Welcome to Coralia

Coralia, the concert choir of the University of Puerto Rico, was founded by Professor Carmen Acevedo Lucío in 1982. Coralia is composed of experienced students and alumni and specializes in challenging choral works. Its repertoire covers polyphonic music from all periods and folklore from Latin America and Puerto Rico.

Professionally, they have performed with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, the Casals International Festival of Puerto Rico, and under the baton of world-famed conductors such as Margaret Hillis, Krzysztof Penderecki, Helmuth Rilling, Odón Alonso, Eugene Cohn, Guillermo Figueroa and Gustavo Dudamel. The members of Coralia have participated in several concerts sharing the stage with international stars of Bel Canto repertoire such as Ben Hepner, Denyce Graves, Juan Diego Flores, Roberto Alagna, Angela Georghiu, and Cynthia Laurence, among others.

Coralia has represented Puerto Rico in many international choral festivals in South America, United States of America, Canada, and in the last ten years they have also participated in seven international choral competitions in Europe. In these competitions they have received 8 first prizes, 1 second prize, 1 third prize and over 5 gold medals. They have also received the distinction of being named outstanding choir among all competitors in all categories in two of the events.  In May of 2010, Coralia visited Poland and Germany where they shared the stage with excellent choirs from Europe and Japan at the 7th International Choral Festival of Szczecin.

Coralia is now looking forward to visit Argentina as a guest choir at the "Festival Mundial Buenos Aires Coral" in november 2011.