Join us for a master class and voice workshop on the mariachi voice. Dr. Ulloa will teach practical and stylistic applications of the mariachi style, several songs from her new book, THE MARIACHI VOICE (Oxford University Press), and work live with singers while they perform for the audience.
About Dr. Juanita Ulloa:
Operachi songstress, Professor of Voice, ADDY Award-Winning voice-over actress, scholar, author, pianist and songwriter, Dr. Juanita Ulloa has been a concert soloist in Spain, Latin America, and the United States for over three decades. Juanita Ulloa highlights the beauty, diversity, and power of Mexican and Latin American vocal traditions, of which she has unparalleled knowledge. She champions songs and lyrics by women and features this message through national and international concerts. She earned the title of Musical Ambassador representing Mexico at Mexican Consulate events. She has appeared as a soloist at international Olympic and major stadiums, arts centers, festivals, adjudication for competitions, concerts, master classes and Latin Pops symphonies.
Dr. Ulloa is a six-time vocal and song writing winner of Festival de la canciόn latinamericana, has 7 CDs of award-winning mariachi and Latin American song, and has won classical National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competitions in Colorado and Wyoming. In 2020, she introduced mariachi singing as a commercial vocal category at two chapters for the NATS in Northern California and Cal-Western Regional NATS. She has inspired many students to compete and win at local and regional levels in NATS, as National Champions of Mariachi Extravaganza, American Idol, and the White House. As a scholar she has presented on mariachi singers at national NATS conferences since 2010. Dr. Ulloa has served on the Grammy board and is currently on the Advisory Board and Diversity committee for the San Francisco Chapter of NATS. Ms. Ulloa continues her own longtime vocal training with Jane Randolph, with past work on zarzuela in Madrid with Ana Maria de Iriarte and Spanish art song work in France with Dalton Baldwin.
The Operachi songstress has been reviewed alongside Santana as “an artist in a niche of her own” by Hispanic Magazine.
Raised in Mexico City, Panama, and Spain, she calls Mexico home, with a current base in California. Dr. Ulloa has two award-winning mariachi/bolero recordings with Mujeres & Mariachi and Canta mi son!mariachi for families. Canta conmigo is a separate five-CD series dedicated to bilingual topics for children (some with matching songbooks) available at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5cMzzdABemSUXCOAKDKUoRand CDBaby.com. Her discs have won regional Parent’s Council, Disney, NAPPA, and Parent’s Choice awards. She edited and published 3 volumes of Mexican art song and rancheras by nationalist Antonio Gomezanda as sheet music, all available at Classical Vocal Reprints at www.classicalvocalrep.com. Dr. Ulloa is the first to publish on the mariachi voice in the popular book series, So You Want to Sing World Music: A Guide for Performers in 2019, sponsored by National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) available at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538112281/So-You-Want-to-Sing-World-Music-A-Guide-for-Performers .
Dr. Ulloa holds music degrees from Yale University, UC Berkeley and a Doctorate in Vocal Performance and Hispanic Studies from the University of Northern Colorado. She is certified in the three levels of Somatic Voicework for commercial singing, specializing in Mexican and Latin American song, and is a court certified Spanish linguist. The songstress has adjudicated voice and mariachi at national festivals and has served on music faculties at University of Texas at El Paso, Texas State University, Northwest Vista College, and Austin Community College, and piano accompaniment at University of Texas in San Antonio. Dr. Ulloa is a Professor of Voice at Laney Community College and San Joaquin Delta Community College in Northern California and maintains a vibrant national private voice studio (in person/online), while touring offering master classes, concerts, and workshops.
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