Jonatan Alvarado & Ariel Abramovich: Huehuetenango

Jonatan Alvarado started studying guitar in his native Mercedes in the province of Buenos Aires, and later studied composition and conducting in the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he became familiar with early music. He graduated in voice and lute from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he was a student of Rebecca Stewart. 

Alvarado is music director and co-founder of the ensemble Seconda Prat!ca, dedicated to renaissance and early baroque Latin American music, and founding member of Da Tempera Velha, a group specializing in early music from Spain. He collaborates frequently with early music ensembles such as La Chimera, Club Medieval, Sollazzo Ensemble, and Armonia Concertada. He has appeared on the most important European stages, including the Ambronay, Sablé, Royaumont, Laus Polyphonie Antwerp, Utrecht, Estocolmo, and Resonanzen Vienna Festivals, among others. His first solo CD, Pajarillos Fugitivos, was released by Ayros and nominated to the International Classic Music Awards. Upcoming recordings include the debut album of Da Tempera Velha, which will revisit the famous Cancionero de Palacio, and an album with Jessica Denys dedicated to early twentieth-century Argentine popular music . 

A native of Buenos Aires, Ariel Abramovich began studying guitar in his teens and later discovered his passion for jazz and popular Latin American music under the tutelage of Norberto Pedreira, Quique Sinesi, and Miguel de Olaso, who exposed him to Renaissance music. While still a teenager, he devoted himself exclusively to the repertoire for lute and sixteenth-century vihuela, with Dolores Costoyas and Eduardo Egüez. In 1996, he moved to Switzerland to study with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basel. In 1998, he founded the duo El Cortesano with alto José Hernández-Pastor. In 2008, Abramovich embarked on a duo project with leading British early music tenor John Potter, revisiting English lute song from the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth century. Over the last few years, they have presented numerous performances throughout Europe with several programs, culminating in a recording of their own arrangements of Renaissance vocal polyphony (ECM, 2011). In 2013, he founded the duo "Armonía Concertada" with María Cristina Kiehr, dedicated to sixteenth-century Italian and Spanish music for voice and plucked strings. The duo's first album, Imaginario: de un libro de música de vihuela, appeared in 2019. With Jacob Heringman he has released Cifras Imaginarias, an album dedicated to lute and vihuela tablatures. Abramovich is also a member of Da Tempera Velha. 

Since relocating to Seville in 2000, Abramovich has dedicated his focus to these collaborative projects. He has presented programs with French lutenist Eugène Ferré, Scandinavian soprano Anna Maria Friman, flutist and director Michael Form, and Argentine lutenists Evangelina Mascardi, Mónica Pustilnik, and Dolores Costoyas, among others.