Biography
With great respect and admiration for the world of classical singing, Anna Martínez Norberto combines her lirica leggera soprano voice with a poetic voice, transforming poems into songs.
LYRIC SOPRANO
My voice is that of a lirica leggera soprano. I have great respect and admiration for the world of classical singing and its great performers.
Thanks to the versatility of my voice, I can sing Opera, Zarzuela, Lied, and Oratorio.
Technique and experience, combined with the feeling of each piece—whether aria, romance, or lied—make each concert for me something unique, magical, and thus a gift for the listener, for the audience.
Through singing, I manage to express the deepest, most sincere, and most authentic emotions of my soul.
I hold a professional singing degree from the Conservatori de Música de Badalona, studying with mezzo-soprano Montserrat Comadira.
I specialized in Opera, studying for a Higher Degree at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu with Maestro Enric Serra.
Studies in speech therapy, modern singing, jazz singing, and lied with mezzo-soprano Mª Dolors Cortés.
Studies in phoniatrics and speech therapy applied to spoken and sung voice, and “belting” technique with professor André Barroso (psychologist, phoniatrician, and singer).
Body and voice work using the Feldenkrais Method with Ohad Nachmani, Linklater Method (voice and movement), Alexander Technique, and Rolfing Movement with Hervé Baunard.
Stage training with Miquel Górriz, Jordi Vilà, and Ricardo Boluda.
Winner of the “Mirna Lacambra” Singing Competition 2011 in the role of Berta in “Il barbiere di Siviglia” by Rossini, performing this opera with the Vallès Symphony Orchestra.
Highlighted performances with Juventudes Musicales de España, Open Days at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lyric Galas, Summer Festivals, and private Operatic Productions.
Notable solo performances for companies such as Codorniu, Swarovski, Peugeot, Viena, Desigual, La Caixa. In venues such as MACBA, University of History of Barcelona, Memorial Democràtic de Catalunya, etc.
Soloist collaborator with the Coral Càrmina: Auditori de Barcelona, Sacred Music series at the Monastery of St. Cugat, International Organ Festival in Igualada, VEUS Festival. Recent solo performances at the Josep Soler Festival, Opera en Ruta Festival of Barcelona, and Nits al Port de Badalona Festival.
Professional degree in classical guitar, studying with Juan Francisco Garrido and José Luís Lopátegui at the Conservatori Superior de Música Municipal de Barcelona, and later at the Professional Conservatory of Badalona with Vicenç Mayol, with whom I also worked on early music specialization.
Currently promoting various personal projects, both lyric and modern.
Pedagogical Collaborator
I firmly believe that through the arts: visual arts, dance, theater, and music, one can perform highly efficient individual and social work, improving aptitudes, capacities, and disabilities; recognizing and managing attitudes and emotions; learning the value of culture as humanity’s heritage; learning and reaffirming human values; improving coexistence.
With music as a transversal axis, I work with all school ages, from early childhood, starting from nursery school, through adolescence, including children with physical and psychological disabilities.
Through my Social and Educational Projects, I provide the necessary tools to students and the teaching staff of each Center, to work on each proposal conscientiously and achieve the expected objectives.
Master classes in musical pedagogy and training with Mark Withers and Fernando Palacios.
Theatrical Creation Course (applied to pedagogy) with Ricardo Boluda at El Timbal. Neurological Music Therapy Course at the BCN Music Therapy Center with Ana García.
More than 25 years of experience working in music teaching with all ages and levels in the specialty of classical and modern guitar, classical and modern singing, and direction of combos and children’s, youth, and adult choirs.
Founder and co-director of the Music Workshop MUSICART SARRIÀ, since 1996.
Founder of ESTUDI DE CANT AMN since 2020.
At an organizational level, musical direction, participation and promotion of choral groups, combos and chamber music in Major Festivals: La Mercè, Sta. Eulàlia, Sarrià, Guinardó, Music Festival, Music in Parks, Civility events for Barcelona, Vila-seca Street Music Fair, chamber music Cycles at the Civic Centers and Libraries of Barcelona, Barcelona Symphonic Festival, benefit Concerts and Galas.
Collaborator, for four seasons, as vocal coach, in “El Messies Social” Project by La Caixa with musicians from the Vallès Symphony Orchestra. Conducting musical workshops in schools with children at risk of social exclusion and in reception centers.
Teacher of Basic Vocal Technique, Lyric Singing and Modern/Jazz Singing in the Open Courses for Adults at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music, from the 2016/17 to 2020 academic year.
In the 2017/18 academic year, collaborating musician for the PAE Educational Activities of the Barcelona City Council and pedagogical collaborator in public and private Primary, Secondary and High School centers with her own Educational Projects:
Composer and author of La Sirena i els Amics del Mar, a children’s musical tale for voice, cello, flute and percussion, based on the most important human values to learn in childhood.
Composer and author of the performance Al Mar Maragall, poems by poet Joan Maragall transformed into songs, for voice, guitar, cello and percussion.
Composer and author of the performance Antología Poética Española, poems by the most important Spanish poets in our history, transformed into songs for voice, guitar and percussion.
Author of the Project La Violència Secreta, a pedagogical workshop through theatrical and musical staging for the prevention of gender violence and abuse against women.
POETIC VOICE
As the romantic woman that I am, and feeling music as the driving force of life, I immerse myself in poetry, transforming it into songs.
Through reading, I enter the poems and the character of each poet, and through singing and instrumental accompaniment, I make known the work and the person.
Words become melodies… Verses become stanzas… And poems become songs.
Composer and author of the performance Al Mar Maragall, poems by poet Joan Maragall transformed into songs, for voice, guitar, cello, percussion and sound effects.
Composer and author of the performance Antología Poética Española, poems by the most important Spanish poets in our history, transformed into songs for voice, guitar, cello, percussion and sound effects.
