Martene Grimson

Martene Grimson sang with us in March 2011 in our performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus.  Martene graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before moving to London where she completed her studies at the Royal College of Music’s Benjamin Britten Opera School and at the National Opera Studio. She was supported by the Royal Opera House, Countess of Munster Musical Scholarship and the Madeline Finden Memorial Award.  Martene was awarded second prize in the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Competition and has given recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival, Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House (in the Linbury Studio and Crush Room), St John’s Smith Square, Fairfield Hall and the Harrogate Festival.

Recent concert engagements include Pulcinella with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti with the Bayerischer Rundfunk, a concert performance as Dorinda Orlando with Independent Opera at the Wigmore Hall, a Strauss tour of the UK for Raymond Gubbay, Haydn with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment London and Bristol, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Chichester Festival, and Brahms’ Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall.

 

Operatic engagements include Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Melia (Apollo and Hyacinthus), Ilia (Idomeneo), First Witch (Dido and Aeneas), Mrs Gleaton in Floydd’s Susannah and Laurette in Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle. With the Classical Opera Company she has sung Hyacinthus (Apollo and Hyacinthus), Aminta (Il Re Pastore) and Cinna (Lucio Silla). Recent engagements include her debut for the Nationale Reisopera as Glauce Medea, Howard Goodall’s Requiem Eternal Light with the Rambert Dance Company, a concert with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Handel’s Israel in Egypt in France, Handel’s cantata Alpestre Monte with the Classical Opera Company, Sivene (Le Cinesi) with Bampton Classical Opera at the Wigmore Hall, and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Longborough Festival Opera.

 

Future engagements include Despina (Così fan tutte) for Longborough Festival Opera, Nanetta (Falstaff) with Mid-Wales Opera, and performances of The Giacomo Variations with John Malkovich in Vienna, Sydney, Lyon and Versailles.