Marta Lambert

Marta Hortobágyi Lambert was born in Greenville, North Carolina, and began her musical studies on piano and violin, later developing a love for viola. A passionate educator and advocate for the arts, Marta holds fellowship positions at The Juilliard School for music history and music theory, and is currently on faculty at Queens Pre-College. Marta’s devotion to chamber music has created opportunities to perform with members of the Alban Berg, Brentano, Ensō, Orion, and Daedalus String Quartets, including performances with Ida Kavafian, Miriam Fried, Colin Carr, Maria Lambros and Michael Kannen. Marta has also performed at music festivals including Prussia Cove, Portland Chamber Music Festival, Four Seasons-Winter Workshop, and Kneisel Hall, where she was a founding member of the prize winning Blue Hill String Quartet. Marta was recently awarded The Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award at The Juilliard School in March 2021, the Dean’s Prize, “the School’s highest excellence award,” at Yale University in May 2019, and is a current recipient of the C.V. Starr Fellowship for doctoral studies at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Roger Tapping and Steve Tenenbom.