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February 7, 2016, 3:00 PM

Las Américas en Concierto/Momenta Quartet
Music by Jeff Nichols (USA), Juan Camilo Hernandez (Colombia), Julian Carrillo (Mexico), Cesar Ivan Potes (Colombia), Carlos Francisco Johns-Avila (USA-Perú), Alba Potes (Colombia-USA) and Manuel M. Ponce (Mexico)

Church of St. Luke in the Fields

487 Hudson Street
New York, NY
Tickets: $15 at the door

 

Previous Events

November 17, 2015, 8:00 PM

Reflexiones
For violin, viola, cello and string chamber orchestra
Lucidity Chamberistas, Eugene Muneyoshi Takahashi, conductor
Hosted by the MUSE Sounds of Arts Festival

Secret Theater
The Long Island City Art Center

November 21, 2015, 7:00 PM

El Jardín de Tomás,
David Holzman, piano

Spectrum NYC
121 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002

September 17, 2015

Rupturas, World Premiere
Work in three movements
Nilko Andreas Guarín, Guitar
Postponed. New Date TBA

June 8, 2015

El Jardín de Tomás, European and
Austrian premiere
Irina Fuchs, piano

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kuns Wien
Vienna, Austria

May 16, 2015, 8:00 PM

Pedro Páramo, World Premiere
Cantata for narrator, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus and four instruments based on the remarkable novel Pedro Páramo by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
Work commissioned by Cantori New York

Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street
New York, NY

November 17, 2014, 7:00 PM

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Ana Cervantes, piano
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

October, 2014

Ternura de las Grullas
Diego León Gomez Perez, flute

Festival de Música Contemporánea
Valparaiso, Chile

July, 2014

Release of premiere recording of Tres Miniaturas para las Mariposas Ausentes in the CD Interacciones Musicales II
Javier Asdrubal Vinasco Guzman, clarinet, Juliana Mesa, bassoon and Andrés Gomez, piano. Medellín, Colombia

June 14, 2014, 9:00 PM

El Jardín de Tomás
David Holzman, piano

Music by Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Alba Potes, Roger Sessions, Eugene McBride, Elmar Lampson and Poul Ruders.

Admission: $15 Tickets at the door
Spectrum NYC
121 Ludlow
New York, NY 10002

February 20, 2014

Release of premiere recording of Cantares para Orquesta.
Orquesta Sinfónica EAFIT, Cecilia Espinosa, Conductor.
Medellín, Colombia

February 23, 2014, 3PM

Changing Trains in Times Square in 30 Seconds
World Premiere by Miranda Cuckson, violin and Yegor Shevtsov, piano.
Third Annual Concert of Las Américas en Concierto

The concert will include among others, six world premieres, two USA premieres and two NY premieres. The program will feature music by Diego Luzuriaga (Ecuador), Carolina Noguera (Colombia), Julio Racine (Haiti), Ursula Mamlok (USA), Leonardo Idrobo (Colombia), Natalia van Hissenhoven (Argentina), Allen Shawn (USA), Marcela Rodriguez (Mexico), Jay Fluellen (USA), Alba Potes (Colombia-USA), Erik Lundborg (USA), Camilo Mendez (Colombia), Heidi Jacob (USA), and Juan Orrego Salas (Chile).

Admission: $15 Tickets at the door

Greenwich House Music
44 Barrow Street, New York, NY

November 30, 2013, 8PM

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Ana Cervantes, piano
Canto de la Monarca/ Song of the Monarch
Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Avenida Calle 170 No. 67-51
Bogotá, Colombia

November 12, 2013, 7PM

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes New York Premiere
Ana Cervantes, piano
Canto de la Monarca/ Song of the Monarch
Works commissioned for the upcoming CD Canto de la Monarca
Saint Peter's Church
Lexington Avenue at 54th Street
The Music Room
Free Admission

November 8, 2013, 6:30 PM

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Ana Cervantes, piano
Canto de la Monarca/ Song of the Monarch
Mexican Cultural Institute
Washington, DC

October 27, 2013, 5PM

El Jardín de Tomás
David Holzman, piano
"Keyboard Kaleidoscope” a special concert of contemporary works for piano
1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY.
Information is available at The Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office
(516) 877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu.
Tickets $20

September 26, 2013

Tríptico for Colombian tiple and piano
Anderson and Forsyth Duo
International Festival Camerata 21
Veracruz, México, 9/26/2013
Music by Babbitt, Wuorinen, Matthew Greenbaum
Alba Potes, Frank Brickle and Saldana
Premiere of 4 new works for tiple and piano commissioned by the Anderson-Forsyh Duo

July 27, 2013, 7 PM

Rupturas (Movement I)
Nilko Andreas Guarín, guitar

BRAZIL FESTIVAL DO VALE DO CAFE FAZENDA PAO GRANDE
Fazenda Pao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

June 23, 2013, 1 PM

A Due
Colombian tiple and guitar. Commissioned by Bill Anderson and Oren Fader with the financial support of the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music.
World premiere presented by Vox Novus - Composer's Voice
5th Annual Guitar Celebration
Jan Hus Church, 351 E 74th St. New York, NY 10021

