Tenor Martin Platz received his musical training at the Würzburg University of Music. He studied singing with Martin Hummel and choral conducting with Prof Jörg Straube. He also received many important impulses from Magret Honig and Tilman Lichdi.

Martin Platz is a permanent member of the opera ensemble at the Nuremberg State Theatre, where he has sung roles as a lyric tenor such as Belmonte in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio, Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Steuermann in Wagner’s Flying Dutchman and the HauteContre roles in Rameau’s Platee and Les Indes Galantes. In November 2022, he very successfully sang the title role in Anno Schreier’s world premiere of Alan Turing. Monteverdi’s Orfeo was released as an opera film with Martin Platz in the title role in a production by Bayerischer Rundfunk. In the current 2024/25 season, he can be heard as Tamino in a new production of Mozart’s Magic Flute by Nuremberg ballet director Goyo Montero. He is also on stage as Oronte in Handel’s Alcina and again as Alan Turing in Anno Schreier’s Turing.

Martin Platz has performed many great oratorio works. In the summer of 2022, he sang for the first time at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Jordi Savall, returning there in August 2024 as the soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. He has also made guest appearances at the Styriarte Graz, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Berlioz Festival Cote Saint-Andre, the Philharmonie Paris, the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, the Palau de la Musica Barcelona, the Dresden Music Festival, Milan Cathedral, the Philharmonie im Gasteig Munich, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and many other great concert halls in Germany and Europe. His main focus is on the Evangelist part of Bach’s St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, which, like all other works by J. S. Bach, are close to his heart. He also sings many concerts with music by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Dvorak and many more. Martin Platz has worked with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Jordi Savall, Joana Mallwitz, Christopher Hogwood, Bernhard Labadie, Wolfgang Katschner, Hansjörg Albrecht, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Marcus Bosch, Paul Agnew and Hervet Niquet. Recent CD releases include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations.

In 2025, Martin Platz will launch his solo project Seelenfrieden together with the Lauttencompagney Berlin under the direction of Wolfgang Katschner with early baroque music by Johann Philipp Krieger, among others, with concerts at the Salzburg Mozart Week, the Winter in Schwetzingen, the ION Nuremberg and an accompanying CD production with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

In recent years, he has also performed Schubert’s song cycle ‘Die schöne Müllerin’, Brahms’ “Schönen Magelone”, Hugo Wolf’s “italienisches Liederbuch” and Wolf’s Mörike Lieder on several occasions.

Martin Platz has been teaching singing at the Würzburg University of Music since 2007.