Marta Bauzà is a Spanish-German soprano born in Pollença (Mallorca). She started her voice studies at the Conservatorio de Música del Liceu with soprano Carmen Bustamante and continued with tenor Francisco Araiza at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart in Germany, where she graduated in 2015 with honourable mention. At this same school she obtained a master’s degree with soprano Ulrike Sonntag. She has further completed her academic training in masterclasses with Dolora Zajick, Malcom Walker, Margret Honig, Barbara Bonney, Lionel Sarrazin, Juan Pons and Ernesto Palacio. Her interest in music and culture have her led to pursue a master in Cultural Management at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
She has won awards in many voice competitions, standing out her second prize in Concurso Internacional de Canto de Balaguer in 2016, the special prize of Ferrer-Salat at the Francisco Viñas Inernational Singing competition also in 2016 or the “Jared dels tarongers” prize in the 25th Josep Mirabent I Margins Competition in Sitges in 2019.
Marta’s opera debut was in the role of Isidra Guzmán (Maria Moliner, A. Parera) at the Teatre Principal de Palma in 2015. In 2017 she was selected as a member of the Opera Studio at the opera National du Rhin (France) where she had the opportunity to debut roles such as Sheherazade (Sindbad, H. Moody), Garsenda (Francesca da Rimini, R. Zandonai), Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia, G. Rossini) or Amirah (La princesse Arabe, J.C. de Arriaga). She has also the opportunity to sing at the Teatro alla Scala in Milán as Garsenda under the direction of Fabio Luisi.
Once she ended her Opera Studio training, her engagements have taken her to the stages of the Auditorio de Tenerife, the Teatro Principal of Palma, the Strasbourg Opera, the Palau de la Música Catalana or the Teatro Real in Madrid. Among the roles she has already debuted Micaela (Carmen, G. Bizet), Juliette (Les contes d’Hoffmann, J. Offenbach), Susanna and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro, W.A.Mozart), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni, W.A.Mozart) and Liú (Turandot, G. Puccini) stand out, having worked with conductors such as Michele Gamba, Alexandra Cravero, Howard Moody, Giuliano Carella, Nicola Luisotti or Giuseppe Finzi.
She also performs Lied programs and oratorio regularly, including J.S.Bach’s Christmas Oratorium, Requiem and Missa Brevis by W.A.Mozart, Sommernachstraum and Von Himmel Hoch by F. Mendelssohn or El Pessebre by P. Casals.
Marta also takes very active part in the rediscovery of the repertoire of Majorcan composers.
