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The Spanish soprano, María Martínez Gabaldón, started her musical studies when she was 8 years old at Professional Conservatoire “Jacinto Guerrero” in Toledo (Spain). After finishing her piano studies with Ludmil Angelov, she felt very interested about singing and starts private tuition with Elvira M. Padín. She moved to Salamanca (Spain) in 2003 where she completed her degree in Ethnomusicology and carried on singing with Teresa Loring. In 2006 she went to Newcastle University (England) with an Erasmus Scholarship and completed afterwards a Master in Music Performance (MMUS) with Richard Wistreich. After that, she wanted to focus in the Early Music repertoire, therefore she studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen (Germany) where she completed both Masters of Early Music Singing and Chamber Music with teachers Maria Cristina Kiehr, Gundula Anders and Jan van Elsacker. She has also accomplish several singing courses with Richard Levitt, David Mason, José Hernández and Lambert Climent (Academia de Música Antigua de Salamanca); she has been involved in Early Music projects working with historical instruments, such as lute and spanish vihuela (Renaissance repertoire), as well as many recitals from 2008 with coach Anthony Davie around the North East of England. She attended many master-classes with Isabel Rey (Zumaia, 2006); Alison Pearce (Royal Academy London, 2008); and Peter Harrison (International Carmona Opera Course, Carmona, 2009).
As a soloist, María Martínez Gabaldón has a wide performance experience. She has sung some opera roles, such as Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Festival Internacional de las Artes de Castilla y León - 2005); Donna and Sirenne in George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo (with Company Newcastle Area Chamber Opera - Newcastle 2007); or Mrs. Peachum in the Kurt Weil's Three Penny Opera. She has experience in sacred music and early music above all: C. Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, many W.A. Mozart's masses, J.S. Bach's Cantatas, François Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres, Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, G.F. Handel's Messiah, etc.
María Martínez Gabaldón has also experience working in choirs: the Bach Choir in Newcastle conducted by Eric Cross (2007-2008), Cantus et Musica in Freiburg (2010-2012), Antología de la Zarzuela in Madrid since 2009 (projects in Qatar with Plácido Domingo), Philarmonischerchor München since 2016 (conducted by Zubin Mehta and Valery Gergiev). She also works often with early music ensembles, such as Musica Ficta (Madrid-Raúl Mallavibarrena), Vocal ensemble Affetti in München and BERNVOCAL (Zwitzerland; Director: Fritz Krämer). She founded the early musica ensemble La Gallarda in 2016 (Trossingen). María works as well regularly with the ensemble Rififi in Trossingen and the Kammerchor Stuttgart (Director: Frieder Bernius).
Currently María Martínez Gabaldón lives in Germany and works as a concert singer, music teacher and choir conductor. |
