Andrea Puente
is a harpist. A native of Mexico City, she has played orchestral and chamber musician throughout Mexico, Europe and North America. She studied at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico, and was selected as a Fellow at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw and then for the Nicanor Zabaleta World Masterclass in Spain. She was Principal Harp in the Orquesta Ciudad de Malaga in Spain, then with the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Jalisco Philharmonic in Guadalajara, Mexico. A founding member of the harp-flute duo Arpa y Aulos in Los Angeles, Andrea plays with a variety of orchestras in Southern California. She is an advocate and promoter of the legacy of Mexican opera composer Daniel Catan, adjunct faculty at College of the Canyons in California and Artist-in-Residence for Voices for Tolerance at the Los Angeles Opera.