| Biography | Described as possessing real star quality (Times) and giving a a powerhouse performance thats a vocal and physical tour de force (whatsonstage), Marta has completed Postgraduate and Opera Course training with Marilyn Rees at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London and is also currently combining an Artist Diploma with her freelance work.
Marta is delighted to have recently won the 'Prix de Lied' at the Concours International de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris. This year, she was also awarded the Robert Hendra Prize for Excellence at the Emmy Destinn Competition, performing songs and arias by Dvorak, Janacek, Britten and Rossini and was joint winner of the 2015 Gold Medal performing arias by Mozart, Bellini and Rossini with Dominic Wheeler and the Guildhall School Orchestra at Barbican Hall. In addition, Marta was awarded the GSMD Principals Prize in 2014 and was a Finalist in the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Awards performing at Wigmore Hall, winner of the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2011, Odette Sansom Award for English Song at GSMD, Runner-Up in the Thelma King Award and finalist in the Hampshire Singing Competition.
Marta is a keen exponent of concert and oratorio repertoire. She made her Wigmore Hall recital debut, accompanied by Timothy End in June 2014. Other recent performances include LEnfant et les Sortilèges with Stéphane Denève / Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Liederahalle Stuttgart; Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & live on BBC Radio 3, Wesendonck Lieder with Quantum Ensemble / Auditorio Tenerife; Mozart Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / St Paul's Cathedral; Bach Mass in B Minor with Ryan Wigglesworth / St Endellion Festival; Mozart Mass in C Minor with the London Mozart Players / St John's Smith Square and at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford; Handel Messiah with Lawrence Cummings / London Handel Festival; Mahler Kindertotenlieder with Mike Seal / Corinthian Chamber Orchestra / St James Piccadilly; Strauss Deutsche Motette and Duruflé Requiem London Mozart Players / St Johns Smith Square. Marta enjoys giving recitals and regularly performs at St Martin in the Fields, St James' Piccadilly and St Stephen's Wallbrook. Marta is a Tillett Trust Artist and Concordia Foundation Artist.
Marta regularly performs New Music and enjoys collaborating with composers and librettists. Most recently she has had the pleasure of workshopping the title role in a new Royal Opera House opera by Gavin Higgins and Francesca Simon, as well as her acclaimed performance of Ursula in the ROH / Glyndebourne co-production Nothing, based on the novel by Danish author Janne Teller and composed by David Bruce. Marta has also collaborated on, premiered and recorded two new songs cycles Damsel, Wife, Witch by Glyndebourne composer in residence Lewis Murphy and Letters from Home by Benjamin Ellin. Other performances of note include Jonathan Harveys Songs of Li Po with Richard Baker and the Guildhall Orchestra performed at Barbican Hall and live on BBC Radio 3.
Marta was delighted to join Glyndebourne Festival as a Jerwood Young Artist in 2015, performing in Carmen, Poliuto, Saul and covering Cat & Squirrel in LEnfant et les Sortilèges. Other recent operatic experience includes Mercedes & cover title role Carmen / Mid Wales Opera; Woodpecker & cover Fox The Cunning Little Vixen / Garsington Opera; title role The Adventures of Pinocchio Jonathan Dove; Paggio Francesca di Foix Donizetti; Kate Julian Owen Wingrave / GSMD; Drummer The Emperor of Atlantis / Grimeborn Festival and Kate Pinkerton Madama Butterfly / Grange Park Opera.
Future engagements for 2016 include Verdi Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music at the Last Night of the Proms and Vivaldi Gloria at Royal Festival Hall as well as her debuts with both Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Glyndebourne on Tour.
Marta is very grateful to those who have generously supported her throughout her time at GSMD; the Gwen Catley Scholarship, the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship, the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award, Susan Chilcott Scholarship, Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust, Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust, Sidney Perry Foundation and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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