León de Castillo

In 2007, he passed the entry exam and began studying singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, with the headmaster of the institute for singers, Karlheinz Hanser and the vice director Gabriele Lechner.

Only one year after beginning his singing studies, he debuted as a soloist at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, sharing the stage with Plácido Domingo and Patricia Petitbon in the Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda.

[3] He appeared in 2010 with Plácido Domingo and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs as the Thug in the opera Il postino by Mexican composer Daniel Catán.

[4] In 2011, he performed the role of Melibeo in Joseph Haydns La fedeltà premiata and participated in Christian Gerhaher's master class at the SWR Festival in Germany.

He had his debut as Liedersänger at the Schubertiade Mauerbach in 2009 and gave song recitals in Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, England, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Norway, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, and Austria.

He performed with the quartet at: the Maison Heinrich Heine, in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Theatre of the Schönbrunn Palace, at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico City, and at the Kunsthalle Basel.

[7] He has collaborated with pianists such as Matthias Lademann, Christian Koch, Jozef Olechowski; Musical Directors like: Jesús López Cobos, Marc Albrecht, Josep Caballé Domenech, and Christof Ulrich Meier; and orchestras including: the Vienna Symphony and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; and with stage directors such as: Patrice Chéreau, Christof Loy, Torsten Fischer, Emilio Sagi, and Ron Daniels.

[8] Another focus of their research concerned artists such as Anna Seghers, Egon Kisch, and Marcel Rubin who were helped during the war by Gilberto Bosques, also known as the Mexican Schindler.

This project was done in cooperation with the Mexican/American composer, pianist and visual artist Gavin Gamboa and dealt with the relation between sound and the mass of the space.