Cristina Altamira

She studied with Marina Prado Bolaños and Manuel Gómez, and performed as soloist with the accompaniment of lutenist Alejandro Herrera and with the Da Camera Ensemble.

After a new period in Venezuela for a series of performances, she returned to Guatemala, where she sang and acted in theatrical productions such as Sophocles' Antigona, Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream), and the musical Un sueño hecho realidad (A Dream Come True) with the Carrusel group, winning the Opus 1983 award for the best theatre music.

At the same time, she has cultivated European baroque and classical repertoire, performing cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and odes by Henry Purcell.

She has participated in festivals and concerts in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Venezuela, and the United States to great acclaim.

The programme, which airs every Friday night at 8 PM for a full hour, is devoted to the dissemination of new discoveries of baroque music from the Americas and Europe, having found a wide audience and critical acclaim.