Martene Grimson became an inaugural Associate Artist of The Mozartists (then Classical Opera) in 2006. She is a former winner of the Maggie Teyte Competition, and won second prize at the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Her previous engagements with The Mozartists include Hyacinthus (Apollo et Hyacinthus), Arbate (Mitridate, re di Ponto), Cinna (Lucio Silla), Aminta (Il re pastore), Sesto in the UK premiére of Gluck’s La clemenza di Tito and concerts at Wigmore Hall and the Barbican. She also appeared on the company’s début CD, ‘The A-Z of Mozart Opera’. Other operatic appearances have included Glauce (Cherubini’s Medea) for Nationale Reisopera, Holland, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) for Opera East and Longborough Festival Opera, Ilia (Idomeneo) for Pinchgut Opera, Sydney, First Witch (Dido and Aeneas) for Opera North, and Laurette (Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle) and Mrs Gleaton (Floyd’s Susannah) for Wexford Festival Opera.