Workshops

One of Elena’s professional interests is introducing the world of choral music to adults and young people through workshops.

YOUNG VOICES WORKSHOPS

• Elena is part of the Choral/Vocal Delivery Artist team within the Learning and Engagement department at Opera North. She is also Workshop Leader for Opera North´s Award Winning  – KS2 Singing Project, where she works with primary school-age singers in schools in the North of England, and co-leads Continuous Professional Development training in young voices´s groups vocal leading for their school teachers.
  • Examples of current and past projects:
    • Wonderland Restored by Will Todd -2024 and 2025.
    • The Water’s Diviner’s Tale by Rachel Portman – 2022 and 2023.

• She has co-led workshops for Opera North Family Days and Opera North Summer Camp. Projects based on children’s adaptation of the operas The Cunning Little Vixen, 2022 and The Selfish Giant, 2021.

• Her work as workshop leader started in 2014 within the Choral Project Voces Blancas del Nalón in Spain, collaborating with primary schools in the Nalon´s Valley area. In 2017, she had the opportunity to work with children and young people at the Bocachica Centre for Young People in Bocachica, Dominican Republic.

ADULT VOICES CHORAL WORKSHOPS

• During 2022 and 2023 she collaborated with the Cervantes Institute of Leeds in delivering termly beginner adult choral singing workshops focused on Hispanic-language based repertoire.

• Elena has experience on leading one-off choral workshops for community choirs focused on a certain topic/musical theme or idea. She has delivered workshops in Leeds (UK), Oviedo (Spain), Gijón (Spain) and for Opera North’s Community Partnerships scheme.

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