Estelí
Gomez, soprano, grew up bilingual in Northern California and joined
her first choir at age seven.
Having completed her bachelor’s in
music cum laude from Yale College in 2008, she worked in
2008-9 as associate producer of the Yale Baroque Opera Project, and
productions manager of the Yale Collegium Musicum; she also performed with both
groups.
In addition to her love of early opera and choral music, she has
also performed as a soloist in Opera Theater of Yale
College and Yale Dramat productions; as a soloist, ensemble
singer, arranger, and solo coach with Mixed Company a cappella; as coach and
performer for Yale undergraduate composition classes, under Dr. Kathryn
Alexander; and as choral scholar and voice coach for St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church,
New Haven.
As an ensemble singer she has performed with the Simon
Carrington Chamber Singers, Yale Schola Cantorum, Roomful of Teeth,
Ensemble Caprice, Daniel Taylor's Theatre of Early Music, The Church of St.
Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal, and Etherea Vocal Ensemble; as a soloist she
recently sang the title role in Handel's Agrippina with Opera
McGill, and completed her first year Master's recital in May.
Estelí
is currently a Master's student in voice specializing in early music at
McGill, where she studies with Sanford Sylvan.
