Elena is passionate about working with groups of singers during their vocal development in adolescence and creating spaces through choral music where everyone feels welcomed and musically inspired to keep on singing into adulthood.
Youth Choirs (Equal voices, mixed and Cambiata)
Since September 2021, Elena occasionally works with the Opera North Youth Company Ensembles : ON Young Voices (upper voices) and ON Youth Chorus (mixed voices):
- Conductor (deputy) – Opera North Young Voices: Life Lessons at the National Centre for Early Music in York. Summer Project 2024: A project co-devised by ONYV singers and ON Drama Coach.
- Taking rehearsals as deputy since 2021, she has rehearsed ONYV and ONYC works such as: Brundibár- Hans Krasa, Dracula! – Carey Blyton, Trial by Jury- G&S, Le Roi Malgré (The King Despite himself) -Adaptation – Emmanuel Chabrier, A Ceremony of Carols – Benjamin Britten and other SSA/SAB/SATB choral repertoire.
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In 2016 Elena co-founded and artistically directed until 2020 the mixed youth cambiata choir Luzcoræ, from Voces Blancas del Nalón, Spain. Ages 12 to 21, the focus of this choir was the stable development of the teenage (male and female) singing voice through vocal-appropriate choral repertoire in a context of mixed voice choir distribution (SACambiata mostly) and the acquisition of skills to access higher education choral ensembles. Many of these singers currently sing in university-level choirs or equivalent across Spain.
- Festival Coral Verao 2017 – silver medal, European Festival for Young People, Neerpelt, Belgium 2018 – first prize, World Choral Day Celebration, 2019.
Elena led warm-ups and sang with Voces Blancas del Nalón choir – upper voices ensemble, ages 15 to 21- from 2016 to 2019.
- Guest Choirs series St Patrick’s Cathedral New York 2017, Guest Choir series Catedral Notre Dame Paris 2018, Malta International Choral Festival – Distinction 2017, Festival Choral de Verao – silver medal, Lisbon 2016.
In 2019, she prepared and conducted Voces Blancas del Nalón Choir – mixed voice youth ensemble- for the 2019 National Final of the Habaneras of Torrevieja Choral Competition, Spain.
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