The soprano Mercedes Hernández was born in Santiago de Compostela and studied singing, specialising in early music, at the Conservatory of Toulouse (France), the Musikhochschule of Trossingen (Germany) and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel-Switzerland) with teachers including Guillemette Laurens, Richard Levitt and Montserrat Figueras. She has collaborated in concerts and recordings as a soloist or ensemble singer with well-known early music groups such as La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall), Le Parlement de Musique (Martin Gester), Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), The Harp Consort (Andrew Lawrence-King), La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), among others, having performed in many of the main auditoria and festivals in Europe and America. With the lutenist Fernando Reyes she founded the early music ensemble Resonet.