June 18, 2013

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Colombian premiere
Bertha Lucía Tello, piano
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

June 7, 2013

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Ana Cervantes, piano
Auditorio Francisco Garibay, San Francisco del Rincón, Mexico

May 29, 2013, 7 PM

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Ana Cervantes, piano
Teatro Cervantes, Guanajuato, Mexico

April 18, 2013, 5PM

Rupturas, Mov. II
Nilko Andreas Guarín, guitar
XI Annual Education Across the Americas Conference, Opening Ceremony
Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC
Presentado por ALAS (Association of Latin American Students at Columbia University)

March 30, 2013, 8PM

Tres Instrumentos para un Tema Obstinado
for flute/alto flute, guitar/Colombian tiple (optional) and double bass
World Premiere, League of Composers/ISCM
Tenri Cultural Center, NYC
Sue Ann Kahn, flute/alto flute
William Anderson, guitar/tiple
Lewis Paer, double bass

March 9, 2013, 8 PM

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Ana Cervantes, piano
Vuelos y Visionarios ( Flights and Visionaries), Celebrating International Women's Day
Presented by the Association Mujeres Salvando Mujeres (Women Saving Women)
Teatro Nazas, Torreón
Coahuila, Mexico

March 9, 2013, 1:30 PM

Broadcast of Tres Piezas Breves Para Piano
Martha Marchena, piano
Radio Station: Emisora Cultural de Caracas, 97.7 FM
www.laculturaldecaracas.com

Clásicos Contemporáneos de Latinoamérica/ Celebration of Women's Day
Music by Teresa Carreño (Venezuela), Marcela Rodríguez (México), Marianela Arocha (Venezuela),Mariza Rezende (Brasil), Gabriela Ortiz (México), Diana Arismendi (Venezuela), Nancy Luzco (Paraguay), Margarita Luna (República Dominicana) and Gabriela Montero (Venezuela)

March 6, 2013, 7 PM

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes
Ana Cervantes, piano
Casa del Pozo
Guanajuato, México

February 12, 2013, 6:30 PM

Rupturas, Mov. I
Nilko Andreas Guarín, guitar
CAFE LA TERRAZA 7
www.terrazacafe.org
40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373
Take the #7 train to 82nd Street

February 11, 2013, 6:00 PM

Rupturas, Mov. I
Nilko Andreas Guarín, guitar
Colombian Consulate in New York.
10E 46th St Manhattan, NY 10176

February 10, 2013, 4:00 PM

El Jardín de Tomás
NY premiere
David Holzman, piano

Concert Pre-Talk by the Colombian musicologist Dr. Luis Carlos Rodriguez
Introduction to Colombian Classical Music from the 20th Century to the Present Time
7:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes College of Music
150 West 85th St. New York City

Las Américas en Concierto
Music for piano from South America, Central America and North America of 20th and 21st Centuries.

The program will feature music by Alfredo Rugeles (Venezuela), Bill Anderson (USA), Darwin Aquino (Dominican Republic), Juan Pablo Carreño (Colombia - France), Carlos Carrillo (Puerto Rico), David Gordon (USA), Stephen Dembski (USA), Alvaro Ramirez Sierra (Colombia), Matthew Greenbaum (USA), Natalia Van Hissenhoven (Argentina - Colombia), Tania León (Cuba), Hans Federico Neuman (Colombia), Samuel Goldman (USA), Hilda Paredes (Mexico - UK), Alba Potes (Colombia - USA), Andrés Carrizo (Panama), Francisco Iovino (Colombia - USA), Eve Wiener (USA), Guillermo Uribe Holguín (Colombia) and María Cecilia Villanueva (Argentina).

December 12, 2012

Rupturas Mov. I
Nilko Andreas Guarín, guitar
The Azlo Orchestra
Amazonas 12.12.12
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City

November 11, 2012

Rupturas Mov. I
World premiere
Nilko Andreas Guarín, guitar
9th Annual Encuentro NYC- Colombian Music Festival
Le Poisson Rouge, NYC http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3776

October 19, 2012

Soliloquio
Scheduled World premiere, Martha Marchena, piano
Lecture Presentation
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
San Angelo, Texas

August 10, 2012

Traces/Homage to Bach (2010)
Sue Annn Kahn, bass flute

Evening Conversations (2011)
for two bass flutes.
Commisioned by Sue Ann Kahn and Peter Sheridan
World Premiere, National Flute Association, Convention 2012, Las Vegas

July 22, 2012

Desde el aire: Seis Instantes
Brazilian Premiere

Ana Cervantes, Piano
Third International Music Congress
Music Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, Science & Letters
Universidad de São Paulo-Ribeirão Preto

July 2012

Broadcast of early compositions
Radio station, Cámara de Comercio de Medellín, Colombia
www.camarafm.com.co, (choose Camara FM / En vivo).
Select any option to reproduce the sound.

