Born in 1994 in La Coruña, Spain, countertenor Alberto Miguélez Rouco studied with Rosa Domínguez at the Musik-Akademie Basel and attended master classes with Margreet Honig, Sara Mingardo, Sophie Daneman, and Maria Cristina Kiehr, among others. A member of Philippe Jaroussky’s Académie Musicale since 2020, he has per-formed Handel’s Ottone at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and appeared in Legrenzi’s La divisione del mondo in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Versailles and in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. Additional credits include the Trondheim Baroque Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival. His repertoire encompasses such works as Bach’s St. John Passion, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël. Rouco has worked with the conductors Paul Agnew, René Jacobs, Christophe Rousset, and Josep Pons.
July 2021