Eva Conti

Eva Conti Alegria, flamenco dancer, has been a featured dancer, soloist, choreographer and musical arranger for the New Jersey based Alborada Spanish Dance Theater since 2006. With the ensemble SEGUE she has performed extensively and given numerous workshops about flamenco and the music of Spain throughout the northeast. She studied flamenco dance and castanets in both New York and in Spain (at the legendary Amor de Dios Studio in Madrid) with José Molina, Omayra Amaya, Inmaculada Ortega, Pastora Galvan, Olga Pericet, Farruquito and Adrian Santana. She has participated yearly in the National Institute of Flamenco workshops in Albuquerque and in the Maria Benitez Institute for Spanish Dance workshop in Santa Fe since 2008. She has danced as a soloist to the music of Bizet, De Falla, Albeniz, Piazolla, Granados, D’Rivera, Surinach, and Boccherini, with the Queens Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Atlantic Classical, and New Haven Symphony Orchestras and with the chamber groups, Ulysses Quartet, Windscape, Sylvan Winds, Gabriel Ensemble, Engle Winds, and the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival.

Eva brings a lifetime of musical study and performance to her flamenco dance. Since graduating from the Manhattan School of Music she has been performing extensively as a professional classical musician on both French horn and classical guitar. She is currently principal horn of the New Haven Symphony and the Berkshire Opera, and has played in numerous Broadway shows. She has performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera, New Jersey Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and the Radio City Orchestra. She toured the US and Canada as a member of the Barbra Streisand Orchestra for several years and is on the CD/DVD of the 2006 tour and the 2012 Back to Brooklyn tour. Eva recently released a CD of the Music for Eva Suite for horn and jazz piano composed by Tomoko Ohno. It is now available on Amazon and iTunes.

Ms. Conti holds a Master’s Degree in French horn from the Manhattan School of Music and Bachelor’s Degrees in Classical Guitar and one in Biology from the University of Rhode Island.

Eva designs and creates her own costumes