Martina Brodbeck was born in Basel in 1976 and studied cello at the Basel Academy of Music with Thomas Demenga. After completing her studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag under Michael Müller, she obtained the Concert Diploma with distinction from the Academy of Music and Theatre in Biel/Berne under Conradin Brotbek.

Martina Brodbeck is principal cellist of the Basel Sinfonietta, a regular member of the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Ensemble Lémur with Ingrid Karlen, piano, and Matthias Würsch, percussion, and from 2020 of the Ensemble Contrechamps Genève. She takes an active interest in contemporary music and performs with various chamber music ensembles (including the Phoenix Basel ensemble, the ensemble ö!, soyuz21 contemporary music ensemble zurich, and the Collegium Novum Zürich) in Europe, China and the United States. Martina Brodbeck has been teaching at the Freien Musikschule Zürich since 2013. Since 2017, she has been working with percussionist Fritz Hauser, who invited her to the Lucerne Festival in 2018 for an improvised duo programme.