Jonatan Alvarado is a singer and player of (very) old songs, be them contained by medieval and renaissance manuscripts scattered all over the world, or found in the oral traditions of Europe and the Americas. He took his first musical steps in the guitar class at the conservatory and in the municipal choirs of Mercedes, Buenos Aires, conducted by Amalia Guaragna. He then studied Orchestral Conducting, Choral Conducting and Composition at the National University of La Plata. In 2011 he moved to the Netherlands, where he graduated with honors in singing and lute at the Amsterdam Conservatory, in the classes of Xenia Meijer and Fred Jacobs respectively. His specialization in medieval and renaissance repertoire was developed under the guidance of Dr. Rebecca Stewart.
He is musical director and co-founder – together with the Portuguese Nuno Atalaia – of the ensemble Seconda Pratica, which specializes in the performance of Ibero-American music from the 15th to the 17th centuries. He is also a member of Da Tempera Velha, Sollazo Ensemble and Concerto di Margheritta. He collaborates regularly with lutenist Ariel Abramovich and guitarists Jessica Denys and Samuel Diz, as well as with the ensembles Armonía Concertada and ClubMédieval.
His first solo CD, “Pajarillos Fugitivos” (Ayros 2018) was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards in the category of Best Early Music Vocal Album. He has performed in the most important festivals and stages of his speciality, from Boston to Utrecht, from the Bimhuis in Amsterdam and the Konzerthaus in Vienna to the Minatomirai Hall in Yokohama.
Jonatan Alvarado’s eclectic musical restlessness extends his artistic activity to completely disparate projects, always under the common denominator of working from historically informed sources and the use of historical instruments, as in the recovery of the unpublished songbooks of the Spanish Republican exile, the interpretation of tango and Argentine song from the early 20th century in his second solo album “Voces de Bronce” (TRPTK, 2023), or the recovery of the medieval musical archive of the Cathedral of Tui.
