Odaline de la Martinez

A most dynamic and gifted musician, with a distinguished reputation in the International Music Scene, award winning composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez pursues a demanding and successful career. She has focused on her composing work since the late 1990s with much success in writing opera. Since 2005, Martinez has been writing her Slavery Opera Trilogy. In 2015 Imoinda (Part I of her Trilogy) received a major composition award from Opera America to work with Opera Ebony in New York City and produced a video of the opera, released in December 2015. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, Martinez was brought up and educated in the USA, furthering her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London and University of Surrey.