Patricia Caicedo
Susan's Introduction
An amazing person who is doing this important work. Patricia is a beautiful soprano and musicologist who is the founding director of the Barcelona Festival of Song. She is also president of Mundoarts and on the executive board of the International Music Council. For most of my life, only the music of dead, white, European men has been promoted and studied in universities. It is only in the past few decades that music from other cultures and genders have had any attention. There is a vast amount of work to do to get this music out into the world. I love her singing and I am learning about and falling in love with the music she is promoting. I want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for doing this crucial and uplifting work. Please get involved in any way that speaks to you!
Decolonizing the curriculum of classical singers by promoting Latin American and Iberian music.
Recognized as the voice of the Iberian and Latin American art song and often described as its ambassador, the soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo is one of the leading interpreters and researchers of this repertoire.
She is an avid performer of these works, having performed all over the world in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song, which focuses on the performance and study of Latin American and Iberian art song.
Patricia is a true artist-scholar who combines research and performance, enriching each other. She has recorded ten CDs dedicated to the art song repertoire in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Indigenous languages. Most of her recordings include works recorded for the first time or works composed for her to premiere. Two of her CDs are exclusively dedicated to the music of women composers.
In 2020 she returned to composition, which she did when she was a teenager, and sung folk music. Her compositions are in a crossover Latin American and Spanish style, combining elements of the region's various folk and popular musics. With this new repertoire, Patricia integrates her life's many musical influences, navigating between the worlds of art and folk song.
