Carmen Luisa Letelier

Carmen Luisa Letelier Valdés is a Chilean contralto and voice teacher, the winner of the National Prize for Musical Arts in 2010.

Biography Carmen Luisa Letelier is the daughter of composer and artist Margarita Valdés Subercaseaux. She and her brother were influenced by their parents to take an interest in music.

Letelier studied pedagogy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where she graduated as a teacher in 1967. In 1979 she obtained her title of superior interpreter in singing at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile. There she was a student of Lila Cerda, , , , and Hernán Wurth.

Letelier began her career as a teacher in 1969, at the Pontifical Catholic University's Institute of Music. After almost ten years, she moved to the Department of Music and Sonology at the University of Chile. In 1980 she was appointed a full professor at that university.

In September 2010, she won the Chilean National Prize for Musical Arts, becoming the third member of her family to do so. Her father won the National Art Prize (with a mention in music) in 1968, while her brother received the National Prize for Musical Arts in 2008.

In December 2018 she succeeded Luis Merino Montero as president of the .