What I’m up to:

Juno nominated soprano Martha Guth’s recital and concert highlights include Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, The National Cathedral, St. John Smith Square, The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia, The Lincoln Trio, The Chicago Philharmonic, Voices of Ascension, and many more.  Her longtime recital and touring partners include Graham Johnson and Erika Switzer.  

Her recitals have been recorded and broadcast for the CBC Radio/Radio Canada, the BBC Radio in the U.K and the WDR in Germany and she is proud to have worked under the batons of Maestro’s Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Helmut Rilling, John Nelson, Richard Bradshaw, and Alan Gilbert among many others.

Her discography includes Summer Night, a Juno nominated disc of songs by Healy Willan on Centrediscs for The Canadian Art Song Project with Allyson McHardy, Helen Becqué and Peter Barrett; Das Ewig Weibliche a solo disc of Schubert songs with Penelope Crawford on fortepiano; Roberto Sierra’s Beyond the Silence of Sorrow with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Puerto Rico for Naxos (nominated for a 2016 Latin GRAMMY); John Fitz-Roger’s Magna Mysteria for the Innova label; Go by Contraries, songs of Andrew Staniland with Baritone Tyler Duncan and Pianist Erika Switzer released on Centre Discs, The Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes for Sparks & Co., and The Five Boroughs Song Book for GVR records. Forthcoming is a disc for Naxos of Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Yakima Symphony, along with a few other projects up her sleeve!

With Erika Switzer, she is Co-Founder/Director of Sparks & Wiry Cries, a non-profit dedicated to art song spanning publication, live performance, and commission of new works. Sparks is the force behind the popular regional songSLAM’s that are presented in partnership with other song organizations and Universities all over the world from Slovenia to the U.K., Canada, and every region of the US, and presents its own sparksLIVE productions every January in NYC.  In 2023 as Co-Director of Sparks & Wiry Cries, Martha led a partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society to produce the world premiere of Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight composed by Shawn Okpebholo with performers Rhiannon Giddens, Karen Slack, Will Liverman, Reggie Mobley and Howard Watkins.  As Co-Directors of Sparks & Wiry Cries Martha Guth and Erika Switzer and the projects they champion are ‘Creatives’ for UIA Management.

Martha is Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College, has been Co-Artistic Director and Director of the Composer/Mentorship program at SongFest and remains on faculty there. She also spent three summers on faculty at the Vocal Academy for The Collaborative Piano Institute. She has presented lectures, masterclasses and recitals at the University of Toronto, Indiana University, Univeristy of Madison-Wisconsin, University of Manitoba, Notre Dame, the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and many more. 

Her 2023-2024 season includes a recital and masterclass tour with Graham Johnson at the University of Southern California, Boston Conservatory, and Pepperdine University, A world premiere by Kurt Erikson in Syracuse, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate with the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah in Binghamton, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with the Charleston Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Columbus Pro Musica, Schubert songs with the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Society, A residency in partnership with Oxford Song at Bard and Ithaca College, a recital and Masterclass at the University of Michigan with Erika Switzer and so many new projects and schemes with beloved collaborators – many of whom are listed above, some who are new.  www.marthaguth.com & www.sparksandwirycries.org