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Héctor GUERRERO, baritone:
He began his singing studies at the Conservatoire in Oviedo and completed his advanced studies at the RCSMM, obtaining the highest qualifications and Honorary Mention in the field of Lieder-Oratorio and Early Music. In the Madrid’s School of Singing his singing teachers were Manuel Cid and Julio Alexis Muñoz. He has also had coaching from Montserrat Caballé, David Mason, José Antonio Carril, Wolfram Reiger, Richard Leawitt, Evelyn Tubb, Belén Genicio, Aurelio Viribay, Félix Lavilla, Isabel Penagos, Josefina Arregui and Pedro Farrés. In 2000 he was awarded a scholarship for the “Music in Compostela” course. He was a member of the Spanish National Choir for three seasons.
He has sung as soloist in the 9th Simphony by Beethoven, Christmas Oratorio and several other Bach cantatas, as well as Handel’s Saul, Bach’s Missa Brevis BWV 233 and Mozart’s K.275, the Armed Man in Mozart’s Magic Flute, “The Servants’ Revolt” (an operatic entertainment staged by Gustavo Tambascio), Fauré’s “Requiem”, “Evenings with Donizetti” an “Don Carlo” by G.Verdi in the Teatro Real (Madrid Opera House), and has performed under the baton of Eduardo López Banzo, Luis Remartínez, Jesús López Cobos, Juan de Udaeta, Oleg Lev, Tomás Garrido, Dorel Murgu, Iouri Nashouskin, David Guindano, Lluis Vilà, Alvaro Marías and Maximino Zumalave in the most important musical venues not only within Spain but also abroad, as far and wide as Brazil, Cuba, France, England, Italy, Gabón, Slovakia, Austria and France.
He has also collaborated as a soloist with groups such as the Capilla Real de Madrid, Juego Musical, Favola In Musica, Leteica Musica, Alfonso X el Sabio, Vaghi Concenti, Al Ayre Español, and Zarabanda. At the invitation of the Agora Choir and the “Juan de Borbón” Foundation, he was the teacher of vocal technique during the Choral Conducting courses in Segovia in 2003 and 2004.
He was finalist in the National Lyric Singing Competition, “Villa de Abarán”, in Murcia in the year 2000. In 2002, he won an award from Juventudes Musicales in Madrid and a grant from the “Friends of Opera” Association to further his musical studies. At present, he divides his time between performing concerts and teaching singing in the Royal Conservatoire and in Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid.
Héctor GUERRERO, piano:
Having begun his piano studies at 16, he completed, with outstanding qualifications, his final grade exams in Piano and Chamber Music at the Oviedo Conservatoire at the age of 23. His teachers included Elena González Fernández-Llamazares (under whose tutelage he obtained the end of grade special award) and Tsiala Kvernazde. He has received coaching from F. Jaime y Patín, Franco Medori (Santa Cecilia Conservatoire in Rome), Mihail Milman, Galina Eguiazarova, Guillermo González, Irina Zaristkaia (Royal College, London), Philip Fowke (Trinity College, London). As soloist, he has performed concertos by Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn…
As piano soloist, he has accompanied the National Choir of Spain on three occasions in the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid in performances of Brahms’s “Liebesliederwaltzer”, Respighi’s “Lauda per la natività del Signor” and Orff’s “Catulli Carmina”.
As a complement to his musical formation, he has attended organ lessons with Antonio Diaz Corveiras, Montserrat Torrent and David Hoyland (harpsichord), and has given several recitals on these instruments.
He has participated as teacher-accompanist in the Choral Conducting courses given in Castillo de la Mota organised by the Regional Council of Castilla y León and at the international string players course in Villa de Llanes. He was a member of the jury at the piano competition organised by the Royal Yacht Club in Vigo. He was also professor of Piano and Chamber Music in the León Conservatoire from 1998 to January 2000. |
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