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The Spanish tenor, Diego Blázquez, began his musical studies at the Escolanía del Monasterio de El Escorial. In 2008 he obtained a scholarship from the Academia de Música Antigua de Salamanca to study with Professors Richard Levitt and David Mason. Back in Madrid he studied at the Escuela Superior de Canto, with teachers Vicente Encabo and Carmen R. Aragón, where she obtains the AAESCM final year award.
Diego Blázquez currently works with various groups specialized in the field of early music such as: Axivil, Concerto 1700, La Grande Chapelle, Accademia del piacere, Los Afectos Diversos, La Hispanoflamenca, Capella Ibérica, La Fortuna, Nereydas, Musica Ficta, Axivil or Colegium Musicum Madrid. His forays into stage music focus on Baroque opera, performing leading roles in L'Orfeo by Monteverdi (Orfeo), Dido and Aeneas by Purcell (Aeneas), Acis and Galatea by George Frideric Handel (Acis) or The Fairy Queen by Purcell; although she has also participated in productions by composers closer in time such as Pomme d' Api by Offenbach, El delvio de Noé by Benjamin Britten or Pepita Jiménez by Albéniz. Among his latest projects is the recovery of part of the Manuscrito Sutro, under the direction of the harpist Manuel Vilas. He currently lives in Madrid, Spain. |
