom Martin is only just
discovering now, to his delight.

     While the tracks on Harmonic Odyssey can each stand alone
as songs in their own right, their intertwining themes and emotional
variety has also caused the album as a whole to be compared to a film
score without a film.  "I guess that reveals something about how 
I think about music," chuckles Martin.

     Martin founded Lyratek Arts in 1996 to handle the business
end of his various multi-media projects.


Martin Izsak                              izsakm@vianet.on.ca
P.O. Box 1049                             www.harmonicodyssey.com
Gravenhurst, Ontario
Canada   P1P 1V3