Martín Llade

Martín Llade was born in San Sebastián in 1976. He holds a degree in Journalism and Advertising from the University of the Basque Country. In 2007, he joined Radio Clásica at RTVE, where since 2014 he has hosted the program Sinfonía de la mañana, for which he received the Ondas Award for Best Radio Program and Presenter in 2016. He also collaborates on RNE’s El ojo crítico and hosts En clave de 5 on Radio 5.

With Radio Clásica, he released in 2016 an anthology, in book-and-disc format, of the stories from his program: Sinfonías de la mañana. Its success led to a second volume the following year. He is also the author of the novel Lo que nunca sabré de Teresa (2021), about the cult actress Teresa Ann Savoy, and El horizonte quimérico, relatos delirantes de la historia de la música (2022). This was followed, in 2023, by the children’s book La música interrumpida de María de Pablos, illustrated by Ángela Salinero. In 2024, he published the novel El misterio Razumovski with Ediciones B, featuring Beethoven as a detective at the Congress of Vienna.

As a librettist, he has written the texts for the cantata Juan Sebastián Elcano (2018), composed by Gabriel Loidi and broadcast by RTVE, with Llade himself as narrator, as well as the libretto for the chamber opera Lazarillo de Tormes (2023), composed by David del Puerto.