Carmen Botella Galbis

Soprano

Carmen Botella specializes in performing Renaissance and Baroque music. She completed her singing studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna after graduating with distinction at the Valencia Conservatoire. She completed a Master’s degree in Historical singing at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona). She has taken courses and masterclasses in early music performance with many prestigious musicians.

She works regularly with many early music ensembles in Spain and abroad, with numerous concerts and CD recordings. She has participated in a large number of early and religious music festivals in Spain and in many European countries, including Great Britain, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, France and Switzerland. She has recorded for the Spanish National Radio (RNE), Austrian radio-television (ORF) and Italian radio-television (RAI).

She has a degree in Hispanic studies from the University of Valencia.

Silvia Rodríguez Ariza

Renaissance transverse flute

Silvia Rodríguez studied flute and recorder at the Royal Conservatoire in Madrid. She furthered her studies in baroque and renaissance flute at Toulouse Conservatoire. She has recorded for the Spanish Television (RTVE) and has performed with several ancient music ensembles. She has made recordings for Arsis label (El manuscrito de Enrique VIII), and with Piacere di Flauti and Aldephonsus Nobilis. She is a member of the renaissance flute consort Piacere dei Traversi. Currently she lives in Málaga, Spain, where she has founded the Orquesta Barroca de Málaga and teaches recorder at the Gonzalo Martín Tenllado Conservatoire.

Laura Palomar Salvador

Renaissance transverse flute

Laura Palomar completed a Bachelor and a Masters in the flute at the Valencia Conservatoire and the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, respectively. She obtained a Bachelor in Traverso at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Her main teachers include Renate Greiss-Armin and Kersten McCall on modern flute, and Kate Clark and Marc Hantaï on historical flutes. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain and the period instrument youth orchestras Jeune Orchestre Atlantique and NJO- Orchestra of the 19th Century.

She is a principal member of Academia de las Luces, an ensemble dedicated to the Classical and Romantic repertoire, and Piacere dei traversi, a Renaissance consort of traverso flutes and soprano. She has performed as a soloist at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and in traverso recitals in Valencia. She has been a guest artist with The Northern Consort (Netherlands), Orquestra Montsalvat (Barcelona) and Valencia Original Art.

She teaches flute at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Córdoba (Spain).

Marisa Esparza Regal

Flauta travesera renacentista

After obtaining a Bachelor in the flute at the Joaquín Rodrigo Conservatoire in Valencia, she specialized in the traverso with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. She has taught baroque music performance courses in Minas Gerais (Brazil) Peñíscola and at the Universities of Valencia and Alicante. As artistic director and flautist of the Estil Concertant ensemble, she has performed concerts and made recordings of Spanish music from the 18th century in particular. As a soloist she has recorded: Traverso y arpa barroca – Europa Mediterránea, Triosonatas para dos traversos y bajo continuo de J. Pla and Tríos y divertimentos de J. Haydn. She is a member of the Renaissance consort Piacere dei Traversi. Currently she teaches traverso at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Castellón (Spain).