Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music.

Recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Magdalena Kozena, Solveig Kringelborn, Jonathan Lemalu, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Karita Mattila, Lisa Milne, Ann Murray, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Michael Schade, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Walker and Bryn Terfel.

He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall (a Britten and a Poulenc series and Decade by Decade – 100 years of German Song broadcast by the BBC) and at the Edinburgh Festival (the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf). He has appeared throughout Europe (including London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Opera House; La Scala, Milan; the Chatelet, Paris; the Liceu, Barcelona; Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein), North America (including in New York both Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall), Australia (including the Sydney Opera House) and at the Aix en Provence, Vienna, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg Festivals.

Recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon); Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI); recital recordings with Angela Gheorghiu and Barbara Bonney (for Decca), Magdalena Kozena (for DG), Della Jones (for Chandos), Susan Bullock (for Crear Classics), Solveig Kringelborn (for NMA); Amanda Roocroft (for Onyx); the complete Fauré songs with Sarah Walker and Tom Krause; the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion; the complete Beethoven Folk Songs for Deutsche Grammophon; the complete Poulenc songs for Signum; and Britten Song Cycles as well as Schubert’s Winterreise with Florian Boesch for Onyx.

This season’s engagements include appearances with Simon Keenlyside, Magdalena Kozena, Dorothea Röschmann, Susan Graham, Christopher Maltman, Thomas Oliemanns, Kate Royal, Christiane Karg, Iestyn Davies, Florian Boesch and Anne Schwanewilms.

He was a given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2004, and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. Malcolm was the Artistic Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder Festival.

Robin Tritschler, from Ireland, studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, London. Enjoying an international career, Robin has appeared at the Salzburg, Aldeburgh, and Mostly Mozart Festivals, the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, in Carnegie Hall, New York, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, and the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg. Robin was formerly a BBC New Generation Artist, and an Artist in Residence at the Wigmore Hall.
A celebrated song recitalist, Robin is known for his thematic programming and championing of lesser-known repertoire. He regularly performs in Wigmore Hall, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and international festivals; with pianists Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Iain Burnside, Jonathan Ware, and in chamber music with Pekka Kuusisto, Steven Isserlis, Jonathan Biss, Inon Barnatan, Olli Mustonen, Nicholas Daniel, Liza Ferschtman. Robin’s song discs include No Exceptions No Exemptions Great War Songs, and Songs First Cycle (Signum Classics), a Robert Franz Album, and Brahms: The Complete Songs Vol 9 (Hyperion).
Robin has been a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Ensemble Pygmalion, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, under conductors Nézet-Séguin, Sir Mark Elder, Blomstedt, Herrweghe, Manze, Spivakov, Jurowski, Wilson, Stutzmann, Pichon. With the RTECO, Robin gave the first performance of Handel’s Messiah in the Vatican. He has also performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Richard Alston Dance Company, and Fura dels Baus.
On the Opera stage, Robin has performed roles by Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Britten, as well as in modern operas including Wagner Dream by Jonathan Harvey, De Materie by Louis Andriessen, Ça Ira by Roger Waters. His operatic performances on DVD include the world premiere of Das Jagdgewehr by Thomas Larcher from Bregenz Festival, and Fidelio under Sir Antonio Pappano from the Royal Opera House, London.