Margarita Estrada, soprano

2011 Young Sonoran Talent

(Ciudad Obregon, Sonora). At age seven Miss Estrada began studying classical guitar and piano at fourteen with Martha Baena. Two years later she studied with Vianney Rivera. In 1997 she entered the Singing specialization course in Michoacan’s Rose Conservatory, in Morelia city, under the teachings of Guadalupe Gongora. She continued her studies in Sonora with Professors Jesus Li and Marybel Ferrales. She took vocal improvement lessons with maestro Enrique Patron de Rueda, Sharon Spinetti, Luis Ledesma, Danielle Orlando, Tito Capobianco, Adriana Grekova, Anush Balasanyan, Daniel Villegas, Todor Petrov, Martha Felix, Hector Acosta, Angel Rodriguez, Thusnelda Nieto, Graciela Araya, Rogelio Riojas-Nolasco, Rafael Felix and Gail Dubinbaum.

Miss Estrada was a soloist of the Unison Choir and performed La Traviata in Mazatlan, Culiacan (Sinaloa) and Hermosillo, Sonora; Madame Butterfly and Cavalleria Rusticana at the closing day of Mar Bermejo Festival in Guaymas; also as a soloist in concerts at the 2005, 2007 and 2009 Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Festival.

In 2005 she represented Mexico at the Mario del Monaco International Singing Contest, in Marsala, Italy; in 2008 she was awarded third place at Carlo Moreli National Singing Competition; in 2009 she won third place at the First Sinaloa Singing Competition and was the recipient of the 2010 Pepita Serrano scholarship. Miss. Estrada also got the 2007 Youth State Award in Artistic Performance, and in 2007 and 2009 she was the recipient of Sonora’s Culture Development Municipal Program.

She has played many concerts and opera recitals of Mexican and Cuban music in Oatlands, Virgina and Washington, United States, and in several Sonoran cities since 2004 to date. In 2010 she offered an opera concert organized by the Sinaloan Artist Society in Tijuana, Baja Califonia. She opened the concert season of Xalapa’s Symphonic Orquestra and closed the concert season of the Sinaloan Opera Workshop, singing G. Donizetti’s Roberto Deveroux Selections, playing the lead role of Elisabetta, Queen of England.

Miss Estrada was the director’s advisor in a Tribute to Mozart called Cafe Narrel. In 2008 she played the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. She took the role of Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, a children’s adaptation at the Angela Peralta Theater, during the Mazatlan Cultural Festival. In 2006 she presented a concert called Palabras de Mujer in that same town and was featured as a soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, and in Orff’s Carmina Burana, during the 2007 and 2008 Fiestas del Pitic.

Soprano Margarita Estrada has given many conferences on singing and vocal ensemble techniques. In June 2007 she formed El Trio band, alongside Ricardo Rodriguez and Ricardo Perez. That same year she participated as a soloist in the Gloria en el Portal concerts, in the Un viaje a traves de los musicales and El trio, grabacion de CD music projects, sponsored by the 2007 Sonora’s Municipal Culture Development Program (Cajeme). In 2008 she was one of the sopranos from the Bachelor of Arts in Music that played at the De Mozart a Broadway show, in Hermosillo, and was showcased in Misa Criolla.

She is currently participating in the vocal performance program for young singing talents, directed by Professors Enrique Patron de Rueda and Angel Rodriguez, in Mazatlan, Sinaloa.