Recognised at the highest international level as one of the UK’s leading accompanists, Malcolm Martineau has performed worldwide alongside the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Florian Boesch, Elīna Garanča, Dame Sarah Connolly, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter, Günther Groissböck and Sonya Yoncheva.
He has appeared at the world’s principal venues including Alice Tully Hall, Barbican Centre, Berlin State Opera, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Gran Theatre del Liceu, Mariinsky Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, Munich Opera, Paris Opera and Salle Gaveau, Royal Opera House, La Scala, Sydney Opera House, Teatro Real, Salzburg Mozarteum, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Musikverein and State Opera, Walt Disney Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Zurich Opera amongst others. Malcolm has also appeared at the Aix-en-Provence, Vienna, and Salzburg Festivals. He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall and at the Edinburgh Festival.
As a prolific recording artist, Martineau’s discography of over 100 CDs includes the following Award-winning recordings: ‘The Vagabond’ with Sir Bryn Terfel (Gramophone Award), ‘Songs of War’ with Sir Simon Keenlyside (Grammy and Gramophone Awards), Schumann and Mahler Lieder with Florian Boesch (BBC Music Magazine Award), Mahler Lieder with Christiane Karg (Diapason d’or), and ‘El Nour’ with Fatma Said (Gramophone Award).

Malcolm 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. He was the Artistic Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder Festival and is a Professor of piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music and an Honorary Doctor and International Fellow of Accompaniment at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He was made an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours for his services to music and young singers.

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.