ALBERT MONTAÑEZ Performing Artist

Countertenor Albert Montañez is a multidisciplinary artist: producer, educator, and performing artist. As a countertenor soloist, he has performed internationally on five continents. In February 2020, Albert created and portrayed the title role in the world premiere of the Alan Turing Opera Project in Sweden and repriced the role during World Pride 2021 in Malmö /Sweden. Albert will portrait Alan again for the Copenhagen Opera Festival 2022 in Copenhagen. Recently invited to participate in the Nordic Song Festival in the summer of 2018 in Sweden. Made his Asian Debut with the Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra and the China Philharmonic in Beijing and Suzhou with ISING International Young Artist Program. He also produced and performed the U.S premiere of dramatic cantata Hojoki-An Account of my Hut by Jonathan Dove in San Francisco. Albert collaborated with American Composer Jake Heggie in the first showcase of his new opera "Great Scott" as Roane Heckle for the Dallas Opera. Also, he has performed at the Wigmore Hall in London with the World Premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek's Three Biographies for Countertenor and Cello and with the London Contemporary Opera as part of the Male Ensemble in the Opera, "The Schmürz" at the Barbican Centre. Mr. Montanez in previous engagements performed as Oberon in Britten's Midsummer Night's dream with Halifax Summer Opera in Canada, Telemaco in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno D'Ulisse with Opera Studio Nederlands and Witch II in Dido and Aeneas in Switzerland with L’Avance- Scene Opera. Albert has been invited by L'Alliance Française to participate in La Fête de la Musique in Lesotho and he also has performed in South Africa with renowned pianist Ronel Henning. He was the winner of the X Festival of Opera and Zarzuela in the Park with the Symphony Orchestra of Colombia and Guest Artist with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in Carmina Burana. In addition, he successfully produced, designed, and performed Gluck’s Orfeo in Bogotá. Alumn of the Young Artists Program of Teatro Colón in Bogota, Mr. Montanez was accepted at the age of 22 and was the first prize winner of the “Un Pais que Canta” scholarship from the Colombian Ministry of Culture. He received his bachelor's from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; M.M in Literature and Performance from Western University. Also, he studied an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England with a full scholarship and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music obtaining a Post Graduate Diploma.