Javier Rivas has performed several concerts interpreting chamber music, oratorio and opera. Conducted under the baton of Italo Riffo, Eduardo Prado among other conductors. Performing in stages such as, Teatro Empire (Buenos Aires) Auditorium Armando Duffey Blanc, Aula Magna Universidad Católica de Temuco, Aula Magna Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Municipal de Arica, Municipal de Temuco, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM), Centro Cultural El Austral de Valdivia, Teatro San Ginés, Teatro Cervantes de Valdivia, 52° Semanas musicales de Frutillar. As a soloist in G.F. Handel’s Messiah (2021) and semi-finalist in the 3rd edition of the International Opera Competition Chile-Italy of the Associazione Amici della Musica (2020), she debuts in the role of Camille de Roussillon in the operetta Die Lustige Witwe by F. Lehar (2022), Gardener in the opera Il signor Bruschino by G. Rossini (2015), scenes from Les Pecheurs de perles by G. Bizet in the role of Nadir and L’elisir d’amore by G. Donizetti in the role of Nemorino in the opera workshop of the IMUAH under the stage direction of Gonzalo Cuadra (2022).
Invited to Galas such as M° Aurelia Cárdenas, Vaivén como un vals and Res Diversa. He has also performed with notable figures of national music such as the band Los Jaivas in their symphonic tour of 12 concerts in the Region of Los Ríos and in the reinauguration of the Teatro Cervantes in Valdivia with the soprano Verónica Villarroel. He began his singing studies at the Catholic University of Temuco and continued them at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago. His main singing teachers have been Isabel Bambaren Vigil, Ivoshka Tello León and Pablo Salas Moya. For two consecutive years (2020 and 2021) he has been awarded scholarships by the Williams Foundation, The Thistle Trust, Juventus Lyrica (Argentina) and the Orquesta Filarmonica del Municipio de Jaragùa do Sul (Brazil). Active student of master classes with maestros Alexandra Aubert, Graciela Araya, Patricio Sabaté, Patricia Cifuentes, André dos Santos, Armando Noguera, Darío Schmunck, Alejandra Malvino, and Cristina Gallardo-Domas among others. Besides being part of the Intensive Workshop “Melodies de Gabriel Fauré” where the study, historical context, diction and life of the composer was covered with André dos Santos in Brazil and selected by the soprano Enivia Muré to be part of the active students of the Workshop “Gratitude Week” for lyric singers (Mexico 2022).
