| Catching Carlos Mena at home in Vitoria (Spain) is a complicated task. Even though he himself admits that in recent months he has reduced the number of his commitments and performances, his diary is still replete with bookings all over the world.
Carlos is currently one of the ambassadors, one of the clear images of the worldwide projection of Spanish music and, at the same time, a mirror that many young performers, eager to enter the professional world of early music, look into.
And this image of the young performer making a start is not too far off in Mena’s own biography. In 1992, after receiving his basic education in his native Vitoria, he followed the same road as many others and studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, a true Mecca for all those wishing to specialise in early music.
Here, some of this eager young performer’s teachers included Richard Levitt, René Jacobs, Dominique Vellard, Nicolau de Figueiredo, Carlos Harmuch, Jessica Flow and Emma Kirkby. He not only studied singing, but interpretation, theatre and all the subjects he considered would be of some use to him. |
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