Marta Infante
mezzo-soprano (Spain)
She was born in Lleida (Catalonia), where she also studied piano, violin and singing. She continued in singing studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava with Doc. Drahomíra Mičková.
She has sung with Orquesta Nacional de Espana, Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Filarmónica de Málaga, Sinfónica de Madrid, Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta Nacional de El Salvador, Sinfónica Región de Murcia a spolupracovala s dirigenty jako Jordi Casas, Josep Vila, J. Ramón Encinar, Aldo Ceccato, L. Botstein, Michael Thomas, Case Scaglione, Kynan Jonhs, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Edmon Colomer, Kees Bakels, Robert Howarth, Carlos Kalmar, Victor Pablo Pérez, Paul Daniels and others.
She has sung the early music at many European festivals such as Venice Biennale, The Bijloke (Belgium), Festival Baroque de Sable (France), Janacek ´s May, the International Festival of Sacred Music in Oslo (Norway), Concentus Moravie, Festival International de Sacrées Musiques de Fribourg (Switzerland), the Cervantes Institutes in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, at the Festival of Early Music in Havana (Cuba), in El Salvador, Japan and performed also in Chile, Uruguay and at the Mozarteum in Argentina and Brazil.
In Spain, she collaborates regularly with ensambles La Caravaggio, Concierto Espanol, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, La Galanía, La Capilla Real de Madrid, Orquesta Barroca Catalana, Los Músicos de su Alteza, Hippocampus, Academia 1750, abroad with Collegium 1704, with ensemble Anthonello (Japan), Dresden's Baroque Orchestra, The Israel Barrocade ensemble, Ars Longa (Cuba). She performed under the baton of leading conductors of our time, such as Václav Luks, Enrico Onoffri, Giovanni Antonini, F.M. Sardelli, Paul Goodwin, Ottavio Dantone, Richard Egarr and Rinaldo Alesandrini.
She forms a permanent duo with the baroque harp player Manuel Vilas and with him she performed at many festivals such Via Stellae, Clasicos de Verano in Madrid, Música en los Jardines del Alcázar de Sevilla, Fundación J. March in Madrid, Summer Festivities of Early Music in Prague, Festival de Música antigua de Aranjuez, Tomás Luis de Victoria de Ávila Festival, FEMAP, Febrero Lirico en El Escorial etc. Along with Manuel Vilas also acquired numerous recordings such Tonos al Arpa and Cantate Contarini (Venetian baroque cantatas for alto and basso contiuo, which won the Prelude Classical Music Prize in the Netherlands as one of the 10 best albums of Early Music in 2010).
She recorded for Mezzo, Czech Radio, RTVE, Catalunya Música and for music publishing Alpha, Glossa, Enchiriadis, Anima e corpo, Verso, EMEC and CDM. From her numerous CD recordings we could highlight Telemann´s cantatas for alto, Carissimi´s Jephte, Oratorio romano of Camilla de Rossi, Merul´s Pegasus, operas Amor aumenta el valor and Iphigenia en Tracie by José de Nebra, and Vivaldi´s Judith Triumphans under the conducting of Ottavio Dantone.
Artist appears on the following concerts: