Born in the city of Irapuato in Guanajuato, Alejandra Sandoval completed her Bachelor of Music (in singing) at the School of Music of the University of Guanajuato in 2005. She has studied and attended master classes with renowned singers and national and international opera teachers, such as Dunja Vejzovic, Francisco Araiza, Isir Almaguer, Enrique Patrón de Rueda, Noé Colin, Victoria Loukianetz, Carlos Aransay, Graciela Araya, Carlos Conde, Katherine Hartgrove, Peter Mark, Stefano Lovato, Andrés Sarré, AbbieFurmansky, etc.
She was the winner of the XXIV National Singing Contest “Carlo Morelli” in 2006, held in Mexico City at the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico´s most important contest. She won the third prize in the National Singing Contest “Opera of San Miguel” in June 2009. She was a semifinalist and finalist in several international competitions: “Trujillo City” in Peru, “Iris Adami Corradetti” in Padova, Italy, “Competizione dell´Opera” in Dresden, “Francisco Viñas” in Barcelona, Spain, International Competition “Toti dal Monte” in Treviso, Italy. In Havana, Cuba, she was selected for one of the important singing competitions “Hans Gabor Belvedere”, held in Austria in July 2007.
Alejandra worked with renowned conductors, such as Enrique Batiz, Yoav Talmi, Arthur Fagen, Toby Purser, Jorge Parodi, Ivan López Reynoso, Ramón Shade, Silvain Gasacon, Lanfranco Marcelletti, Dorian Wilson, Srba Dinîc, Mario Rodriguez Taboada , John Goodwin , Rodrigo Macías.
She has performed with the theState of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Opera, the Orchestra of the Teatro de Bellas Artes, Georgia State Univeristy Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the UNAM (OFUNAM), Vienna Opera Festival Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the University of Michoacán, the Querétaro Philharmonic Orchestra, the Michoacán Symphony, Camerata of Coahuila, Juárez City Symphony, and others.
Alejandra has appeared in various international festivals like the “International Festival Cervantino” in Guanajuato andthe “Festival del Centro Historico” in Mexico City.
Recently she starred as Norina in the Don Pasquale staged by the Camerata de Coahuila in the Teatro del Bicentenarioin Leon, Gto., and debuted in the role of Donna Anna with the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Juarez under the stage direction of Oscar Tapia. In 2012 she toured Belorussia´s major cities on a recital series with the Russian-born pianist Alexandr Pashkov.
In December 2012/ January 2013 she toured China´s major cities like Beijing, Guangzou and Macao as soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the State Mexico under conductor Enrique Batiz, where she sung Villa-Lobos´s BachianasBrasileiras N°5 in China´s most important concert halls like the National Performings Arts Centre in Beijing and the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall in Guangzou.
