Marcela Pan

Marcela Pan is a native of Argentina and has performed in the most preeminent theaters in her homeland, including the Colon Opera House, Teatro San Martin, Centro Experimental de Opera del Teatro Colon and Teatro Argentino de La Plata among others. Her roles have included Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte, Cherubino in The marriage of Figaro, Ottavia in The Coronation of Poppea, and Rosina in Barber of Seville. She has also appeared regularly in recitals and has sung in numerous oratorios in her country and abroad. Ms Pan has sung under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta and Helmut Rilling.  In recognition of her talents, Ms Pan was granted a scholarship by the Colon Opera House Foundation to specialize in Baroque Opera and was also awarded Special Prize of the Jury at the Athens Singing competition. She holds a Master’s in Musicology specialized in Performance Practice. She is also a Gluck Fellow and an Artsbridge Scholar. Ms Pan has performed as a guest singer with the UCR orchestra in de Falla’s El AmorBrujo and the Siete Canciones EspanÞolas, with the LA Camerata in Haydn’s Paukenmasse, Mozart’s Requiem and Vivaldi's Stabat Mater, with the All Saints Episcopal Church chorus Handel’s Messiah, and has appeared in solo recitals for different institutions. In the United States, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Disney Hall, as well as the Redlands Bowl Summer Festival.. Among her future engagements, Ms Pan has scheduled performances  in London, Mexico and Buenos Aires. She will soon be featured by the Westwood Symphony performing excerpts from Orfeo ed Euridice. In February of 2010 she will perform the role of Mariana in Moreno Torroba's Luisa Fernanda and in September of the same year she will perform the role of Laura in Ponchielli's La Gioconda in Los Angeles.