​Raquel Winnica Young is an Argentine–Polish–American singer and stage director. A specialist in Spanish and Latin American Baroque music, chamber music, and chamber opera, she has developed an international career performing in concert halls and festivals throughout the Americas and Europe. She has collaborated with leading European ensembles such as Il Suonar Parlante, Remix Ensemble, Elyma Ensemble, and Los Músicos de su Alteza.

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In the United States, she has appeared with Chatham Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, Les Délices, The Newberry Consort, Kentucky Opera, Atlanta Baroque, The Rose Ensemble, and the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, among others. Her artistic versatility has led her into a fertile territory where performance, stage direction, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary creation converge. She is currently an artist-in-residence with Songs of Seeking in Portugal, a project exploring the boundaries of operatic singing, extended vocal techniques, and improvisation. In parallel, she collaborates in Madrid with the theater company Baraka Teatro as a singer-actress in their play Pinocho anatomía de una mentira, presentado en Septiembre de 2025.

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In the pedagogical field, she has taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has offered courses in vocal performance and interpretation for singers in Argentina, Brazil, and Portugal. As a stage director, she has worked at the FEMUSC International Festival (Brazil) and the ISOFOM International Festival (Mexico).

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Ms.Winnica Young holds degrees in Vocal Performance from the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. She also holds a Master’s degree in Advanced Theatre Studies from UNIR and is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro (Portugal), where her research and creative work focus on the life and legacy of Etty Hillesum.

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She has been selected for Erasmus mobility at the University of Castilla–La Mancha through July 2026, where she continues to develop her research-creation project. Among her upcoming performances are Bajo un mismo cielo (Under One Sky), a literary-musical recital intertwining fragments from Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters with Yiddish songs from ghettos and Yiddish theater, to be presented on January 21 and 24 at Espacio Ronda in Madrid. The project was previously presented in Pittsburgh in January 2026. In April, she will tour the United States with Apollo’s Fire, culminating in a performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with the program O Jerusalem, featuring Judeo-Ashkenazi repertoire.