NEWS: Aliana de la Guardia Receives NEFA Public Art Leaning Fund Grant

Aliana is one of 13 inaugural recipients of a Public Art Learning Fund grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is pursuing a custom-tailored mentorship program with Double Edge Theatre shadowing producing director Adam Bright and co-artistic director Carlos Uriona focused on the development and production of public art, events and community engagement. The Public Art Learning Fund provides grants to support professional development opportunities for New England artists to strengthen their public art practices.

Aliana de la Guardia has garnered acclaim for her “dazzling flights of virtuosity” (Gramophone) in “vocally fearless” performances that are “fizzing with theatrical commitment” (The Boston Globe). The Cuban-American artist is a co-founder of Guerilla Opera, with which she has produced many world premiere operas with roles tailor-made for her ferocious stage presence. As a soprano vocalist specializing in new music and garnering skills as a physical theater artist, she is especially fit for premiering experimental new operas as well as genre-bending performance art, devised works and intimate performances. She is also the owner and founder of Dirty Paloma Voice Studio, a private voice studio with over 30 students ranging from middle school to professional; the treasurer of Granite State National Association of Teachers of Singing; and on the Haverhill Multicultural Festival 2020 planning committee. De la Guardia has an BM in vocal performance, with an emphasis in opera as well as MM, vocal performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.