Bio
Born in Ourense, Belén Vaquero began her musical studies playing oboe and piano. Her interest in choral music and love for Baroque repertoire led her to study Historically Informed Singing at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. There, she graduated with Honors in 2019 under Francesc Garrigosa’s guidance. She studied for a Master’s Degree in Musicology at Universidad de La Rioja. Currently, she continues her vocal training at Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid with Juan Lomba and Duncan Gifford.
Awarded with the Sello Festclásica 2025 along with Pérgamo Ensemble. In 2023 she was awarded by Asociación de Amigos de la Ópera de Madrid and offered a concert in Ciclo de Jóvenes Cantantes. Winner of the prize “PromesaSMADE 2022” in Semana de Música Antigua de Estella-Lizarra together with the harpsichord player Ramón Pérez-Sindín Blanco, with whom she created the Baroque ensemble L’Affetto Umano. She has been awarded a scholarship by Fondazione Cini to attend three seminars, receiving lessons from Vivica Genaux, Sophie Daneman and Lisandro Abadie; she also won a scholarship from Fundación Victoria de los Ángeles in 2017. She has received lessons from Ermonela Jaho, Katia Ricciarelli, Carlos Mena, Carlos Aragón, Roberto Balconi, and Cristina Miatello among others.
She has performed in renowned festivals and venues in Spain and Europe such as Auditorio Nacional de Música, Temporada Lírica de A Coruña, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Laus Polyphoniae, Wratislawia Cantans, La Cité Bleue Genève, Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi, Festival Jordi Savall, Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, Festival Internacional de Música de Santander, Festival Camino de Santiago, Músicas Históricas de León, Festival MAS, Settimane Musicali Ascona, Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze or Teatro del Museo del Prado.
She usually collaborates with ensembles such as Al Ayre Español, Pérgamo Ensemble, Concerto 1700, Delirivm Musica, Ensemble VN and Mala Punica, among others. As a soloist, she participated in the modern days premiere of several Neapolitan cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti together with The Ministers of Pastime, an ensemble selected in EEEmerging 2022. She performed as a soloist in the production of th 18th century oratory “El Regreso” by Carles Baguer, under Edmon Colomer’s baton in 2019. She sang in New Orleans with the Louisiana Philarmonic Orchestra under the baton of Pedro Memelsdorff, supported by Acción Cultural Española and the Williams Research Center.
Within the operatic repertoire, she has participated in the ICCMU’s recovery project of Los celos hacen estrellas, a zarzuela by Juan Hidalgo. She has performed Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in the Bauer Palace and Facco’s Las Amazonas de España in Auditorio Nacional de Música with Concerto 1700.
Among Oratory repertoire, she has performed Brahm’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang or Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle which debuted with the choir of Radio Televisión Española conducted by Marc Korovitch. Her soloist repertoire also includes works such as Bach’s Matthäus-passion, Markus-pasion, Händel’s Messiah, Rossini’s La Cambiale di matrimonio and Stabat Mater, and Alessandro Scarlatti’s Il martirio di Santa Teodosia.