Patricia Caicedo, an international expert in Latin American and Iberian art songs, will coach three Cal Poly student vocalists in Spanish song on Thursday, March 13, starting at 11:10 a.m. in the Davidson Music Center, room 218. The event is free and open to the public, but a parking permit is required to park on campus.
Caicedo is the founder and director of the Barcelona Festival of Song as well as a multi-faceted artist-scholar who’s performed throughout the world. Her albums consist of art songs sung in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and indigenous languages, with two albums dedicated exclusively to female composers.
The world-renowned performer holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a medical doctor’s degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina.
This article appears in Mar 6-16, 2025.