Norwegian tenor Martin Enger Holm is born in Oslo and currently a young artist at Landestheater Linz (Austria) during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 seasons.
He holds a Bachelor of Music (2019) & Master of Arts (2021) degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London where he received their prestigious Entrance Scholarship and was a Josephine Baker Trust Scholar, before also graduating from the Norwegian National Opera Academy in the summer 2023.
His broad musical interest has made him a versatile artist and he has embodied roles such as Oronte (Alcina) with Saluzzo Opera Academy in Italy (director: Dario Innella), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) staged in the drawing room of the historic Athenaeum Club in London, Fenton (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Eskilstuna Theatre, Sweden), Peter Fabricius in the Austrian operetta Zur gold’nen Liebe by Ralph Benatzky (Landestheater Linz, 2023), Minister in Ernst Toch’s children’s opera Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse (Landestheater Linz, 2024) and Hase in the world-premiere of Reinhard Febel’s opera Benjamin Button (Landestheater Linz, 2024).
With the Norwegian National Opera Academy he sang among others the Prolog and Peter Quint directed by Jacopo Spirei (The Turn of The Screw), Guglielmo (Elisabetta d’Inghilterra, Rossini, Jacopo Spirei), Johann Prinz (Die Alte Metode, Alfred Andersen-Winger), Belfiore (La finta giardiniera w/Norwegian Broadcasting orchestra/Adrian Kelly, Jacopo Spirei) and Aeneas directed by Stefan Herheim (Dido & Aeneas w/Barokksolistene).
As a concert singer, Martin has sung the tenor solist in Mendelssohns Elijah, Händel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Johannes-Passion, Graun’s Der Tod Jesu and performed Ludvig Irgens-Jensen’s Japanischer Frühling with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Furthermore, he was a guest solist in Asmik Grigorian’s Gala Concert at Landestheater Linz (June 2024) and has presented recitals dedicated to the art song repertoire, such as Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin and Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte.
In the 2024-2025 season, Martin will make his professional debut in his third Mozart role as Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) at Stadttheater Bad hall (September 2024), and portray a wide range of roles spanning from Baroque to Romantic and contemporary operas with the Bruckner orchester, the ensemble and the young artists at Landestheater Linz; Cesare (Il viaggio, Alois Bröder, world-premiere), Yang (Die heilige Ente, Hans Gál), Celidoro (I portentous affetti della madre natura, Scarlatti), Mosquito (The Cunning Little Vixen, Leoš Janáček), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Ismenor (Les mysteries d’Isis, Lachnith).
As well as being soloist, Martin finds a lot of inspiration in the creative part of his career and has his own Christmas and Summer concert tour around Norway every year since 2010 with his tenor brother Henrik Enger Holm and a broad selection of guest artists. Including operatic soprano Solveig Kringelborn, actor Toralv Maurstad, violinist Catharina Chen & the Norwegian Girls Choir.