EDUCATION

 

Martina was born in Milan on 7th October 1986. She started musical studies in 2000 at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of Milan, where she graduated in recorder and traversiere with the highest marks with M° Giovanni Battista Columbro (conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of Cremona) and in opera singing, first with M° Giovanni Ovidio Mastino (master of, among others, Piero Pretti) and then with M° Delfo Menicucci (vocal coach of, among others, Andrea Bocelli and Francesco Renga). She studied conducting with M° Domenico Zingaro (master of, among others, Alfonso Caiani and Ruben Jais). In 2005 Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi awarded Martina with a letter of commendation for her artistic value. In 2004 she took part in a renaissance music master class held by M° René Clemencic and in 2009 in a conducting master class held by M° Tristan Malbran (Electo Silva's pupil). Since 2011 she has attended the master classes held by M° Jamal Ouassini (Franco Battiato's violinist and arranger) on Arabic music system. In 2012 she studied popular singing at Conservatorio Arrigo Boito of Parma with M° Rossana Casale, than she specialized with M° Gabriella Scalise. In 2016 she started to follow M° Stephen Connolly's workshops (bass in King's Singers from 1987 until 2010) on choral singing and choral conducting.  

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CAREER

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After her studies, Martina started an intense, versatile and eclectic performing activity as opera singer, vocalist, recorder player and conductor, in many Italian, European and American cities such as Genoa, Turin, Cuneo, Novara, Magenta, Vigevano, Varese, Como, Milan, Pavia, Cremona, Mantova, Verona, Boulogne, Rome, Civitanova, Pescara, Salerno, Potenza, Bari, Alghero, Sassari, Bern, Salzburg, Prague, Stockholm, Paris, Malaga, Seville, Granada, Ibiza and New York City. Since 2003 she has been collaborating with “Il Mecenate” art association and since 2010 with the guitarist and composer Giulio Nenna (arranger and session player for, among others, Irama). She was singer, recorder and flute player, arranger and conductor of the Young Mediterranean Ensemble (vocal and instrumental ensemble) for “Kalinifta” music album. In 2011 she worked with the accordion player and composer Antonio Disabato for a Jewish  music album. She taught vocal, rhythm and solfeggio at middle school Cuoco – Sassi, linked to Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi (Milan), opera and modern singing at L’Altramusica school (Milan), at Monguzzi Civic School of Music (Biassono) and at Music Time School (Milan). She conducted the children choir of Collegio delle Dame Inglesi (Merate), the children choir of Istituto Ampezzo Maria Consolatrice (Milan) and the children choir of Istituto Marcelline Quadronno (Milan), initially founded and conducted by M° Ettore Pozzoli. From 2011 to 2017 she conducted Chorus Insubriae, the University of Insubria choir and started to conduct Coro Bocconi Studenti, the Luigi Bocconi University choir, ending in 2023. In 2013 she founded and started conducting the Medit-lab Orchestra, young instrumental ensemble specializing in ethnic music, particularly from Spain and Latin America. She founded and plays and sing, since February 2015, with Eileen Og, a folk band that plays Celtic and country music. She sings also, from the same year, with Cherry Three, a female vocal trio with a repertoire that goes to hot jazz and swing from the 20s to the 60s. Always in 2015 she founded and manage D'Amore e di Musica, an agency of music and entertainment, specialized in organizing events and weddings and started to collaborate with the composer and bass player M° Andrea Donati and his vocal ensemble Humana Vox, at his debut album as a choral composer ("Secular & sacred music for unaccompanied choir") and the next one ("Corpus hermeticum"). In 2016 and 2017 she conducted Wayward Spirit Orchestra through the tour of the show entiteled: Synesthesia. Between 2016 and 2022 she published, with loveliness, fun and passion, three mystery books on Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes e il violoncello scomparso, Sherlock Holmes e le api del Gloucestershire & Sherlock Holmes e i segreti di Southmere Lake), and a music theory book (Appunti di rudimentale teoria musicale per persone rudi), that currently are all available on Amazon. In 2021, despite of the pandemic, she founds a completely eco-sustainable, inclusive and welcoming choral and orchestral reality, called: Voci della Terra (Voices of the Earth). In 2023 she starts working for Mawip S.r.l. as responsible for the marketing and external relations office and like new musical technologies testimonial. Always in 2023 she starts playing and singing with Cuaterdù, a very promising folk dancing quintet. Martina regularly performs as everything she is: a singer, a woodwinds player, a conductor. She dedicates to a constant research in conducting, vocal and flute fields, toward a new musical language mixing cultured classical studies and Mediterranean popular culture, getting inspiration by Ennio Morricone, Dulce Pontes and Lisa Gerrard.

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TODAY

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- Opera and modern singer;

- recorder, traversiere, gems horn, saxonett, thin whistle, low whistle, piano and densoon player;

- singing, woodwinds, solfeggio and piano teacher;

- eco-sustainable Voci della Terra choir conductor;

- arranger;

- composer;

- author.

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