12-15 April 2023, Budapest

Patricia Caicedo

Barcelona Festival of Song

Director

Spain

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Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, a musicologist, and a physician whose scholarship and performances center around Latin American and Iberian art songs and the intersection of music and health. Her research is frame under decolonial studies.

She has released eleven albums and published numerous scholarly editions of scores and books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, the go-to history on its subject, and her groundbreaking book, We are what we listen to: the impact of music on individual and social health. 

Patricia has performed around the world in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song. She is often invited to present lectures and masterclasses worldwide.

Patricia holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor’s degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. She is a former Board Member of the International Music Council.

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