BIO
Alejandro Zuleta is a choral-theater auteur—a composer-conductor who creates large-scale works that move like film and unfold as live drama. His productions fuse choral art, theater, and political narrative into immersive storytelling where the chorus itself becomes a dramatic force. Rather than traditional oratorio or opera, Zuleta’s works evolve cinematically—shifting scenes, layered voices, and sculpted soundscapes that carry audiences through story and emotion.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, and raised within the celebrated Zuleta family of Vallenato musicians, his artistry bridges Colombia’s oral traditions and rigorous classical training in choral and vocal music. Drawing from Latin American, sacred, improvisational, and choral art-music traditions, he has forged a distinctive contemporary voice in large-scale musical storytelling.
Since 2017, Zuleta has served as Director of Music at The Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, where he founded Music at Co-Cath (MACC)—not a typical church choir, but a bold platform for contemporary choral theater. MACC reimagines sacred repertoire as immersive, cinematic performance—free and radically accessible to the public. Under his direction, productions have ranged from Monteverdi and Bach to Ariel Ramírez and new multicultural commissions, transforming sacred space into a stage for living, urgent art.
His breakthrough work, El Oratorio Panhíspanico (2022), retells the Passion narrative through the voices of Hispanic-American immigrants near the U.S.–Mexico border. Combining Baroque-inspired structure with Latin American rhythms, the work exemplifies his mission: to create politically engaged choral theater that challenges stereotypes, amplifies marginalized voices, and invites audiences into deeper empathy.
Through these ambitious works, Alejandro Zuleta is redefining the possibilities of choral music—not as museum culture, but as living, cinematic art that provokes, educates, and transforms.
Zuleta’s music has been commissioned by CBS, the History Channel, Teatro SEA NYC, and Caracol TV Colombia. His works have appeared internationally, including Sueño with the Puerto Rico Philharmonic Orchestra, and award-winning productions such as Romance and La Gloria.