Carlos Rodríguez Otero was born in Santiago de Compostela

and grew up in Bristol, studying violin and piano and receiving

extensive orchestral and chamber music training. He read Music at

Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, later

singing as a Tenor Lay Clerk at St John’s College. Since 2024, he has

been Director of Music at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and maintains an

international performing career as a choral conductor and singer.

Carlos also teaches and supervises at the Universities of Cambridge

and Oxford, and maintains a broad freelance teaching practice.

His compositional and performance work is underpinned by an

ongoing research interest in sacred music of Early Modern Spain.

Cruz was commissioned by Continuum Choir and premiered in

Clare College Chapel, Cambridge.