Martha Mavroidi is a singer, lutist and composer from Greece. She has been singing and playing folk lutes from her childhood, performing music from Greece and the Balkans. Later she developed an interest in contemporary music, blending elements of folk music with contemporary harmony and improvisation. With her Quartet she has performed in various venues in Europe and the USA. She is a founding member of the sextet “Smari” and the vocal ensembles “Hilanthi” and “Yasemi”. She conducts the Greek Folk Choir “Rodia” and the “Polyphonic Workshop of Rodia”, a workshop in the form of a vocal orchestra.

She has been commissioned to compose musical works for the Greek National Opera (“Domna’s Song” for the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, “Katalogi” 2022, “Lazarakia” 2023 for the National Opera Children’s Choir, “Synaxari” 2024, “Madre Salonico” 2025) and the Greek National Theater (“Blood Wedding” by F.G.Lorca 2022). She has released six albums: The Garden of Rila (2009), Portaki (2012), Agiorgitiko (2014), Thread and Needle (2017), Magiatiko (2019), Ta Pehnidia (2024).

She has composed music for prize-winning short and feature films. She has collaborated with dance companies composing music for productions that have been staged in venues such as Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Cultural Foundation, Seoul International Dance Festival and Asia Culture Center in South Korea, Theatre de Nimes, LOFFT Leipsig, Tanzhaus Dusseldorf, Calcutta Goethe Institute among others.

She has published a book with compositions for vocal ensemble “Thread and Needle” (2019). Since 2013 Martha is the artistic director of Tinos World Music Festival.

She graduated from the Music High School of Pallini, and she has studied Musicology in Athens (University of Athens), Ethnomusicology in London (SOAS) and Los Angeles (UCLA), and Contemporary Music in Amsterdam (Conservatorium Van Amsterdam) with scholarships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Onassis Foundation.