
About
Marta Mata is a young Portuguese pianist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Regarded by her expressive and passionate playing, Marta's solo performances are complemented by her participation in various chamber music projects, where she has premiered works by several Portuguese composers. She has performed in many halls, namely CCB, Muziekgebouw, Museu do Oriente, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Picadeiro Real, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Theatro Thalia and Palácio Marquês de Fronteira.
Marta has won awards in competitions like Oeiras Piano Competition (1st Prize) and INATEL/OML Prize.
She graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, in the class of Professor Aleksandar Madžar, after completing her master's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Professor Frank van de Laar, supported by a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She began her higher education at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, earning a degree in Piano for Chamber Music and Accompaniment.
She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Music Education at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.
Email: martamata_1997@hotmail.com
Resume
— education —
2025 - Present
Master of Music in Ped, Major in Piano
Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa
Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - 2025
Master of Music, Major in Piano
Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
Professor Aleksandar Madžar
Brussels, Belgium
2020 - 2023
Preparatory Course
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Professor Frank van de Laar
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 - 2019
Bachelor Degree in Piano for
Chamber Music and Accompaniment
Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra
Professor Paulo Oliveira
Lisbon, Portugal
— prizes —
September 2021
Scholarship "Formação em Artes no Estrangeiro" by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
June 2019
Oeiras Piano Competition - 1st Prize in Category E
February 2019
Prize INATEL/OML
March 2016
Prize Vitor Macedo Pinto
— important past
performances —
2024 / 2025
Musée des Instruments de Musique (Brussels, BE)
Solo Antena 2 Concert (Lisbon, PT)
“João Camacho - Canções Vol. I”: Album and Antena 2 Concert (Lisbon, PT)
2023
Some Like it Modern: in Grachtenfestival (Amsterdam, NED), Palmela International Saxophone Festival (Palmela, PT), Oranjewoud Festival (Oranjewoud, NED), and Muziekgebouw aan ‘t Ij (Amsterdam, NED)
Solo Recital at Sociedade Filarmónica Humanitária de Palmela (Palmela, PT)
Before 2023
(2022) “Trio e Arranjo”, chamber music with musicians from Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (Lisbon, PT)
(2022) Solo recital at Papageno Huis (Laren, NED)
(2019) Soloist with Orquestra Académica da Metropolitana at Cineteatro da Academia Almadense (Almada, PT)
(2019) Orchestra musician in Orquestra Sinfónica Metropolitana at Festival “Dias da Música” at CCB (Lisbon, PT)
(2018) Orchestra musician in Orquestra Sinfónica Metropolitana at Auditorio Nacional de Música (Madrid, ES)
(2015) Solo Recital at Teatro das Figuras (Faro, PT)
— masterclasses —
2024
Henry Kramer; Olga Zdorenko; Amy Lin
2023
Mariam Batsashvili; Nino Gvetadze; Paul Komen; Dejan Lazić
2022
Vladimir Viardo; Alexander Kandelaki; Aleksandar Madžar
2019
Naum Grubert; Lucas Debargue; Xavier Gagnepain
2018
Boris Berman; Josep Colom; Jura Margulis;
2017 and before
Vladimir Tropp; Craig Sheppard;
Katia Veekmans-Cieszkowski; Marles van Gent