"High Artistic Scholarship Award in Singing Specialisation" granted by the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia for two consecutive years, Lorena Ferreiro is a Spanish coloratura singer that, as per to the critics, "not only stands out because of her tender timbre but also thanks to her acting skills".
Graduated in Classical Singing at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Navarra, Lorena studied with Paloma Pérez-Iñigo and obtained top marks throughout her degree. From then to this day, she has been working on further enhancing her technique with Inmaculada Martínez. She was awarded a Professional Degree, majoring in Piano at the Artebi Music Conservatory with Danuta Filiochovska. She also achieved the BA Musical Education Teaching and specialized in Theatre and Scenic Arts under the Theatre and Scenic Arts Specialist´s University Master´s Degree at the Basque Country's University. It is there where she attended lectures by John Strasberg (Actor’s Studio), Jose Luis Raymond (Royal High School of Dramatic Arts of Madrid) , Ricardo Iniesta (Centro de Arte Producciones Atalaya), Pere Planella (Institut del Teatre of Barcelona), just to mention some names.
She was also granted a scholarship at the Menéndez Pelayo International University of Santander, consisting in attending a Masterclass with Montserrat Caballé. Throughout the years, She has also received Masterclasses from Íride Martínez, Carlos Álvarez, Carlos Chausson, Jaume Aragall, Maria Bayo, Isabel Monar, Ana Luisa Chova,... and with the repetiteurs Alejandro Zabala, Manuel Burgueras, Rubén Fernández Aguirre, Jorge Robaina, Fabrice Boulanger, Aurelio Viribay, Aki Moriya, Pierre Clement, Husan Park,...
Lorena Ferreiro has taken part in several operas and musicals’ productions, such as in L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti) as Adina, in The Magic Flute (Mozart) as the Queen of the Night and Papagena, in Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) as Madame Silberklang, in La Sonnambula (Bellini) as Lisa, in Dido and Eneas (Purcell) as Belinda, in Carmen (Bizet) as Frasquita, in Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) as Susanna ,in L’enfant et les Sortilèges (Ravel) as Le Feu, La Princesse and Le Rossignol, as well as in zarzuelas, such as El Caserio (Guridi) as Ana Mari, in Casado y Soltero (Gaztambide) as Inés and in La Rosa del Azafrán (Guerrero) as Catalina.
She has recently been directed by William G. Costabile Cisco and Alejandro Aranda on stage and musically by conductors like Juan Pablo Valencia, Yannis Hadjiloizou (Athens Philarmonic) and Rinaldo Zhok.
As far as symphonic and oratory is concerned, it must be underlined Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate conducted by Vicent Egea, Faure's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria conducted by M. Aurrekoetxea and Rutter's Magnificat and Requiem, both conducted by Ius Pérez.
She also represented the principal role of the play "El Reloj" (Dario Fó) in theater, as well as Belle in The Beauty and the Beast musical at the Social Antzoki Theater. Another achievement of hers is the recording of the soundtrack of the documentary Kresala for the Spanish EITB tv channel.
She has also been involved in several editions of: Bach's Festival (Bilbao) and Musika-Música Festival (Euskalduna Congress and Music Palace, Bilbao); Young Singer Cycle 2019 (Madrid), been selected by Madrid's Opera Friends' Association; "La música me divierte" Cycle (Bilbao), Spring's Classical Concerts (Basauri); Autumn's Concerts 2015 (Lyric Awarded Gala) organized by Diputación Foral de Vizcaya, in the 13th Basque’s Musical Spring, organized by the Alfredo Kraus’ Friends Association (AMAK); Juventudes Musicales’ Season Concerts, etc.
Among the theatres she has performed are: Euskalduna, Music Palace (Bilbao, Spain), Gayarre Theather (Pamplona, Spain), Bauer Palace's Theatre (Madrid), Victoria Theatre (Priego de Córdoba, Spain), Montserrat Caballé Auditorium (Arganda del Rey, Madrid), Villasuso Palace (Vitoria, Spain), Barakaldo Antzokia Theatre (Barakaldo), Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, Social Antzoki Theatre (Basauri), Basque Country’s Museum of Gernika, Andrés Isasi Theater (Getxo), Lonbo Areto (Arrigorriaga), ENT's Theatre (Pamplona, Spain), in Civican Auditorium of Pamplona, Navarra’s School of Theatre, El Carmen Auditorium (Sangüesa, Spain),...
As far as languages are concerned, she has been awarded the First Certificate in English (FCE), C2 in Basque, A1 in French, B1.2 in German and B1 in Italian by the Official Language School of Deusto.
