Elionor Martínez Lara soprano

Elionor Martinez Lara studied for her bachelor’s degree at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu with Prof. Maria Dolors Aldea, with a scholarship from the Ferrer-Salat Foundation. She then continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel with Prof. Marcel Boone, with the support of the Salvat Foundation (Fundación Salvat), and won the prize for the “Best Master Recital”.

In 2016, she was granted the Salvat Beca Bach scholarship by the Bach Zum Mitsingen Foundation in Barcelona. She took part in the Josep Palet Competition in 2019 and was awarded four special prizes.

As a soloist, she has appeared in Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor and Requiem, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem among others. She has performed roles in opera productions such as Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Cimarosa’s Il Convito, Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Rossini’s La Cenerentola. She has sung with the Bremer Philharmoniker, conducted by Hermes Helfricht, and with the Bachcelona Consort, under the direction of Ton Koopmann. She has given song recitals at the Mizmorim Festival in Basel.

She sings regularly with La Capella Reial de Catalunya under the direction of Jordi Savall, with the Collegium Vocale Gent under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, Ensemble O Vos Omnes under the direction Xavier Pastrana, Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana under the direction of Simon Halsey and Xavier Puig, and with Musica Ficta under the direction of Raúl Mallavibarrena.