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The Cuban tenor, Ariel Hernández-Roque, started studying music at an early age. He has a degree in Music by from the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana (1990-1994). After his training as a percussionist and singer, he has acted since 1998 as a tenor soloist at the Schola Cantorum CORALINA, participating in numerous national and international tours, as well as in various recordings. He has received several postgraduate courses: "Canto" with Professor Ivette González (Argentina), "El Barroco en España", with Professor Josep Cabré, " Técnica e interpretación de los espirituales negros ", with the North American professor Kenneth Nafzinger.
Since 2004 Ariel Hernández-Roque lives in Spain, where he began to work with Professor Dña. Almudena Ortega, and performs recitals, as a light lyrical tenor, with his usual pianist Josu Okiñena. Has been member of the Festival-Ensemble Stuttgart (Director: Helmuth Rilling), and of the Europa Chor Akademie (Director: Joshard Daus). He was part of the Nova Lux Ensemble of La Coral de Cámara de Pamplona and has performed with the most outstanding early music groups in Spain such as Capilla Peñaflorida, Musica Ficta, La Hispanoflamenca and Alfonso X El Sabio and recently with La Capilla Real de Madrid (Director: Óscar Gershensohn), a group with which he participated in the ambitious project of performing the integral cantatas and the great sacred works of J.S. Bach.
Ariel Hernández-Roque has also worked under the direction of Federico Maria Sardelli, Kent Nagano, Andreas Spering, Paul Goodwin and Ton Koopman who recently invited him to sing with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at the "Ton Koopman 70 jaar" concerts in the Netherlands and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in the "Baroque Masters" cycle in Liverpool, in Lyon (W.A. Mozart's Requiem) and in La Coruña (J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245)). He currently lives in Madrid, Spain, and since 2009 he is a member of the Coro Nacional de España. |
