Alejandra earned her Bachelor of Music from the Cardenal Miranda Institute (School of Sacred Music), lead by orchestra and chorus conductor Xavier González Tescucano and a Diploma in Music Performance from the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music (UK) and was a member of Taller de Ópera de Sinaloa (Sinaloa’s Opera Studio), lead by baritone Carlos Serrano.. She now studies with celebrated Mexican mezzo-soprano María Luisa Tamez and vocal pedagogue Carlos Aransay.  Her acting coach is stage director and dramatist Ragnar Conde, and her dancing coach is choreographer and ballerina Norma Arredondo.

 

Esqueda was born in Mexico City, and began her piano and ballet studies at 7. At 15, she began singing lessons with soprano Maria Eugenia Sutti, having experiences on stage at an early age with classical theatre and musicals.

 

Her operatic debut was in 2010 as Adina in “L’Elisir d’Amore” by Gaetano Donizetti, her zarzuela debut was in Tomás Bretón’s “La Verbena de la Paloma” as Casta. She sang in the Mexican première of Wagner’s “Die Feen” as the fairy Jemina. Major roles include Gilda (Rigoletto), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Nanetta (Falstaff), Pamina (Magic Flute), Adina (Elisir), Micaëla/Frasquita (Carmen), and Violetta (Traviata). Solo repertoire includes oratorios y cantatas such as Requiems by Mozart, Brahms and Fauré, Händel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Carmina Burana.

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She’s a member of the Mexican independent opera companies Opera Infantil (Opera for Children) and Escenia Ensamble (Ragnar Conde, director), where she often works on new operatic and interdisciplinary projects, such as “MozART”.

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She has been an active member of several artistic groups such as Melos Gloriae, Xavier Gonzalez Tescucano Chorus (Capella Miranda), Coral Maestoso, Chamber Chorus of the National School of Music, Chorus of the Community of Culiacán, and the National Fine Arts Institute’s Ensemble of Soloists, with whom she has sung gregorian chant, classical polyphony, opera, and choral masterpieces both as a soloist and chorister.

 

Her versatile voice has been also been sought after in the Mexican film industry. Her voice can be heard in the original soundtracks of “El Secreto” (The Secret, 2010) and “El Lado Oscuro de la Luz” (The Dark Side of Light, 2014) and "La Ira y el Seól" by Mexican composer Gus Reyes. She has recorded her first concert work by composer Venus Rey Jr. Mexican Bachiana no. 3, Dances of Desire.

 

She was a semifinalist in the international “Rivelas Panama Opera Competition”  in Panama City, Panama on August 2012, in VI Sinaloa International Singing Competition, 2014, and in “Nuevas Voces Líricas para Antofagasta”, 2016, in Chile.

 

She shares herself with children and teenagers as a Voice Teacher and Chorus Master in Esperanza Azteca Symphony Orchestra in Chiapas, Mexico.