Excerpt from the score for "Chaos Circles," by Natalia Domínguez Rangel

Excerpt from the score for "Chaos Circles," by Natalia Domínguez Rangel. (Image courtesy of the artist)

Music of the Americas: Spring 2025 Concerts

See the schedule for online and in-person concerts in Spring 2025, featuring jazz, early and contemporary music, and opera.

The 2024–2025 season of the MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas Concert Series continues live in New York City and online. 

Concerts include: jazz with Brazilian pianist Heloísa Fernandes and her Quartet; early music with Canadian baritone Jonathon Adams; premieres of an Americas Society commission for string orchestra by Natalia Domínguez Rangel and from composer Marcos Balter with the New York New Music Ensemble; the opera Euridice, una sombra, a tango-infused version of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice directed by Mariana Ciolfi; guitar music from Nuntempe Ensamble of Argentina; and a new collaboration with the New York Guitar Seminar dedicated to the music of Brazilian master Sérgio Assad

Additional concerts will be announced soon. 

Registration is now open for Americas Society members

Tickets for the general public will be available a month before each concert. Find more information here

You can support the Music of the Americas performances of tomorrow with a gift to Americas Society today!

En Casa and Recuerdos also continue. Stay tuned by following Music of the Americas on InstagramYouTube, and Facebook!

Heloísa Fernandes Quartet

February 4, 7 pm

The Brazilian pianist and composer returns to our stage after a decade, this time with her Quartet, which includes flutist Toninho Carrasqueira, bassist Sidiel Viera, and percussionist Ari Colares.

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Jonathon Adams

February 28, 7 pm

After a beautiful online concert recorded in our hall in 2022, the Canadian baritone will be live on our stage with Avi Stein and Sarah Cunningham. 

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JACK Quartet

April 10, 7 pm

The extraordinary quartet presents music by Marcos Balter, Eduardo Aguilar, Leilehua Lanzilotti, and Vicente Atria. 

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New York New Music Ensemble

April 21, 7 pm

The new music group, conducted by Eduardo Leandro, returns to our stage with a world premiere by Marcos Balter. Balter will also select the program for the rest of the concert. 

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Nuntempe Ensamble

April 29, 7 pm

The innovative Argentine guitar quartet will present a concert featuring new works for acoustic and electric guitars by Georg Friedrich Haas, Douglas Boyce, Agustina Crespo, Cecilia Pereyra, and Eblis Álvarez. 

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String Orchestra Premieres

April 30, 7 pm

The Hunter Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Fulmer, presents the premiere of Chaos Circle, a new Americas Society commission by Natalia Domínguez Rangel alongside the live premiere of Eduardo Aguilar's ULTRA

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New York Guitar Seminar: Sérgio Assad

June 24, 7 pm

We continue our partnership with the New York Guitar Seminar with a concert dedicated to the music of Brazilian master composer and guitarist Sérgio Assad.

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Opera: Euridice, una sombra

July 1, 7 pm

A tango version of Gluck's classic opera Orfeo ed Euridice, orchestrated for tango ensemble and set at a Buenos Aires cabaret in the 1930s. 

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Funders

The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas Concert Series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.

MetLife Foundation

The 2024-2025 series is also supported, in part, by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Augustine Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and Mid Atlantic Arts.

Howard Gilman Foundation NYC DCA New York Council on the Arts  

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