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Estefania was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). She started very early in the music world, singing in Saint Marcial Children’s Choir, conducted by Maite de Simón. With this choir she participated in several operas in the Opera Festival in Las Palmas.
Later on, she entered in Las Palmas Conservatory, as a student of Mario Guerra. She also took singing lessons with Nancy Argenta, Ian Patrigde, Mya Besselink, Gerd Türk and Meribeth Bunch, performing lessons with the co-repetitors Miguel Zanetti, Alejandro Zabala, Mark Hastings and Dido Keuning, phonetic lessons with Salvador Parron and Alan Branch, and theater thecnique and communication with Stephen Langrigde. She won the Diploma Special Prize, and also the Bachelor’s Special Prize, after finishing her degree with the highest mark. She also has a History Bachelor ‘s degree for Las Palmas University.
She obtained the Bachelor’s Degree in the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag with the teachers Barbara Pearson and Sasja Hunnego, with scholarships from the Spanish and Canarian goverments, obtaining excellent marks. She was selected last year to participate in the Grachten Festival Concours. Then she started her studies at De Nieuwe Opera Academie. There she performed the roles of Countess (Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart); Veronique (Le Docteur Miracle, Bizet); Blanche (Dialogues du Carmelites, Poulenc), and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni, Mozart). She obtained the highest marks and a distinction for her profesionality and artistic integrity.
She was a member of the Schola Cantorum of Las Palmas University, conducted by Emilio Tabraue. With this group she participated as a soloist in several international festivals, like in Coimbra (Portugal) and Valencia (Spain). She collaborated as a principal soloist in the CD Celebrando a Carlos Patiño, and she was a member of the Vocal Ensemble Carlos Patiño. With this ensemble she recorded music by composers from Las Palmas Cathedral from the 16th and 17th centuries. Also in the field of the Early Music, she collaborated with the ensemble Capilla Atlantigua, and she created the Caldara Ensemble, group that performed music from the 18th century with original instruments. The Caldara Ensemble participated in several Early Music Festivals, like Aracena (Huelva) and the Eloy Zapico Festival (Asturias). She also participated in other festivals, like Mayo Musical (Huesca), Three Cultures Festival (Toledo) ; Öt Templom Fesztival (Györ, Hungary) and Festival du Musiques Juives (Geneve); with the group Le Tendre Amour, wich performs jewish Early Music with original instruments. With this group she also participated in the Varazdin Baroque Evening (Croatia), obtaining the Jurica Murai to the best interpretation at the festival. In The Netherlands, she colaborated with the ensemble Las Esferas, performing the program La rosa que reyna, that includes Spanish Early Music, in Den Haag and Voorschoten. In April 2008 she sang Couperin, Bassani and Durón with the ensemble Musica Poetica in Den Haag.
As a solist, she has a long list of recitals all over Spain. She performed in the Première concert of the Organ in the Alfredo Kraus Concert Hall (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), with the organist Wolfgang Seinfen. In the same concert hall she performed a baroque program with Mar Tejadas (organ) and David La Cruz (baroque trumpet). She also sang the Mass in C minor, by Mozart, in Segovia, conducted by Francisco Lara; Gloria, by Vivaldi, in La Gomera and Tenerife, conducted by Roberto Túbaro; and Beatus Vir and Dixit Domine, also by Vivaldi, in Las Palmas, conducted by Francisco Brito. She also sang in the Torroella de Mongrí International Festival (Girona) Die Shuldigkeit des Erste Gebots, by Mozart, conducted by Marek Stryncl.
She was finalist in the Acisclo Fernández Carriedo Singing Concours 2002 (Spain), in which edition in 2005 she wan the prize to the best Spanish music performance. She was finalist in the IVC in Den Bosch (The Netherlands) in 2008. In 2010 she wins the second prize at the María Orán Competition in Tenerife (Spain).
About opera performances, she sang regularly as a soloist in the Opera Festival in Las Palmas. Before, she performed the role of M. Silberklang in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor, and also the Requiem in a concert in the Perez Galdós’Opera House. In the Opera Festival she performed in Nabucco, (Verdi, 2001, as Anna); La Favorite, (Donizzetti , 2002, as Inés), Die Zauberflöte (Mozart, 2002, as Papagena); Norma (Bellini, as Clotilde, 2003) and Fausto (Gounod, 2003, Siebel). She also sang the role of María in the zarzuela Estudiantes y alguaciles, by Bretón, in the Festival de Zarzuela 2002. She performed in a concert at the Teatro del Liceo (Barcelona) with opera arias by Albéniz. In Autumn 2009 she participates in a tour around Japan performing again Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. She performs at the concert Alrededor de Simon Boccanegra at the Príncipe Felipe Auditorium (Oviedo, Spain) and also the role of Lolika in The Magic Opal, by Albéniz, in its second Spanish première at the National Auditorium in Madrid.
In The Netherlands, she performed the Bachiana N. 5 by Villalobos with De Residentie Orkest in the Anton Philips Zaal in Den Haag, conducted by Clark Rundell, and she sang the same piece with The Cello Ensemble from Brabants Orkest in Vught. It is also important her regular collaboration with the Ad Hoc Ensemble and The Baroque Dutch Society. She performed reciently two Spanish music recital with the mezzo soprano Carina Vinke and the pianist Rixt van der Kooij (Den Haag and Drachten), and Ein Deustches Requiem with Voorburgs Ensemble, conducted by Maryke van Klaveren (Den Haag). She also sang a recital in the Opera aan Zee Festival, with an excelent review, and recently she performed a Spanish zarzuela program in the same Festival. She sang the role of Fidelia (Edgar,Puccini) in Groningen, Drachten and Leeuwarden with the Amadeus Koor and Nieuw Philamonisch Orkest, conducted by Luuk Tuinder; and the Mahler N.4 Symphony and Poémes pour mi by Messiaen with Noord Nederlands Orkest in Groningen and Leeuwarden in May 2008. She sings in at concert at the Grachten Festival (Muziekgebouw aan´t Ij, Amsterdam), and in 2009 she is one of the performers of the world première of Mare Liberum, by Roel van Oosten (Anton Philip Zaal, Den Haag).
Her next engagements include a new tourneé around Japan singing Mimí in La Bohème; the role of Bellangère in Ariadne et Barbe Bleu, by Dukas (Concertgebouw, Amsterdam); two new concerts in Delf and Hamburg with the piece Mare Liberum; Parsifal at the Liceo in Barcelona...
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