Alvarado, Jonatan

Jonatan Alvarado

Jonatan Alvarado started studying guitar in his native Mercedes in the province of Buenos

Aires, and later followed composition and conducting studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He graduated in voice and lute from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, under Xenia Meijer and Fred Jacobs, respectively. He further specialized in medieval and renaissance repertoires with Dr. Rebecca Stewart.

Alvarado is director and co-founder of the Ensemble Seconda Prat!ca, dedicated to renaissance and early baroque Latin American music. He is also a member of Da Tempera Velha, Sollazo Ensemble and Concerto di Margheritta, and sings regularly with lutenist Ariel Abramovich. He often collaborates with prominent groups such as La Chimera, Club Medieval, Ensemble Phoenix, Constantinople and Armonía Concertada. He has appeared as a soloist in the most important European stages and festivals, from the Abbey of Royaumont, to the Bimhuis Amsterdam and the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Jonatan Alvarado's eclectic musical restlessness extends his artistic activity to completely disparate projects, always under the common denominator of working from historical sources and the use of historical instruments, as in the recovery of the unpublished songbooks of the Spanish Republican exile together with Samuel Diz, or the medieval musical archive of the Cathedral of Tui. His first solo CD, "Pajarillos Fugitivos" (Ayros 2018) was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards in the category of Best Early Music Vocal Album. His latest album ‘Voces de Bronce’ is dedicated to early 20th-century Argentine traditional music. Upcoming recordings include the debut album of Da Tempera Velha, which will revisit the famous Cancionero de Palacio, and an album with Ariel Abramovich focusing in the 16th century archive of Huehuetenango, Guatemala.