Dr. Marina Bengoa Roldan is an Adjunct Professor of Piano at Southern Arkansas University, teaching and accompanying. In 2022 she finished her Doctoral studies in Piano Performance at the University of Oregon (USA) under the guidance of Dr. Alexandre Dossin with a full scholarship and assistantship. Marina received the outstanding award in Piano pedagogy. In 2021, she completed a Master's in Piano Pedagogy studying with Dr. Grace Ho, creating the website spanishpianomusic.org, a web that provides culturally-informed resources on Spanish music.

Dr. Bengoa received her Master of Music in Piano Performance at Georgia State University (Atlanta, USA), studying with Dr. Sergio Gallo. She was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at GSU. Marina received her Bachelor's degree in Spain, studying with Leonel Morales. 

Apart from her activity as a pianist, she regularly presents at national and international conferences. She gave presentations on Spanish music for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (2023, 2021), Arkansas State Music Teachers Association (2023), the Graduate Conference at the University of Calgary, Canada (2021), Musicking Conference at the University of Oregon (2021), and Catedra Bogota Musical International of Colombia (2022).

Marina has won numerous prizes in international and national piano competitions. In 2022, she received grants from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation and DSAC of the University of Oregon.

She made her orchestral debut in 2013, playing Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in several concert halls in Valencia (Spain). In 2016 received a Dean's award from Georgia State University and made her Carnegie Hall debut (New York), awarded by the American Protegé Competition. As a winner of the Brumby Concerto Competition, she performed Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Georgia State University Symphony Orchestra under the guidance of Michael Palmer.

During the summers of 2016 and 2017, Marina received The Elżbieta and Krzysztof Krawczyński Fund's scholarship from the Chopin Society of Atlanta, participating in the Paris International Summer Sessions and International Piano Course in Valldemossa (Spain) at the Catedra Chopin.

Currently, she is working on a project of Spanish piano music and Flamenco with Ania La Candela, a flamenco dancer based in Atlanta.