Martha Argerich was born in Argentina and made her debut at the age of five. While still a child she gave recitals in Buenos Aires at the Astral and the Colón before moving to Europe where she studied with Friedrich Gulda, Nikita Magaloff and Michelangeli.

At the age of sixteen, Argerich won the Geneva International Music Competition and the Busoni Competition. In 1964 she toured Western Europe and Poland before making her London debut in November that year. In 1965 she won the Seventh Warsaw International Chopin Competition and the Polish Radio Prize for her performances of Chopin Waltzes and Mazurkas. As this collection of awards shows, her technical skills are among the most formidable of her generation and her playing is notable for its uninhibited brilliance. It is therefore no surprise that she is considered to be one of the greatest pianists of our time, among such renowned pianists as Michelangeli, Horowitz, and Maurizio Pollini.

In december 2005 Martha Argerich recorded her first studio album for a non-major studio for avanticlassic.