Ana María Raga (Caracas, Venezuela, December 16, 1967) is a Venezuelan musician, choir and orchestra director, pianist, arranger, composer and teacher.

Choirs directed by her: Raga started her training as a musician at the “Juan Manuel Olivares” Music School and obtained her Piano Performer degree in 1990 under the tutelage of Marisa Romera.

Raga has taken Composition and Choral Conducting Courses given by internationally recognized masters and professors such as Alberto Grau, Vic Nees, Robert Sund.

Professor Raga is a member of the Universidad de las Artes (UNEARTE) faculty where she teaches choral conducting.

She has been a consultant to the Misión Música, managed by the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar, also known as Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (FESNOJIV) [National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela] for the development of a “Symphonic Choirs System”.

As a guest conductor and pedagogue Raga participates in numerous festivals and events in Europe, Asia, North and South America.

She has been invited to present workshops for children choir directors in León, Guanajuato, Mexico (2006) and on Latin-American Repertoire for Female Voices at the Busan Choral Festival and Competition in Korea (2007).

In 2010 and 2011 she organized a workshop on Latin-American Music for Mixed Choirs at the Alpe Adria Cantat Festival in Lignano, Italy.

In 2012 and 2013 she led the training workshops offered by NEOJIBA, the System for Orchestras and Choirs of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

Her presentation dealt with the Social Impact of Choral Singing and offered valuable insights from projects in Venezuela and the Andean region.

The latter one is the second choir that was created within the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela Foundation's “Pequeños Cantores” project, an educational initiative with a social component directed at children and adolescents.

Under Raga's and Arismendi's leadership, the choir has attained a level of excellence permitting it to participate in important international activities in recent years.

Concerts: “Simil est regnum caelorum”, sacred renaissance and contemporary repertoire with the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, presented at different locations in the city of Caracas.

IX Intercollegiate Humboldt School Choir Festival presented in various Simón Bolívar University halls in Sartenejas.

“Un Canto por la Paz” [A song for peace] with the Children Singers from Lara and the choirs of the Aequalis Foundation in El Hatillo.

During this year, she offered workshops for the choirs of the NEOJIBA (Salvador de Bahía, Brazil) System and the Medellín Music School Network (Colombia).

“Impresiones del Alma” concert of poetry and sacred repertoire with the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, Lutheran Church, Caracas.

1st Choral Meeting during Easter Week (as director of Aequalis Aurea and Humboldt School Choir), Santa María Madre de Dios Church, Manzanares, Caracas.

2010 Los Angeles Tour, Alberto Arvelo Torrealba's Cantata Criolla, directed by Gustavo Dudamel, Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos and Schola Cantorum de Venezuela a capella concert.

Participated with Aequalis Aurea at the IV Meeting of Equal Voices in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, organized by the Canticum Merú Choir Civil Association.

Presented the show CONTRASTES with the Aequalis Aurea Choir at the Concert Hall of the Museum for Contemporary Art in Caracas.

The Aequalis Foundation has offered choral activities in places where music can provide tools for social reinsertion and integration.

An example is the women penitentiary (INOF – Instituto Nacional de Orientación Femenina) in Los Teques where the foundation initiated the creation of prison orchestras and choirs.

Currently the Foundation manages the Aequalis Aurea (female voices) and the Humboldt School Choir Project (for children and youth from 4 to 17 years old).

The latter one constitutes the platform for the Intercollegiate Choir Festival that has been organized since 2005 pursuing greater visibility for and promotion of choral practice that takes place in schools.