BIOGRAPHY

Andrea Salcedo is a native from Jalisco, Mexico. She grew up in Chicago where she arrived at the age of 10 years old. Currently she is based in Madrid, Spain.

She is the first female flamenco guitarist from her home country and is considered an international reference by the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

She graduated with honors from Norther Illinois University in DeKalb, IL where she received her bachelor’s in Music Performance in Classical Guitar studying under Maestro Fareed Haque. She also received an Associate in Arts at Morton College in Cicero, IL., and graduated from Merit School of Music in Chicago.

She started her flamenco guitar studies with Spanish guitarist Jesus de Araceli, during his Chicago residence with the company Soul & Duende founded by dancer and choreographer Azucena Vega.

Andrea is an artist in residence at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago.

She has studied in Spain at the “Cristina Heeren Foundation of Flamenco Art” with Eduardo Rebollar, master classes at the “Guitar Festival of Cordoba” with Manolo Sanlúcar, Juan Manuel Cañizares y Daniel Navarro “Niño de Pura”, and in Madrid with Aquilino Jiménez “El Entri”.

Throughout her artistic career she has performed at important venues and festivals in Mexico, Spain, United States, Colombia, Czech Republic, and China.

In March 2019, she travels to Madrid, Spain to continue her studies at “Casa Patas Flamenco Conservatory” in Madrid under Jose Manuel Montoya. She makes her artistic debut in Spain at the “Ellas Crean Festival 2019.” She also participated at the festival “Suma Flamenca 2020”, “Ellas Crean Festival 2021” in a collaboration with jazz musicians Trinidad Jimenez and Ernesto Aurignac, “Jerez Off Festival 2021”, and the “Flamenco Joven Festival 2021” in Madrid. Andrea also performed at the “Arles Flamenco Festival” in France in August 2021.

Andrea did three years of advanced studies at the Casa Patas Flamenco Conservatory. She attended the prestigious program “New Skills 4 New Artists” at the Conservatory Reina Sofia, in collaboration with the Erasmus program from the European Union, the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland, and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Belgium. She also studied the course “El Flamenco, un universo estético multidisciplinar” organized by the University of Córdoba, under the direction of David Pino.

In 2022 she released her debut album titled “Fuente y Cauce de la Guitarra Flamenca”, recorded with renowned guitarist and producer, Jesus de Rosario. Andrea toured the United States where she presented this new recording at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, at his alma mater Northern Illinois University, at the Mexican Cultural Institute at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., and in California.