Canadian soprano Martha Angeline Guth began her career singing under the batons of world renowned conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Richard Bradshaw, Robert Spano, Helmut Rilling and Stephen Lord. She was the winner of the 2001 Jeunesse Musicales competition, second place winner of the CBC Young Musicians Competition, and a finalist at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. She was also the recipient of a very sizable grant from the Canada Council to study abroad in Augsburg, Germany with soprano Edith Wiens, and lived there for two years. During her time there, aside from concert work, Martha specialized in Mozart roles, perofrming Pamina in The Magic Flute, Constanza in The Abduction from the Seraglio in Augsburg, and the First Lady in The Magic Flute in the Grazer Oper in Graz, Austria.

Concerts this year include Santa Fe Symphony, The Sudwestdeutsche Rundfunk in Stuttgart, and concerts in Augsburg, Munich and Bad Reichenhall Germany. Similar to previous years, next year, Martha will be recording for the CBC and Radio Canada through her Debut Atlantic tour in 2006-2007. The past two summers Martha was a Young Artist at the Santa Fe Opera and covered two leading roles with them, Agrippina in Handel's Agrippina, and Giunia in Mozart's Lucio Silla. Martha Was also a member of the prestigious Studio Ensemble at the Canadian Opera Company for two years. With them she performed Cornelia in Sartorio's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, and covered Corinna in Rossini's Il Viaggio a Rheims, Cleopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar, and Illia in Idomeneo. Other opera credits include the title role in Handel's Alcina, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, and Poulenc's La voix Humaine for solo voice. Martha's training was completed at both the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B. Mus.,1998) and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.,2001).