Clara Elena Montes is a vocalist and voice teacher with a passion for early and new music. She is especially interested in ensemble singing, collaboration with composers and improvisation. Clara is an avid performer of Renaissance and Baroque repertoires as well as avant-garde and interdisciplinary works. She studied Vocal Performance at Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is currently pursuing graduate studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Clara also writes poetry and takes pictures of things in nature.