  
Martina Borst was born in Aachen and studied singing with Elsa Cavelti at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and with Carla Castellani in Milan. She is a winner of the VDMK competition.
The Mezzosoprano was member of the opera houses of Mannheim, Dortmund and Hanover, where she has developed a wide repertoire of roles, including almost all the main parts from “Orpheus” to “Komponist” and “Oktavian”.
Guest contracts led her to the opera houses of Berlin(Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper), Munich, Vienna, Dresden, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Geneva, Liège, Parma, Modena, Ravenna and Buenos Aires, among others, where she has worked with conductors as Lorin Maazel, Bruno Weil, Alberto Zedda, Eliahu Inbal, James Conlon, Donald Runnicles, Peter Schneider, and Marcello Viotti.
Further engagements have taken her to Music Festivals like the Festspiele in Salzburg (Elektra; L Maazel), Bregenz (Niklas in Tales of Hoffmann), Ludwigsburg (La Clemenza di Tito and Semele), and also to Schwetzingen (Jommelli: Demofoonte and Pergolesi: Stabat mater).
At the Teatro Regio in Parma and other opera houses in Italy, she sung the Italian first performance of Idomeneo as Idamante, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock.
More recently, she made her debut with the parts of the Countess Geschwitz (Lulu), Jezibaba (Rusalka) and Julius Caesar. In November 2005 she was to be heard in the part of the Countess in Siegfried Wagners opera “Der Kobold”.
In march 2006 she was on stage with the Baltic Opera Gdansk as Oktavian in various german opera houses.
Martina Borst has appeared in the major concert halls of Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Stuttgart, Munich, Leipzig, Paris, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Turin, Rome, Moscow and Barcelona.
Invitations to Concert Festivals took her to the Dresden Music Festival, the international Bach Academy in Stuttgart, to the Rheingau-Festival , to the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Wiener Kunstverein(Schubertiade), the Richard-Strauss-Tage, and so forth, where she has worked alongside conductors like Michael Gielen, Bernhard Klee, Frieder Bernius, Peter Neumann and Hartmut Haenchen. In 2005 she accepted an invitation to sing concerts with Bach and Handel at the German-Chinese Cultural Week in Shianghai.
Of her numerous CD-recordings, mention should especially be made of “Cosi fan tutte”, Pergolesis “Stabat Mater”, Hindemiths “Neues vom Tage”, and of her recording of Jommellis “La Didone abbandonata” which received special appreciation from the music magazine “Gramophone”, and of the Mass in E Flat Major of Schubert, which awarded the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.
“La Cenerentola” under the direction of Alberto Zedda has just come out(Naxos).
Additionally, television productions for ORF(Cosi fan tutte) and ARD and ZDF, as well as numerous radio recordings amply document Martina Borsts rich artistic output.
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