Alba L. Potes

Las Américas en Concierto

English/Spanish

Squared Off, 2007
Patricia Zarate


 

Las Américas en Concierto is a series of concerts that showcase music from South America, Central America and North America of 20th and 21st centuries. The purpose of the series is to create bridges of cultural communication through music, and to bring to established and new audiences music that is rarely heard or known in the United States. The main emphasis of the series will be on contemporary music from Latin America.

Alba Potes, Artistic Director and founder
Natalia van Hissenhoven, Assistant director

Music for soprano and piano
February 11, 2012, 8:00 PM
Mannes College of Music, Concert Hall
New York

Soprano ANGELIQUE ZULUAGA opens the season with a selection of a capella and accompanied songs. Ms. Zuluaga has performed early music, oratorio, chamber and contemporary music throughout the United States and South America. She can be found frequently collaborating with composers in new works.

Angelique Zuluaga, soprano
Music by Diana Arizmendi (Venezuela), Germán Cáceres (El Salvador), Manena Contreras (Venezuela), Robert Cuckson (USA), Luis Carlos Figueroa (Colombia), Alberto Ginastera (Argentina), Mario Gomez Vigñez (Chile), Jonie Green (USA), Julie Harting, (USA), Natalia van Hissenhoven Lapacó (Colombia), Alberto Nepomuceno (Brazil), Alba Potes (Colombia-USA), Germán Toro-Perez (Colombia), Ursula Mamlok (USA), Andrés Posada (Colombia), Antonio María Valencia (Colombia), Sebastian Zubieta (Argentina)

February 2012
Philadelphia, PA
Angelique Zuluaga, soprano (same program)