Zoë Martlew studied at the Royal College and Academy of Music, Clare College, Cambridge and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. She performs and records over the world as soloist and with many contemporary music groups, rock, pop and electronica artists including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Ceramic Dog, Plaid and Katie Melua.

She has worked extensively in dance and theatre as composer/performer, including Ballet Black at the Lindbury Studio, Royal Opera House; Avant-Garde Collaboration (ballet) Co’s Fin du Temps in Boston; M.D. for the Ballet Boyz show Encore at Sadlers Wells and productions at the Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre. 

Recent projects include her one-woman cabaret show Z Unleashed; improvisation comedy group Impropera, Leicester Square Theatre; a judge on BBC2 TV's Maestro; commentator/presenter for the BBCTV Proms, BBC 2 Newsnight Review and Radio 3 Hear and Now and a judge on the UK panel for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.

She is much in demand for educational activities and has worked with disabled and autistic children, drug addicts, in prisons, universities and music colleges.

www.zoemartlew.com