Gizelxanath Rodriguez

Gizelxanath Rodriguez is a soprano, cellist, and guitarist. Currently, she teaches voice at Bucknell University. She is the bandleader of the Afro Yaqui Music Collective, Insurrealistas, and Latin Sway. She has been a featured artist at the Lincoln Center National Dance Institute and Repertorio Español. Rodriguez was the recipient of The Metropolitan Opera Encouragement Award at the San Diego Regional Competition 2003, and in 2014 she received the Latin Ace Award for her contributions to New York’s Latin American music scene.

Rodriguez has studied at the Mozarteum Hochschule für Musik, the Conservatory of Tijuana, and the University of Baja California.

Notable performances include her role as Serafina in Medina’s Serafina and Arcangela (Los Angeles, Eutrepe’s Opera 2003), Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (New York at Lincoln Center) National Dance Institute, 2007), a tribute to Astor Piazzolla (Sheen Center, NYC, 2015), and Kautesamai in Barson’s Mirror Butterfly (D.C at the Kennedy Center, 2018). Most recently, Rodriguez performed at the Papaya Latinx Festival in Bristol, UK (2024), and at Cornell University’s “Sounding Kiskeya” Music Festival and Research Symposium (2026) as a featured soloist.

Rodriguez was an artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 and has produced three solo albums. She continues her life as a performer and educator.