sentences:  Cortez enjoyed an artistic milieu in her parents' house, finding her passion and intense desire of studying music.Later on, she was admitted to the Iaşi Conservatory and, for her final three years of academic studies, she switched to Bucharest's Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory.In Iaşi, at only 17, Cortez made her debut in the alto part of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony".