Carmen Collado López

Carmen Collado López (born May 6, 1942 in Havana ) is a Cuban music teacher and choir director.

Collado studied at the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán with Margot Rojas Mendoza and obtained a diploma in choral conducting and music education at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin . From 1960 to 1962 she was assistant to the director of the children's choir of the Cuban National Library, after which she worked in the same position in the choir of the Havana Conservatory.

In 1966 she founded the Choir Department of the Directorate of the Art Schools of Cuba. She developed programs on the topic of choral singing and choral conducting and founded and directed numerous choirs in the following years. She directed the children's, women's and mixed choirs of the Conservatorio Amedeo Roldán (1963–1968, 1972–1983 and 1971–1983), the choir of the Instituto Superior de Arte at the Universidad de las Artes (from 1976), the Choir of the Universidad de La Habana (1986–1994), the Amatis Choir at the Centro Nacional de Música de Concierto (from 1994) and the Polifónico de La Habana Choir of the Centro Provincial de la Música “Antonio María Romeu” ( from 1999).

As a guest conductor she has worked with choirs in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Bulgaria. Germany and Venezuela. She acted as a juror at choir competitions and speaker at conferences in Latin America and Europe, was professor of choral conducting at the music faculty of the '' Instituto Superior de Arte and a member of the Cuban committee at the UNESCO International Music Council . Composers such as Leo Brouwer , Roberto Valera and Electo Silva dedicated works to her for their choral performances, and she was awarded the Medalla por la Educación en Cuba (1983), the Premio Nacional de Cultura Comunitaria (2003) and the Medalla Alejo Carpentier (2003) excellent.

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• EcuRed: Carmen Collado López
• Habana Radio, March 29, 2013: Nace la maestra Carmen Collado López