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The Spanish soprano, Elionor Martínez Lara, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Singing from the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, where she studied with with Professor Dolors Aldea, thanks to the support of the Fundació Ferrer-Salat, which provided her with a scholarship for her entire schooling. In summer 2023, she completed her Master of Arts degree in Music Performance summa cum laude at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel with Professor Marcel Boone, also under the patronage of the Fundació Salvat. She received the award for the best final Master’s recital of the 2021-2022 academic year. She won the Bach Scholarship - Fundació Salvat 2016, awarded by the Fundació Bach Zum Mitsingen (BZM) Barcelona. She took part in the 3rd Concurs de Cant Josep Palet de Martorell (2019), where she won four special prizes, one of them awarded by the Victoria de los Ángeles foundation.
Elionor Martínez regularly performs with La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Director: Jordi Savall), with whom she last appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 2024. In the 2025-2026 season she toured Europe with Jordi Savall and La Capella Nacional de Catalunya performing the oratorios L.v. Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge and J. Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, and also performed with Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya at venues including the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. As a choral singer, she has also sung with Collegium Vocale Gent (Director: Philippe Herreweghe), Ensemble O Vos Omnes (Director: Xavier Pastrana), Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana (Directors: Simon Halsey and Xavier Puig), and Musica Ficta (Director: Raúl Mallavibarrena). She has performed with other conductors such as Ton Koopman, Andrés Gabetta, Hermes Helfricht, and Salvador Brotons. She has appeared in venues including Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Palau de la Música Catalana, as well as at festivals such as Bachfest Leipzig and the Salzburger Festspiele.
As a recitalist Elionor Martínez participates in the Associació Franz Schubert’s mentoring programme Lied the Future and has performed with piano accompanists Olivia Zaugg and Victoria Guerrero in Switzerland and in Spain. Her solo choral repertoire includes works such as George Frideric Handel's Messiah; J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244, Johannes-Passion BWV 245 and Magnificat in D major BWV 243 and several Catatas; W.A. Mozart's Requiem and Great Mass in C Minor; Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, and Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. Her operatic repertorire includes H. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Cimarosa’s Il convito, and the roles of Fiordiligi in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte and Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola. She has sung with the Bremer Philharmoniker, under the direction of Hermes Helfricht, and has given a concert at this year’s BACHcelona: Festival Bach de Barcelona.
In February 2025 Elionor Martínez participated in the most recent recording by La Capella Nacional de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations under Jordi Savall, singing one of the soprano solos in W.A. Mozart's Mass in C minor. She has been selected by the European Concert Hall Organisation as a Rising Star for the 2026-2027 season and will perform in the most prestigious concert halls across Europe. |
