Anyone who wants to hear a pure voice, soft treble at the same time as penetrating, and an outstanding sensitivity has in Cecilia Montemayor a singer committed to her art. She is capable of shaking the listener for her communicative power and the beauty of her voice. He unites his overwhelming interpretive personality with a musicality that involves his technical precision and his fidelity to the score. Her concert and opera career with a string lyrical soprano spinto has led her to participate in concerts in Mexico, the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia and South Africa. It has a repertoire that includes an opera, an art song and an oratorio, with a very special affinity for new proposals and the repertoire outside the traditional canon.
Promoter of the Art Song repertoire at an international level, and a FONCA fellow, she is currently in the diffusion of her critical anthology “The Art Song in the work of Julián Carrillo”, which together with a recording of the works on CD, through different cities in Mexico and the United States.
This recording reveals a different side of the composer Hernández Gama, known in the community for his work as a choral teacher and conductor, and as a composer of cantatas and symphonic works.
13th century Catholic sequence attributed to Innocent III and the Franciscan monk Jacopone da Todi († 1306) and adopted in the Catholic rite in 1727,
“El Teatro Universitario se llenó de la poesía de Cervantes, gracias a la portentosa voz de Cecilia Montemayor. Con voz melodiosa y poderosa que se caracteriza por sus agudos penetrantes, Cecilia Montemayor interpretó las poesías de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra en El Quijote y más poesías del autor”
Alejandro Salas – Abril, 2016
“Una delicia para el oído fue el concierto que ofreció la Soprano”
Conaculta
“Una de las voces más importantes de la Canción de Arte en México”
El Porvenir
“Poseedora de una voz privilegiada y tiene una admirable vocación por la enseñanza”
Players of life
Templo de San Francisco de Asis, Monterrey, N.L.
