Contralto Karen Esquivel was born in the U.S.A., of a Costa Rican mother and father of Mexican descent. She obtained her BME and Master's degree in Voice / Opera Theater at the University of Nebraska, a MM in Opera Production from Florida State University and her Doctorate in Voice Performance from the same institution.
Her experience covers performances in Music Theater to Opera to Oratorio. Esquivel performed as the contralto soloist in performances of Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Schubert’s Mass in C, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Dvorak’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Magnificat, Falla’s El Amor Brujo, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Duruflé Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. Esquivel has performed the roles of Fillipyevna in Eugene Onegin, Dame Quickly in Falstaff