Carlos Rodríguez Otero
Director of Music
Carlos Rodríguez Otero is the Director of Music at St Edmund Hall.
Carlos was born in Santiago de Compostela and grew up in Bristol, learning the violin and piano. He read Music at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, and was later a Tenor Lay Clerk at St John’s College, Cambridge from 2021–24. During 2018–21, Carlos was Director of the Fisher House Schola Cantorum and has ample experience directing choral and orchestral projects across the UK. He has an active performing life as a tenor – regularly singing with Tenebrae and other concert and church choirs – and enjoys teaching music to all ages, supervising early European history, harmony and counterpoint for the Faculty of Music at Cambridge. He is also an active composer.
Carlos’ general research interest is in medieval and early-modern music in England, Spain and Italy, focusing on liturgical music, music and ceremony, performance practice, compositional techniques, early music theory, harmony and counterpoint. He is currently finishing a PhD in sixteenth-century sacred music in Galicia (Spain), supervised by Prof. María José de la Torre Molina and Prof. Iain Fenlon at the University of Malaga.
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