Slovenian tenor Martin Sušnik was born in Australia and has lived in Slovenia since childhood. After completing vocal studies with Pija Brodnik at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, he successfully participated in competitions in Slovenia and abroad, winning several first prizes including 37th Competition for young Slovenian musicians (TEMSIG, 2008) and International Opera Singers Competition “Giovanni Martinelli & Aureliano Pertile” in Montagnana, Italy (2017). For his achievements during his studies he received the Prešeren Student Prize and a ceremonial certificate for outstanding academic achievements from the University of Ljubljana.
He is a regular performer in Slovenia and abroad with various choirs, chamber ensembles and orchestras including the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, the Slovenian Police Orchestra, the Slovenian Army Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic and others. Although his career has been primarily focused towards opera, he has also sung in oratorios, masses and lieder.
Martin has made guest appearances on concert stages across Europe, as well as at the Royal Opera at Versailles, the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Croatian National Theater Zagreb and the Slovenian National Theater Ljubljana.
As an ensemble member of the Slovenian National Theater Maribor he has performed numerous roles including Romualdo (Črne maske/The Black Masks), Camille de Rosillon (The Merry Widow), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Count Monterone (Rigoletto), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Lenski (Eugene Onegin), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Lindoro (L’italiana in Algeri), Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), le Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des carmélites), Nick (La fanciulla del West), Pong (Turandot), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Loge (Das Rheingold), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Rodolfo (La bohème) and the title role in Gounod’s Faust.
His recent engagements include Laërte (Hamlet) and Alfredo Germont (La Traviata) at Slovenian National Theater Maribor, Werther and Prunier (La rondine) at Croatian National Theater Zagreb, Gabriel von Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus) at Slovenian National Theater Ljubljana.