Andrés Montilla-Acurero
Venezuelan tenor Andrés Montilla-Acurero works regularly with conductors and musicians such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alessandro Quarta, Ketil Haugsand, Francesco Cera, Patrizia Bovi, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Claudio Astronio, Georg Dücker, Walter Testolin, Michele Pasotti, Michele Vannelli and Stephen Smith, as well as with ensembles including Concerto Italiano, Concerto Romano, the Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Arte Musica, Micrologus, Concerto Ibérico, Il canto di Orfeo, la fonte musica, the Corund Ensemble, De Labyrintho and Rossoporpora.
His repertoire comprises alto roles of the Italian 1600s, including Monteverdi, Cavalli, Cesti and Stradella, the French haute-contre roles of the 17th and 18th centuries, including works by Lully, Charpentier and Rameau, and 18th-century tenor roles by Handel, Vivaldi and Jommelli, as well as the Bach Evangelists.
He recently appeared in the title role in Lully’s Persée at the Flanders Festival in Antwerp, the Aalborg Opera Festival and the Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival, the title role in Rameau’s Zoroastre conducted by Claudio Astronio at the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini, the title role in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista at the Teatro Argentina in Rome conducted by Alessandro Quarta, as Arnalta (L’incoronazione di Poppea) in Bologna conducted by Michele Vannelli and in L’Orfeo conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini in Barcelona, Adelaide and Beijing. Forthcoming engagements include Eurimaco (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) in Rome and Rieti conducted by Alessandro Quarta.
Andrés Montilla-Acurero has also performed at venues and festivals such as the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw, the Halle Handel Festival, the Stuttgart Bach Academy, the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Perth Concert Hall, the Adelaide Festival, the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, the Hong Kong Concert Hall, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Styriarte Festival in Graz, the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, the Festival Barocco in Rome, the Festival des Arts de Monte-Carlo and the Festival Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México.
Andrés Montilla-Acurero has a PhD in political philosophy from the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome.