This pianist from Guipuzcoa won the first end-of-year prize in San Sebastián at the age of 16 and then studied at Europe’s most prestigious schools – CNSM in Paris where she studied with D. Merlet, Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid with D. Bashkirov and at Academia Marshall with Alicia de Larrocha, always achieving the very highest marks.

Marta won important prizes at international competitions including Santander, as the best Spanish pianist, Darmstadt,  Jaén and  Pilar Bayonna, and her career as a concert performer involves recitals and symphonic orchestras such as those of Euskadi, Bilbao, Extremadura, Castilla y León, Murcia, RTVE, Comunidad de Madrid, Galicia, Córdoba, Málaga, Granada, Valencia, English Chamber, London Symphonic, Berlin Symphonic and the Reina Sofía, under the baton of such outstanding conductors as  Sir Colin Davis, Daniele Gatti, Harry Christophers, S. Comissiona, C. Mandeal, M. Venzago, G. Varga, G. Neuhold, J. C. Spinossi, G. Pelhivanian, J. Mena, D. Wilson, L. Pfaff, J. M. Encinar, J. Amigo,  M. Bragado, G. I. Ramos and  C. Wilkins.

Marta Zabaleta performs chamber music with the cellist Asier Polo, with whom she debuted in Carnegy Hall, with the pianist Miguel Borges Coelho and the Ysaie quartet.

Her first recordings are already on sale: two with the EMI international label, the work of Joaquín  Rodrigo; one with the Swiss label CLAVES, the Basque piano concert by Escudero; one with the RTVE label, the concert for two pianos by M. Pompey; Granados’ Goyescas with the label “La mà de guido”; and with the cellist Asier Polo, one with BBK and another with IBS Classic.

She teaches at Musikene, the Basque Country higher music centre, and is the director of the Academia Marshall in Barcelona as per the expressed desire of her predecessor, Alicia de Larrocha. She has been a visiting professor at prestigious European music schools including Hoghschule in Colonia and Trinity Laban in London, and on other continents at Bogotá University and Aukland University in New Zealand.

Marta was awarded the Albéniz medal by the Isaac Albéniz Public Foundation.