Argentine lutenist/vihuelist Ariel Abramovich and soprano María Cristina Kiehr, who form Armonía Concertada, imagine a lute and voice program drawn from existing polyphonic music, a common practice in the Renaissance. The concert features works by Juan Vásquez, Adrian Willaert, Jacques Arcadelt, and Mateo Flecha.
Experiential Orchestra, led by James Blachly, highlights over three centuries of Latin American music for chamber orchestra.
In April, Meridionalis tours to Latin America, performing choral music in Havana, Cuba, and as part of the Música Sacra festival in Quito, Ecuador.
The New Docta Festival was cofounded in 2013 by Argentine musicians Solange and Sami Merdinian with French cellist Yves Dharamraj to bring classical music to their hometown of Córdoba. This performance spotlights their work in Argentina, featuring all three cofounders, along with pianist Philip Edward Fisher.
Mexican jazz singer Magos Herrera, one of the 2016–2017 curators at Brooklyn's National Sawdust, assembles an all-star cast of musicians, including Venezuelan pianist Edward Simon’s trio alongside Argentine musician Pedro Aznar, in tribute to Argentine singer-songwriter Mercedes Sosa.
Cuban early music group Conjunto de Música Antigua Ars Longa de La Habana performs their New York debut with a program that draws on their 2013 CD “Gulumbá gulumbé. Resonancias de África en el Nuevo Mundo,” which highlights the African presence in Baroque music from the New World.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, reigning “Queen of Haitian Song” Emeline Michel—a captivating performer, versatile vocalist, and one of the premier Haitian songwriters of her generation—has her Americas Society debut.
Brazilian-Italian violinist Emmanuele Baldini, who for over a decade has been concertmaster of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, joins forces with pianist Roberto Turrin in "Americas."
Argentine singer-songwriter Cecilia Zabala and Brazilian jazz pianist Philippe Baden Powell explore their latest duo project, which fuses Zabala’s folk-inspired songwriting with Powell’s música popular brasileira sensibility.
Meridionalis presents "Luna sin mancha, Sol sin ocaso," music from the Olmeda Collection at The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, a program dedicated to polychoral music by composers including Tomás Luis de Victoria, Juan de Madrid, Mateo Romero, and Manuel de Egüés.