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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. Nowadays She is a student in De Nieuwe Opera Academie. There she performed Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, in the role of the Countess.

            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) and Three Cultures Festival (Toledo), with the group Le Tendre Amour, wich performs jewish Early Music with original instruments.

            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, in which edition in 2005 she wan the prize to the best Spanish music performance.

            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.mma

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).