MALENA DAYEN
Malena Dayen teaches singing at UNIS since 2012. As a private voice teacher at UNIS she has worked with hundreds of singers and produced over 30 solo recitals at school and in several locations around New York City.
Malena is an Argentinian singer and stage director. In 2020 Malena won the 1st Prize in Catapult Opera’s competition for innovation in opera and directed Teatro Grattacielo’s Fedora and Mefistofele video productions, that were selected to the Munich Music Video Awards, the 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival in Bali and the London International Music Video Awards. Ms. Dayen directed The Late Walk, a new opera in collaboration with Bare Opera and the Decameron Opera Coalition, that was inducted into The Library of Congress's “Performing Arts COVID-19 Response Collection.” Previously she directed a production of Don Giovanni and starred and directed Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires with Bare Opera in New York City.
As a classical singer Malena was praised by the New York Times as “Outstanding” for her March 2013 performance at Carnegie Hall in Moravec's The Blizzard Voices with the Oratorio Society of New York. Her operatic roles include Carmen, Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) and she has performed at the Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the Natchez Opera Festival, Festival d’Art Vocal de Montreal among others.
Born and raised in Argentina, Ms. Dayen is a Spanish music and tango specialist, performing this repertoire in venues such as Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute and the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires. Malena is the lead singer with New Aires Tango, an ensemble that performs contemporary arrangements of tangos and boleros since 2010.
Malena has concertized extensively with the Oratorio Society of New York, with whom she has toured Hungary, Italy, Uruguay and Brazil. Other international appearances include concerts with the Teatro Colón Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico.
Since 2015 she is a collaborative artist for the Lullaby Project at the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. Malena was also a member of the voice faculty of the Bard College Conservatory Preparatory Division.
Malena holds an MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College in the Performance and Interactive Media Arts program (PIMA) and a MM and a PSD from the Mannes College of Music The New School.
