Born in Mendoza in Argentina, Veronica Cangemi began her musical training as a cellist. Turning later to singing, she won the Argentina National Singing Competition, going on to study with Heather Harper in London. She won first prize in the Buenos Aires Mozart Competition and first prize at the Barcelona Viñas Competition, embarking on a career in the concert hall, opera house and recording studio. She won particular success at the Versailles Festival de Musique Baroque in Gluck’s Armide, at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in Handel’s Resurrezione, at the Salzburg Mozart Weeks and in leading theatres, including the Teatro Colón, the Montpellier Opéra, the Opéra de Lyon, and the San Francisco Opera. She has worked with leading conductors.