Lupe Larzabal, mezzo-soprano

Lupe Larzabal, born in Argentina, studied singing and bass at the EPM Folk Music School in Buenos Aires, after studying mathematics and physics at the Mariano Acosta School of Mathematics and Physics in Buenos Aires. She received her vocal training from the opera singers Marta Blanco (Argentina), tenor Alastair Thompson (The King's Singers) and baritone Aris Argiris (Germany). From 2000 to 2001 she completed a master's degree in music with a focus on singing in her home country.

She made her opera debut in 2001 and impressed in roles such as the "Third Lady" in "The Magic Flute", "La Marchant" in "Les mamelles de Tirésias", Erda in "Das Rheingold", Farnace in "Mitridate, re di Ponto", Pisana in "I due Foscari", Marchese in "La fille du régiment", Carmen in "Carmen", Gertrud in "Roméo et Juliette" and the "Old Lady" in "Candide". In 2007 she joined the Bonn Opera Choir and made her solo debut in "Sancta Susanna" in 2012 and in "Dionysos" at the Heidelberg Theater in 2013. Since 1995 she has appeared in numerous concerts as a soloist in both oratorios and secular pieces.

In 2003 she moved to Germany, where she continued her vocal training with Alastair Thompson in Cologne.

In 2015, she founded the CantArte association with the aim of organizing international cultural projects. From the same year until 2021, she directed the choir "Voces de las Américas". She also conducted other choirs, such as the women's choir "Monday Monday" in Bonn and the vocal ensemble "Claroscuro", with which she still gives concerts of Latin American baroque music with her own orchestral arrangements.

She currently directs the German-Hispanic-American Choir in Bonn and has performed works with them such as the “Stabat Mater” by José Luis Larzabal in Vienna, Austria, and the “Misa de Paz” by the same composer in Bonn.

Since 2019, she has been organizing the "International Choral Festival LiberArte" together with the LiberArte Bonn association and the conductor Pablo Quintero. The first edition of the festival took place in Germany in 2019 and was carried out in collaboration with the composer Martín Palmeri. This edition was followed by the world premiere of Palmeri's "Tango Choral Fantasy" on the occasion of Beethoven's 250th birthday. The next edition of the festival will take place in 2025 in Bonn and Buenos Aires with the works "Schicksalslied" by Brahms and "La Eneida" by José Luis Larzabal.

Lupe Larzabal has been working as a singing teacher since 2010 and has been running her own music studio in Bonn since 2014.