Emilio Pons, tenor (Mexico/Germany)
Vocal technique and interpretation;
Spanish, Italian, German and Russian Diction.
Co-founder and Artistic Director, SG-IMFA

Emilio Pons holds a graduate degree in Piano from the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico and a Juris Doctor Degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, in addition to Master and Doctor of Music Degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was a student of Carlos Montané and Andreas Poulimenos. In Europe he studied with KS Francisco Araiza and with soprano Lyubov Stuchevskaja.

Since his professional debut in 2006 at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia, he has performed internationally at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Switzerland; the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Vlaamse Opera, Ghent & Antwerp, Belgium; the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival in Austria; Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Prinzregenten Theater, Theater Freiburg, Landestheater Coburg, and Theater Heidelberg in Germany; Vilnius City Opera in Lithuania; Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile; Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Compañía Nacional de Ópera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, amongst others.

His operatic repertoire encompasses more than thirty roles, including staples of the lyric Fach such as Tamino, Ferrando, Don Ottavio, Il Conte d’Almaviva, Nemorino, Narraboth, Trouffaldino and Lensky and multiple leading roles in lesser known works, including the title role in Porsile’s Spartaco, Mad Woman (Britten-Curlew River), Hypollit (Henze-Phaedra), Egeo and Sole (Cavalli-Il Giasone, commercially released on DVD), Richmond (Battistelli-Richard III), Serge/Adolphe (Martinů-Die drei Wünsche), Fernando (in the German première of Granados’ Goyescas) amongst others. He has sung under the baton of acclaimed conductors such as Mikhail Jurowsky, Danielle Callegari, Jiri Belohlavek, Frédéric Chaslin, Zoltan Pesko, Niksa Bareza, and Cornelius Meister amongst others, and has worked with renowned stage directors such as Robert Carsen, Christof Loy, Guy Joosten, Richard Jones, and Benedikt von Peter.

On the concert and recital stage, he has performed across Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, France, Poland, Russia, Japan, Azerbaijan (with the London Philharmonic Orchestra) and Israel (with the Jerusalem Camerata and the Be'er Sheva Sinfonietta).

Dr. Pons is a member of the European Cultural Parliament.

Dates: June 7-August 9, 2015

www.emiliopons.com