Marta Gonçalves

Sara Deborah Struntz

Claire Bracher

Erik Dippenaar

Elektra Miliadou

The Portuguese flautist Marta Gonçalves was awarded the Masters of Music in Advanced Performance with Distinction in 2009 at the Royal College of Music as a scholar, where she studied baroque and classical flute with Rachel Brown and modern flute with Jaime Martín. In July 2007, Marta graduated from the Royal College of Music with First Class, where she began baroque flute lessons in 2004.

Since 2005 she has performed with orchestras and ensembles including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Florilegium, Ex-Cathedra, London Handel Players and Orchestra, English Touring Opera, Orquestra Barroca da Casa da Música and Academy of Ancient Music in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, St. James’ Palace, Casa da Música, Portugal and Lincoln Centre, New York.

As a soloist, she has recently played with the Orquestra Barroca da Casa da Música, directed by Laurence Cummings and RCM Baroque Orchestra. She has also performed within the Brighton Early Music Festival and London Handel Festival and, in 2007, has been awarded Richard III Prize at the RCM Early Music Competition.

As a keen chamber musician, Marta is a member of Ensemble Amaranthos as well as Ensemble Suave, ensemble in collaboration with the Historical Performance Department of the Royal College of Music. With Ensemble Amaranthos she reached the Final Round of the York Early Music Network Young Artists Competition (July 2007). Since 2007 Ensemble Amaranthos have given several recitals in venues such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, as part of St. Martin’s Festival of Early Music (2008) and St. George’s Church, Hanover Square within the London Handel Festival. She has won, with members of Ensemble Amaranthos, the First Prize in the Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition (2008). They were also selected for the Brighton Early Music Live! 2008 and were semi-finalists at the Trossingen Early Music Competition in Germany (January 2009). In September 2009 they gave a successfully acclaimed recital at the Fraenkischer Sommerfest, Germany and more recently have performed at Newbury Spring festival 2011. Future engagements include four performances within ‘Concerts in the West 2011’, appearances at Cambridge Early Music Festival and Bedford Music Club.

She has been awarded the Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians 2009.