Alberto Miguélez Rouco

COUNTERTENOR AND CONDUCTOR

MUSIESPAÑA

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isorn in A Coruña in 1994, he began his piano studies at the age of eight, completing his Professional Degree with pianist Cristina López in 2012 with Extraordinary Honors. Simultaneously, he pursued vocal training with singing teacher and tenor Pablo Carballido del Camino.

In 2015, he completed his advanced vocal studies at the Musik Akademie Basel (Switzerland) with mezzo-soprano Rosa Domínguez, with whom he continues to work. He subsequently furthered his training with two master’s degrees, one in vocal performance and the other in vocal pedagogy. He also studied harpsichord and basso continuo at the same institution with Francesco Corti and Giorgio Paronuzzi.

In opera he has played the role of Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Köln, Valencia), Ascalax in Telemann’s Orpheus with René Jacobs (Ba-sel), Armindo in Händel’s Partenope with William Christie (Paris, Barcelona, Lucerne, Valencia…), Adelberto in Händel’s Ottone (Innsbruck Festwochen der Alte Musik), La Discordia in La Divisione del Mondo by Legrenzi (Strasbourg, Ver-sailles, Nancy, Köln), Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria by Monteverdi (Umana fragilità and Pisandro at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza), Dido and Aeneas by Purcell (Dido and Sorce-ress), The Magic Flute by Mozart (Dritte Knabe) and L’Orontea by Cesti (Corindo), working with directors of scene such as Jetske Mijnnsen, Anna Magdalena Fitzi, Pablo Maritano, Els Comediants de Joan Font or Deda Cristina Colonna.

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As an oratorio soloist he has sung the role of Amor Celeste in the Maddalena ai pie-di di Cristo (René Jacobs), Bach’s Johannes-Passion (René Jacobs), Handel’s Israel in Egypt (René Jacobs), Händel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Disinganno), Hasse’s Miserere, Vivaldi’s Gloria, the Weihnachtsoratorium and the Bach’s Magnificat, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Michael Haydn’s Requiem in C minor, Saint-Saëns’ Noël Oratorio, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.

He regularly attends masterclasses with renowned teachers such as Mariella Devia, Margreet Honig, Sara Mingardo, Philippe Jaroussky, Alessandro de Marchi, Christine Schäfer, Maria Cristina Kiehr, etc., and is conducted by conductors such as René Jacobs, William Christie, Georges Petrou, Christophe Rousset, Paul Agnew, Gabriel Garrido, and Josep Pons. As a soloist, he has worked with orchestras such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, the Bach Vereniging, Les Talens Lyriques, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Elyma, and the Trondheim Baroque Orchestra.

Winner of the X Jardin des Voix competition, he undertook a world tour (2021-2023) with Les Arts Florissants, conducted by William Christie, performing the role of Armindo in Händel’s opera Partenope. Since September 2020, he has been a member of the Musical Academy of the renowned French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. In the 2024-2025 season, he was a resident musician at the CNDM (Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical), performing in various projects, including the revival of Francisco Corselli’s opera El robo de las sabinas and Händel’s cantata Clori, Tirsi e Fileno.

With his ensemble Los Elementos, he has undertaken the recording of the complete stage works of the Spanish composer José de Nebra, recording Vendado es Amor, no es ciego in 2019, Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa in 2021, Venus y Adonis in 2023, and El diablo mudo and La divina Filotea in 2025. He also recorded his first solo album, Cantadas, in 2020. In 2025, he recorded José de Torres’s Requiem for the Versailles-based label Spectacles.

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The award-winning countertenor and conductor has performed at venues such as the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Theater an der Wien, and the Basel Opera. As a conductor, leading his ensemble Los Elementos, he has enjoyed a prolific career focused on the revival of Spanish Baroque music.