Biography
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez was born in Havana, Cuba where she started her music studies in cello and piano. Graduated in choral conducting at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory and singing at the Superior Institute of Art in Havana. She continues her postgraduate studies in Italy, which she took up under the direction of Vincenzo Manno in Milan. She has also taken courses in 17th-century Italian music interpretation with Roberto Gini at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica di Milano. Nowadays she is student at Manny Perez Vocal Studio in Miami, Florida.
Winner of the International Competition of barroque singing in Chimay, Belgium with the First Prize, Audience's Prize and Prize from Pintemps des Art de Nantes Festival. She has also won prizes in Concorso Internazionale di Canto Barocco F. Provenzale in Naples, as well as in the Concorso Internazionale di Musica Sacra in Rome.
During those years in Europe she worked with the most distinguished Italian ensembles and orchestras performing in important venues and halls such as Santa Cecilia concerts season in Rome, Orchestra dell'opera di Roma, Ochestra RAI di Turin, Teatre Graslin de Nantes, Societa del Quartetto in Milan, Auditorium G.Verdi in Milan, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Conzertgebouw of Amsterdam, Vienna, Auditorio Nacional of Madrid, as well as Festivals in Brugges, Cologne, Stuttgart, Melk, Dortmund, Graz, Vienna, Ambronay, Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Utrecht, Florence, etc.
In 2013 she began an important collaboration with Maestro Ton Koopman who has conducted her in Mozart Requiem and Exultate Jubilate with the Hague’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach B minor Mass at Leipzig BachFest and Tonhalle of Zurich, Beethoven’s IX Symphony with Arena di Verona Orchestra, Bach’s Christmas Oratory in european tournée with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Mozart’s c minor Mass with Lyon National Orchestra, Bach's Mathews Passion with Symphony Orchestra of La coruña, Spain and Bach's Cantatas with Orchestra Toscanini di Parma, Italy.
Some of her past engagements include Mozart's Don Giovanni as Elvira in Miami Summer Festival, Handel’s “Alessandro” as Rossane in Karlsruhe, Germany, roll of Megacle in Pergorlesi’s Olimpiade at Opera Rara Festival (Polish premiere) in Krakow, roll of Argene from Pergolesi's Olimpiade in Jesi, Italy, roll of Piacere in ‘Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno’ by Handel with La Risonanza. She has performed as well great Bach's masterpieces as Matheus Passion with Diego Fasolis in Lugano and B Minor Mass with Jordi Savall in Fontfroide and Graz Festivals recorded in DVD.
In 2012, Ms. Fernandez made her american debut with Handel’s solo Recital at the Library of Congress in Washington DC with italian ensemble La Risonanza. She had excellent reviews of press and audience. In 2015 she was invited to San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival singing with Maestro Michael Francis the great c minor Mass.
Mrs. Arias has recorded several CDs and DVDs. Among them Handel’s cantata “Tirsi, Clori e Fileno” which won the important Stanley Prize 2010 in London as the Best Handel’s recording of the year. In 2013 she took part as solist in Cecilia Bartoli's new CD “Stabat Mater” to EMI.
In 2014, two solos CD's, featuring Yetzabel Arias Fernandez were released by Naxos and Glossa labels: firstly Tonos Humanos of Manuscript Guerra (Spain XVII Century) and secondly Solo Cantatas by Neapolitan composer Niccolò Jommelli with Stile Galante Ensemble.
Most of her concerts were broadcasted live in Italy and all over Europe.
Some of her forthcoming engagements include Opera Teseo (Agilea) in Karlsruhe, Handel's "Apollo e Dafne" with Orchestra Barroca de Sevilla, Haydn's Heiligmesse with Liverpool Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vesprae Sollemnes de Confessores in Lisboa, 3mil Rios multimedia performance in Lisboa and Teatro Colon in Bogotá, Bach's Easter Oratory in Amsterdam, Haydn Nelson messe in France conducted by T. Koopman. In USA she will perform Mozart's Missa Solemnis in San Diego, Beethoven's IX Symphony and Poulenc's Gloria conducted by Michael Francis.
Winner of the International Competition of barroque singing in Chimay, Belgium with the First Prize, Audience's Prize and Prize from Pintemps des Art de Nantes Festival. She has also won prizes in Concorso Internazionale di Canto Barocco F. Provenzale in Naples, as well as in the Concorso Internazionale di Musica Sacra in Rome.
During those years in Europe she worked with the most distinguished Italian ensembles and orchestras performing in important venues and halls such as Santa Cecilia concerts season in Rome, Orchestra dell'opera di Roma, Ochestra RAI di Turin, Teatre Graslin de Nantes, Societa del Quartetto in Milan, Auditorium G.Verdi in Milan, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Conzertgebouw of Amsterdam, Vienna, Auditorio Nacional of Madrid, as well as Festivals in Brugges, Cologne, Stuttgart, Melk, Dortmund, Graz, Vienna, Ambronay, Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Utrecht, Florence, etc.
In 2013 she began an important collaboration with Maestro Ton Koopman who has conducted her in Mozart Requiem and Exultate Jubilate with the Hague’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach B minor Mass at Leipzig BachFest and Tonhalle of Zurich, Beethoven’s IX Symphony with Arena di Verona Orchestra, Bach’s Christmas Oratory in european tournée with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Mozart’s c minor Mass with Lyon National Orchestra, Bach's Mathews Passion with Symphony Orchestra of La coruña, Spain and Bach's Cantatas with Orchestra Toscanini di Parma, Italy.
Some of her past engagements include Mozart's Don Giovanni as Elvira in Miami Summer Festival, Handel’s “Alessandro” as Rossane in Karlsruhe, Germany, roll of Megacle in Pergorlesi’s Olimpiade at Opera Rara Festival (Polish premiere) in Krakow, roll of Argene from Pergolesi's Olimpiade in Jesi, Italy, roll of Piacere in ‘Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno’ by Handel with La Risonanza. She has performed as well great Bach's masterpieces as Matheus Passion with Diego Fasolis in Lugano and B Minor Mass with Jordi Savall in Fontfroide and Graz Festivals recorded in DVD.
In 2012, Ms. Fernandez made her american debut with Handel’s solo Recital at the Library of Congress in Washington DC with italian ensemble La Risonanza. She had excellent reviews of press and audience. In 2015 she was invited to San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival singing with Maestro Michael Francis the great c minor Mass.
Mrs. Arias has recorded several CDs and DVDs. Among them Handel’s cantata “Tirsi, Clori e Fileno” which won the important Stanley Prize 2010 in London as the Best Handel’s recording of the year. In 2013 she took part as solist in Cecilia Bartoli's new CD “Stabat Mater” to EMI.
In 2014, two solos CD's, featuring Yetzabel Arias Fernandez were released by Naxos and Glossa labels: firstly Tonos Humanos of Manuscript Guerra (Spain XVII Century) and secondly Solo Cantatas by Neapolitan composer Niccolò Jommelli with Stile Galante Ensemble.
Most of her concerts were broadcasted live in Italy and all over Europe.
Some of her forthcoming engagements include Opera Teseo (Agilea) in Karlsruhe, Handel's "Apollo e Dafne" with Orchestra Barroca de Sevilla, Haydn's Heiligmesse with Liverpool Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vesprae Sollemnes de Confessores in Lisboa, 3mil Rios multimedia performance in Lisboa and Teatro Colon in Bogotá, Bach's Easter Oratory in Amsterdam, Haydn Nelson messe in France conducted by T. Koopman. In USA she will perform Mozart's Missa Solemnis in San Diego, Beethoven's IX Symphony and Poulenc's Gloria conducted by Michael Francis.
