Bio
Martina Sabariego started her musical career at the age of seven. She started her music studies at the conservatory of Torrent, in the countryside of Valencia (Spain). Her musicality with the classical guitar made her achieve the Extraordinary Award in Classical Performance, and after ten years of studying at the Conservatory, she got accepted at the prestigious Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona) for her undergraduate studies in Classical Contemporary Composition, where she studied with Cristopher Havel, Eduard Resina, Fèlix Pastor, and guitarist Laura Anne Young, among others. She graduated during the Pandemic, and as many others, she moved back home for the lockdown. During her stay in Valencia, she joined Sedajazz, an independent jazz collective, where she started playing the upright bass from scratch. After those two years of being back home, she released her debut album called «XANOXANO» (Sedajazz Records, 2023), nominated as Best New Artist at the 2023 Carles Santos Awards.
Being part of the Sedajazz community made her fall in love with jazz, and that passion made her get accepted and awarded a Dean’s Scholarship for her Graduate Studies at the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA), where she studied with Ken Schaphorst, John Lockwood, Marshall Gilkes, Joe Morris, among others. During her stay at NEC, she created her award winning Martina Sabariego's Big Band, with which she released her second album called «Forces and Battlements» (Sedajazz Records, 2025). In 2025, she also got accepted and awarded a full scholarship at the prestigious program Global Jazz Institute at Berklee College of Music, where she is currently pursuing her Master’s in Jazz Performance, studying with Danilo Perez, Linda May Han Oh, John Patitucci, among other jazz international relevant figures, with the support of AIE Artistas of Spain.
Martina has toured and recorded with several bands of many kinds: Martina Sabariego’s Band, Martina Sabariego’s Big Band, Jove Big Band de Sedajazz, El Pony Pisador, and also with the most important figures of Valencian Traditional Music: Pep Gimeno “Botifarra” and Vicent Torrent. Her music has sounded at the Jazz Festival of Valencia, at Jordan Hall (Boston, MA), Palau Reina Sofia (Valencia), Paranimf de Barcelona, Dizzy's Club (New York), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), Culturgest (Lisbon), among many others places.