Born in Edinburgh, Malcolm Martineau OBE has appeared regularly at the world’s major concert venues and festivals with artists such as Sir Thomas Allen, Susan Graham, Simon Keenlyside, Magdalena Kožená, Dame Felicity Lott, Thomas Quasthoff, Michael Schade, and Bryn Terfel. At the Wigmore Hall, London he has presented a Britten series, a French song series, and a German song series which was broadcast by the BBC and Songlives, and at the Edinburgh International Festival the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf. He has accompanied in master-classes at the Britten-Pears School (now the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme), Aldeburgh for Dame Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Suzanne Danco, and Ileana Cotrubas. His rich discography includes recordings of Schubert, Schumann, and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel; song recitals with Simon Keenlyside, Angela Gheorghiu, Barbara Bonney, Susan Graham, Magdalena Kožená, and Anne Schwanewilms; the complete Beethoven folk songs; the complete Britten folk songs; the complete songs by Poulenc and Mendelssohn; Schubert’s Winterreise and Schwanengesang with Florian Boesch; Heimliche Aufforderrung and Scene! with Christiane Karg; and Portraits with Dorothea Röschmann. The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) awarded Malcolm Martineau an honorary doctorate in 2004 and appointed him an International Fellow in Accompaniment in 2009. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 New Year Honours List.