Martina Barta & Her Trio:Tribute To Burt Bacharach

Martina Barta & Her Trio
Tribute To Burt Bacharach

Thursday 05/01/2023 from 20:00

Martina Barta is a young, multitalented Czech singer and musician born in Prague, based in Berlin, and performing with diverse music projects at national and international music festivals and music venues worldwide. Martina started her music education at the age of 4 in her hometown Prague, where she took flute, violin and piano lessons during her elementary school years. In 1999, she was accepted to study classical music at the Prague Music College, where she took French horn classes from prof. Vladimira Klánská. In May 2007, she passed her final exams and graduated with honors. Between 2008-2011, she studied at the Prague Conservatory, taking vocal lessons from prof. Naďa Wepperová. In 2011, she was accepted into the Jazz Vocal Bachelor Music Program at the Jazz Institute of the Berlin University of Performing Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin), where she took vocal lessons from professors Judy Niemack and David Friedman. In June 2016, she passed her final exams with honors, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree. In 2017, Martina represented the Czech Republic with the song “My Turn” at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. She regularly collaborates with the Big Band der Deutschen Oper in Berlin, as well as the Big Band of Felix Slováček in Prague. In 2019, Martina started to perform in a duo with the legendary American jazz vibraphonist David Friedman. She also regularly performs with her older sister, Kristina Barta, an equally successful Czech jazz pianist and composer. In 2016, the sisters won 1st prize for the best jazz song of the year (“Find peace of mind”) in the Bohemia Jazzfest music festival. In 2020, Martina and Kristina worked together on the album Love and Passion (Alessa Records) on which they present their original music. In September 2021, Martina started as a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship recipient at the renowned Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she currently takes classes in the Jazz Arts Masters Program (under professor Theo Bleckmann) and expects to complete her degree in May 2023.

Martina Barta – voc; Matti Klein – p; Niklas Lukassen – b; David Haynes – dr; special guest: Ondřej Ruml – voc.

Admission seating CZK 600, standing CZK 300. There is no need to reserve a seat when purchasing a seating ticket.

Band website: www.facebook.com

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