Equally at home on the concert and operatic stages, Marta Fontanals-Simmons has emerged as a ‘strong artistic personality and an unflinchingly direct communicator on the international stage’ (Presto Music).
Marta is originally from Somerset, England with dual British and Spanish nationality. Marta gained her Bachelor of Music degree at Birmingham University where she continued piano and voice training at Birmingham Conservatoire and continued to play violin in the university orchestras. She then achieved her MMus, MPerf and Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London with professor Marilyn Rees. Marta is proud to be a Trustee for the Jackdaws Educational Trust, a mentor for SingersResound Charity and gives her time advocating for music and song at events, competitions and masterclasses for singers of all ages.
Marta has performed with Graham Johnson at Wigmore Hall, Iain Burnside at the Bath International Music Festival, Wigmore Hall and Lammermuir Festival, Roger Vignoles at the Juan March Foundation, Madrid, Christopher Glynn at the Barber Institute Concert Series, Simon Lepper at Lille Opera and for BBCRadio3, Joanna McGregor & Lana Bode at the Aldeburgh Festival, Bengt Forsberg at Den Norske Opera, Sholto Kynoch at the Oxford International Song Festival, LifeVictoria Barcelona, Blackheath Halls London and the Zeist Lieder Festival, Netherlands.
This season Marta returns to The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Linda in the much anticipated opera Festen* by Mark-Anthony Turnage, to Britten Pears Arts for a recital with Lana Bode and Fauré Requiem, Alexandra Palace Mendelssohn Elijah, the Royal Albert Hall Handel Messiah, Mozart Requiem with RPO, Handel Messiah with BBCNOW and looks forward to recitals with the Erda Ensemble at Leeds Lieder and Presteigne Festival.
Equally at home on the concert and operatic stages, Marta Fontanals-Simmons has emerged as a ‘strong artistic personality and an unflinchingly direct communicator on the international stage’ (Presto Music). Marta is originally from Somerset, England with dual British and Spanish nationality. Marta gained her Bachelor of Music degree at Birmingham University where she continued piano […]