Saturday, July 7 at 9:00 AM
Sunday, July 8 at 7:30 AM

Saturday, July 14 at 9:00 AM
Sunday, July 15 at 7:30 AM

June 30, 2012

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes (2011)
Ana Cervantes, piano
Centro Nacional de las Artes, México City, DF

June 23, 2012

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes (2011)
Fundraising for the upcoming CD
Canto de la Monarca, Mujeres de México
Ana Cervantes, piano
Casa del Pozo, Guanajuato , Mexico

February 11, 2012

Las Américas en Concierto/Composers Now
Haiku VII, for soprano and piano
Angelique Zuluaga, Soprano, José Alejandro Roca, piano
Music from South America, Central America and North America of 20th and 21st centuries
Mannes College of Music, Concert Halll, New York City

February 11/February 18, 2012

Broadcast of early compositions
Radio station, Cámara de Comercio de Medellín, Colombia
www.camarafm.com.co, (choose Camara FM / En vivo). 8 AM

November 21, 2011

El Jardín de Tomás (2007)
Chicago Premiere
David Holzman, piano
Pianoforte Chicago, Chicago, IL

November 11, 2011

Tukanos (2011) for guitar and Chamber Orchestra. World Premiere
Nilko Andreas Guarín, Guitar
Weill Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City

November 6, 2011

El Jardín de Tomás (2007)
World Premiere
David Holzman, piano
African Museum of the SMA Fathers, Tenafly, NJ

June 2, 2011

Entornos II (Glances II) (2011)
World Premiere
Edwin Ricardo Aguillón Pachón, alto sax.
Sala de Audiovisuales, Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico City

March 31, 2011

Traces /Homage to Bach (2010)
Video: Joseph Ruscitto
Cynthia Folio, bass flute
Boyer College of Music and Dance
Temple University Concert Series
Faculty Recital: Glaux

March 15, 2011

Traces /Homage to Bach (2010)
Video: Joseph Ruscitto
Cynthia Folio, bass flute
Gallery at Hi Art
New York City

March 6, 2011

Cantares para Orquesta
Orquesta Sinfónica of El Salvador
Germán Cáceres, Conductor IV Festival Internacional de
Música Contemporánea de El Salvador.
Germán Cáceres, Conductor
San Salvador, El Salvador

December 6, 2010

Entornos I for alto saxophone, Mexican Premiere
Edwin Ricardo Aguillón Pachón
Sala de Audiovisuales, Universidad National Autónoma de México (UNAM)

October 28, 2010

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes  (From the Air: Six Instants) US Premiere
Ana Cervantes
Jonsoon Performance Hall
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

October 19, 2010

Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes  (From the Air: Six Instants) World Premiere
Ana Cervantes
Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC). 
Salón del Consejo Universitario, Guanajuato, México

October 4, 2010

Dulzuras for soprano and guitar
Ensamble C G
Sala Otto de Greiff de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá

October 2 and 3, 2010

Sixth program dedicated to Alba Potes' compositions as part of the program Compositores Colombianos

Radio Station: Emisora de la Cámara de Comercio, Medellín, Colombia

Compositions: Ternura de las Grullas, Canciones Nocturnas, Apacible, Entornos y La Ciudad Visitada
Players Maria Elena Tobón, Susan Narucki con Parnassus, Apacible, Marshall Taylor, Steffanie Griffin and Blair McMillen

Dates: Saturday, October 2 at 8 AM (9 AM in the East of USA)
Sunday, October 3 at 6:30 AM (7:30 AM in the East of USA)
Website: http:// www.camarafm.com
Select Camara FM / en vivo
Media applications (media player/flash player/Itunes/ WINAMP/ REAL PLAYER/): Recommended FLASH PLAYER

September 14, 2010, Midnight

Broadcast of The City Visited
Stephanie Griffin, Viola/ Blair MacMillen, piano
Concerto Das Américas, Radio MEC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from September 14 to September 23 will be also available as a PODCAST on www.radiomec.com.br

August 27, 2010

Ternura de las Grullas
Catalina Londoño Ríos
Auditorio Fundadores de la Universidad EAFIT
Medellín, Colombia

May 28, 2010

Cantares para Orquesta, World Premiere
Orquesta Filarmónica Nacional
Germán Cáceres, conductor
XVI Festival Internacional de Música Latinoamericana
Caracas, Venezuela

May 27, 2010

Dulzuras for soprano and guitar
Ensamble C G
Caracas, Venezuela

April, 2010

Gramophone Magazine features a review of Martha Marchena’s CD Casi una Pregunta…Almost a Question Casi una respuesta… Almost an AnswerCD dedicated to Latin American composers. The composition Tres Piezas Breves para Piano is reviewed in the article.

March 20, 2010

Traces/Homage to Bach, World Premiere
Sue Ann Kahn, bass flute
Mannes College of Music, New York City

March 12, 2010

Broadcast of Tres Piezas Breves para Piano (Three Brief Pieces for Piano) Martha Marchena, piano
Alternate Routes, Texas Public Radio