Gonzalo Cuadra. Graduated with maximum distinction from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile in the careers of Bachelor of Arts Mention Music and Superior Interpretation in Music mention singing, he was trained first with the teachers Nora López and Clara Oyuela, perfecting himself in early music with Gabriel Garrido .
As a soloist he has participated in seasons of the Municipal Theaters of Santiago, SODRE of Montevideo, Colón of Buenos Aires and the Margräfliches Opernhaus of Bayreuth, among others. He has sung in operas and stage works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, De ’Cavalieri, Ponce de León, Torrejón y Velasco, Lully, De la Guerre, Donizetti, Tchaikovsky, De Falla and Stravinsky. In 2010 he was in charge of the leading role in the premiere of the rock-opera ICARO.
Stable soloist of the ensembles Estudio MusicAntigua (Universidad Católica de Chile), Syntagma Musicum (Universidad de Santiago) and Terra Australis, together with them and also independently, he has performed in venues and seasons in Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia , Venezuela, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, France, and in prestigious Early Music Festivals in South America. As a singer and composer he was a member of the Spanish-American baroque theater company "La Calderona", highlighting a tour of Spain in 2010 as official guests of the commemoration of the Jacobean Year. He was also a founding member of the company “Del Salón al Cabaret”, specialized in the staging and recovery of the popular Latin American musical repertoire of the 20th century.
In his work as régisseur he has staged works by Blow, Torrejón y Velasco, Bach, Pergolesi, Mozart, Rossini, Marc’Antoine Charpentier, Ravel, Verdi and Donizetti, all in official opera seasons in Santiago, Concepción and Temuco.
As a teacher, he has developed work for the Faculty of Theater and the Institute of Music of the Catholic University of Chile, the Antorchas Foundation (Argentina) and “Les Chemins du Baroque” (France). He currently develops pedagogical work at the Music Institute of the Alberto Hurtado University and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile. He has also given masterclasses for SODRE (Uruguay), the University of Cuyo and the Camping Musical de Bariloche (Argentina).
Although his solo repertoire is focused on the baroque, his research and dissemination activity has also focused on rescuing the chamber and opera vocal repertoire composed by Chileans between 1830 and 1950, working in conjunction with the Library's Music Archive. National and shown in different official concert seasons in Santiago.
For more than fifteen years he co-conducted with maestro Miguel Patrón Marchand programs dedicated to lyric for the radio of the University of Chile.
His discography and repertoire includes early music, contemporary electroacoustics, and Latin American popular music.
