Marta Vicente
Marta Vicente was born in Lisbon. She began her musical studies at the Fundação Musical dos Amigos das Crianças, in the double bass classes of Professors Adriano Aguiar and Pedro Wallenstein. She also studied with Alejandro Erlich-Oliva and Duncan Fox.
She holds a degree in Double Bass and Violone from the Early Music and Historical Performance Practices Department of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Netherlands), where she studied under Margaret Urquhart. She has attended masterclasses with Rainer Zipperling, Margaret Urquhart, Sigiswald Kuijken, Mieneke van der Velden, Ton Koopman, Jacques Ogg, Patrick Ayrton, Charles Toet, Richard Gwilt, Peter Holtslag and Daniël Brüggen.
She collaborates with internationally specialised ensembles such as La Grande Chapelle, Ludovice Ensemble, Capella Patriarchal, Concerto Campestre, Luthers Bach Ensemble, New Dutch Academy, Wallfisch Band, Opera2Day, Suave Melodia, Sete Lágrimas and Divino Sospiro.
She has performed at numerous festivals and in many concerts in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Finland, Malta, Brazil, Mexico and Japan.
She regularly performs with the Sinfonietta de Lisboa and has appeared with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
She has worked under the direction of Enrico Onofri, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Harry Christophers, Alfredo Bernardini, Chiara Banchini, Cecilia Bernardini, Massimo Spadano, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Vittorio Ghielmi, Alberto Grazzi, Kenneth Weiss, Ketil Haugsand, Riccardo Doni, Vanni Moretto, Marc Hantaï, Peter van Heyghen, Albert Recasens and Michel Corboz.
She has recorded approximately twenty discs for labels such as Naxos, Lauda, Dynamic, Pan Classics, Nichion, among others, as well as for radio stations Antena 2 and Radio France, and for the television channels Mezzo and RTP.