Unai de la Rosa Hernández

Born in Leganés, Spain, in 2001. Since 2022, he studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s “Alfredo Kraus” Fundación Areces Voice Chair first with professor Susan Bullock CBE, and currently with professor Juliane Banse. He has been granted scholarships by Conserjería de Educación, Universidades y Ciencia de la Comunidad de Madrid and Fundación Albéniz.

Bass baritone, he studied singing since the age of four at the Fundación Coral Jacinto Benavente in Leganés and, since 2019, at the Centro de Perfeccionamiento Vocal Rita Moldao with her as teacher. He has also attended masterclasses by Adrian Thompson and Bo Skovhus, among others.

In Madrid, he has performed at the Teatros del Canal, as a member of the Los Pequeños Cantores of the JORCAM; Teatro Real (with its Orchestra and Choir); Auditorio Nacional de Música and Teatro de la Zarzuela.

He has taken part in productions such as Mosorgsky’s Boris Gudunov; Puccini’s Suor Angelica; Wagner’s Parsifal; Domingos a la Gayarre with Fernando Palacios; Mozart’s Requiem; and he has been soloist in La Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, La Gazza Ladra and L’Enfant et les Sortiléges (operas), Handel’s Messiah or Mozart’s Bertulia Liberata (oratorios) and el Niño Judío (zarzuela).

He performed as soloist at the 2014 Tolosa Children’s Choir International Festival, where they won the fourth prize and the Audience Award, and at the Cancionero Popular de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza Album. He was also awarded fifth prize at the Mimas Music Festival (young voices category).

As a student of the School, he has performed within the Soloists of the 21st century series.