Malcolm Martineau

Although most carefully identified with Welsh bass baritone Bryn Terfel, with whom he has appeared and documented to stunning effect, Malcolm Martineau has generated himself independently one of the cream of singers and instrumentalists through the United kingdom Isles and beyond. Among an extraordinary third era of accompanists following a great Gerald Moore, Martineau combines a thorough technique, unfaltering musicality, and the capability to collaborate at the best level with performers of widely differing temperaments and methods. He offers wisely produced his way within an section of musical effort once thought to be extremely unpromising and is becoming something of the star in carrying it out. Martineau, within the English expression, go through music at St. Catherine’s University at Cambridge, Britain. In 1981, he continuing his studies in the Royal University of Music, where he mainly caused Joyce Rathbone, but additionally analyzed with Geoffrey Parsons, that paragon among all the post-Moore accompanists. Involved mainly because an accompanist for the Walther Grüner International Lieder Competition, Martineau was himself successful, having been selected as finest accompanist. He performed for the champion from the lieder award in the Cardiff Vocalist of the Globe Competition in 1989 which event ended up being unexpectedly fortuitous: the first-place vocalist was Terfel and both artists would consequently appear together frequently with the worldwide spotlight trained in it. The following 12 months, he was an accompaniest in the Elly Ameling Competition, once more dealing with the earning artist. In the Britten-Pears College at Aldeburgh, Martineau offers accompanied in grasp classes distributed by such luminaries as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Suzanne Danco, Joan Sutherland, Kurt Equiluz, and Ileana Cotrubas. Under his personal name, he offers presented two essential series on track. At St. John’s Smith Square in London, he provided a string on the entire tunes of Debussy and Poulenc with London’s venerable Wigmore Hall, he carried out a series specialized in Benjamin Britten’s vocal functions. Both series had been broadcast from the BBC. Martineau offers, furthermore to showing up at some of the most essential British celebrations, performed in the Salzburg, Vienna, and Aix-en-Provence celebrations in addition to on trips throughout North and SOUTH USA. Recitals took him to many major European towns, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Berlin, and Milan included in this. The set of performers for whom he provides provided accompaniment is certainly intensive and multinational: Dame Janet Baker, Felicity Lott, Thomas Allen, Sarah Walker, Frederica von Stade, Tom Krause, Amanda Roocroft, Barbara Bonney, Anne-Sofie von Otter, John Tag Ainsley, Susan Graham, Joan Rodgers, Della Jones, Olaf Bär, Karita Mattila, and Simon Keenlyside included in this. Furthermore, his shows with instrumentalists are similarly convincing. He provides collaborated with clarinetist Emma Johnson both in live show and recording. Types of Martineau’s versatility in recorded efficiency may be within his use such different performers as Susan Graham and Terfel. With Graham, the accompanist documented a recital of tracks by Ned Rorem, an American composer with high consider for both France elegance and American simpleness. With Graham’s luminous performing and immediate diction, Martineau presents exemplary interplay, neither overstated nor as well acquiescent. For the a lot more extroverted Terfel, Martineau is definitely attentive to the comprehensive dynamics well-liked by the vocalist. In discs specialized in Schubert lieder, British tracks, Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39, and Ballads and Romances, he works with his singer’s brilliant interpretations, often acquiring real magic, specifically in the disk devoted to British song.