| CECILIA ARELLANO – voice
(guest artist - ENCANTARIA) A singer who transits diverse expressions of vocal music, Arellano was born in Rosario, Argentina, and raised in São Paulo, where she studied social sciences at The University of São Paulo and singing at the Arts Institute of São Paulo State University (Unesp). She also studied at the Colón Theatre Institute, in Buenos Aires. She has a degree in solo singing from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, in the Netherlands, and attended several courses regarding early music in Germany, Spain and France. In Switzerland she studied choir directing at the Geneva Conservatory. During the 14 years she remained in Europe, Arellano created and acted in many musical shows: Choro para Carmen (show and CD), Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) (Switzerland/ Austria), Envidia (Envy) (a contemporary opera in a Switzerland-Argentina co-production from the Experimental Center of the Colón Theatre and Gare Du Nord). She took part as a singer in Orpheus, by Monteverdi (Lyon Opera, dir. Phillip Pickett), Gaudete (motets and songs from the 16th and 17th centuries) and The Groove of Bach in festivals in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, among others. In Argentina she performed at the Colón Theatre, in Buenos Aires, and at the Baroque Music Festival, in Córdoba. Arellano currently teaches vocal technique at University del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. |