Cesar Ulloa

Biography

After an international opera and concert career of more than 15 years, César Ulloa devotes his time to the development of opera singers around the world. He has served on the voice faculties of Palm Beach Atlantic University, New World School of the Arts and was visiting professor of voice at the University of Montreal in 2006. He is currently full time voice professor of voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and serves as Master Teacher at the San Francisco Opera Center / Merola and Adler programs. For the past sixteen years he served as the principal vocal instructor and musical consultant for S.I.V.A.M., Mexico's most prominent young artist program. He is also presently on the faculty of Dolora Zajick's Institute for Dramatic Voices and for five years he served as Master Teacher for the L'Atelier Lyrique de L'Opéra de Montreal and Palm Beach Opera Young Artist Studio.

His students regularly perform at major opera houses and concert halls around the world and are winners in countless international vocal competitions, as well as members of such prominent young artist programs as the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program (Los Angeles Opera), Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program
(Washington National Opera), Houston Grand Opera Studio, and San Francisco Opera Center Merola and Adler programs.

With more than fifty roles in his repertoire, César Ulloa's singing career brought him to the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Washington Opera, Canadian Opera, L'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony and The Cleveland Symphony,
among numerous others. He has shared the stage with some of opera's greatest luminaries and has worked under such prominent conductors as Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Richard Bonynge, Eduardo Müeller, and Nicola Rescigno. A native of Cuba, he received his music degree from the University of Tampa (Florida) and pursued further professional studies at Southern Methodist University, as well as language studies in Italy and Germany. He studied voice with tenors Thomas Hayward and Franco Corelli. He was First Place Winner of the American Opera Auditions.