Born in Nyiregyhaza (Hungary), Márta Gődény begins to study the piano with Julia Rábai at the age of eight, and aged only ten, she is received at the famous Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. She works there with Ferenc Rados, István Lantos, András Kemenes and György Kurtág. In 1996, she obtains brilliantly her concertist diploma and is admitted a short time after in the “perfectionnement” cycle in Paris Conservatoire, entering the class of Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the accompaniment class of Jean Koerner.

Marta Godeny won numerous awards in international competitions: Leo Weiner in 1987, Yamaha Prize in 1993, Viotti in Vercelli in 1993, and Jean Françaix in 1999. She was laureate of the Villecroze Foundation, and the Maurice Ravel Academy.

She’s playing intensively as a soloist and chamber musician. Her repertoire covers all periods, with a special predilection for chamber music and contemporary music. She has recorded for several radio and television programs in France, Hungary and Russia. She played at the Périgord Noir festival, Jacobins in Toulouse,
«Festival du Jeune Soliste» in Antibes, and Opera in Bordeaux. In Paris she played in halls such as: Cité de la Musique, Orsay Museum, Louvre Museum, Théâtre de la Ville, and participated abroad in numerous international festivals. Beside her carrier as a pianist, Márta Gődény is more and more performing as a singer (mezzosopran) in recital or with orchestra, in a repertoire compassing a large scale of styles, from baroque to contemporary music.

Since year 2000, she is supported by the Groupe Banque Populaire Foundation.