Tenor Martin Platz received his musical education at the Faculty of Music of
Würzburg University. He studied voice with Martin Hummel and choral
conducting with Jörg Straube. He also attended master classes with Magret
Honig and Peter Nelson among others. He has been under the artistic coaching
of Tilman Lichdi for some years now.

Martin Platz is a permanent member of the opera ensemble of the Nuremberg
National Theatre where, as a lyric tenor, he performed roles including Belmonte
in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tamino in Mozart’s Zauberflöte, Don
Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the steersman in Wagner’s Der fliegende
Holländer as well as haute-contre roles in Rameau’s Platée and Les Indes
Galantes. This season his roles include Lindoro in Rossini’s L'italiana in Algeri
and the Evangelist in a dramatic performance of St Matthew Passion by Bach.