Concert Archive

The 2023 centenary of Alicia de Larrocha offers the perfect excuse to revisit the exquisitely-made 2017 documentary, Les mans d'Alicia. This is the story of one of the 20th-century's great pianists - a Spanish pianist with small hands, admired and loved around the world; a story of an unbridled passion for music which takes us on a journey to discover the woman beyond the inimitable artist that was Alicia de Larrocha. Les mans d'Alicia includes the participation of Alicia de Larrocha's daughter, Alicia Torra, as well as Claudia Torra, Kiko Torra, André Previn, David Frost, Gerald Schwartz, Gregor Benko, Hans Boon, Joaquín Achúcarro, Maria Joao Pires, Marta Zabaleta, Martha Argerich, Mònica Pagès, Miquel Lerín and Carles Horváth. Made with the support of ICEC Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

Organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) as part of Echoes Festival 2023 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Doble Banda and the Fundación Larrocha

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TICKETS Viewing is free but please consider making a donation HERE to help us cover the Festival costs

BOOKINGS Click HERE to watch from 17 Oct

MORE INFORMATION ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | echoesfestival.co.uk | doblebanda.com | aliciadelarrocha.com

'One of the most promising young artists in the genre of the classical guitar in America.' Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular

Hermelindo Ruiz, one of Puerto Rico's finest classical guitar players, makes his UK debut at Echoes Festival 2023 showcasing the rich classical heritage of his homeland, with its compelling blend of Spanish and African influences. Juxtaposing tradition and innovation, this programme explores three centuries of rarely-performed Puerto-Rican composers and the Danzas Puertorriqueñas of Ángel Mislán, Juan F. Acosta, José Ignacio Quintón and Manuel Tavárez, alongside pieces by Ernesto Cordero and works penned by Ruiz himself. Ruiz also presents the world premiere of a work written especially for him: 'Romanza' by Spanish composer, José Antonio Tolosa.

Part of the EF African Diaspora series

Hermelindo Ruiz guitar

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Organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) as part of Echoes Festival 2023 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, with the support of Pixaudio

TICKETS Ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine | £18 | £14 Concessions | £10 Members of ILAMS | Free to Friends of Echoes Festival (click HERE to join)

BOOKINGS brownpapertickets.com

MORE INFORMATION ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | echoesfestival.co.uk | pixaudio.com | hermelindoruiz.com

Calling all record collectors! If you're trying to navigate your way through the dauntingly huge world of Latin Classical music, don't fear - our resident expert is here to guide you. Join classical music addict and weekend journalist, Ray Picot, in this special EF edition of the ILAMS podcast, Journeys Through the Labyrinth. 2023 offers the opportunity to explore a host of Ibe/rican composers and artists whose lives spanned a period of over five centuries, including: Juan de Anchieta, Victoria de los Angeles, Alicia de Larrocha, Tomás Breton, Francisco Barbieri, Ramón Garay, Pau Casals and Roberto Caamaño. This discographical whistle-stop tour through 2023's key celebrations offers an amazing kaleidoscope of styles and genres with plenty of variety to enjoy. Ray will highlight the key works, as well as revealing some lesser-known hidden gems in the Latin Classical catalogue. Plus, discover the seminal interpretations whilst learning about the music in context. Whether you're new to Latin Classical, or a seasoned aficionado, this podcast has something for everyone.​

Ray Picot is Chief CD and Concert Reviewer at the Iberian & Latin American Music Society, and currently writes a popular monthly column for Echoes Magazine titled Ray's Round-Up. A regular guest speaker at recorded music societies around the country, Ray boasts an encyclopaedic knowledge of the field. Think of him as your go-to guide to Latin Classical discography!

​Ray Picot host

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Organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) as part of Echoes Festival 2023 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes

TICKETS Listening is free but please consider making a donation HERE to help us towards the event costs

BOOKINGS No booking required. Visit mixcloud.com to tune in from 9 Nov

MORE INFORMATION ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | echoesfestival.co.uk | mixcloud.com

In this unusual combination, two Brazilian virtuosos, double-bassist Gustavo Quintino and guitarist Fabricio Mattos will explore Brazilian music for double bass and guitar by living composers from many regions of the country. Interspersing solos with duets, Quintino and Mattos will journey around many soundscapes of Brazilian and South-American music, with works by composers such as Rodrigo Lima, Fabiano Borges and Sonia Ray, with special emphasis to the music of Villani-Côrtes.

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This concert is organised by The Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) as part of Echoes Festival 2023 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and New Stages Creations

TICKETS £15 | £12 Concessions | £30 2 Adults + up to 2 Children (<12) | 30% Off ILAMS Members | Free to Friends of Echoes Festival (click HERE to join)

BOOKINGS newstagescreations.com

MORE INFORMATION ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | echoesfestival.co.uk | fabriciomattos.com | newstagescreations.com

'There is much to discover: European influences in these miniatures are mixed with Latin accents, persuasively performed by Oyarzábal.' The Guardian

​Join us to celebrate the launch of Pixaudio’s new album featuring Spanish pianist, Antonio Oyarzábal: El Fin del Silencio focuses on musical creations for piano by Ibe/rican women composers arbitrarily silenced and neglected for decades. Twenty-one composers form this musical mosaic, where Oyarzábal defends their distinctive musical idiosyncrasies and proves once again his commitment to highlighting music written by women. The programme includes music by fellow Basque artist, Emiliana Zubeldía, as well as a nod to the 2023 centenary of pianist and composer Alicia de Larrocha.

Antonio Oyarzábal piano

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Organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) as part of Echoes Festival 2023 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes Manchester and Pixaudio

TICKETS £15 | £10 Concessions | £7.50 Members of ILAMS | Free to Friends of Echoes Festival (click HERE to join)

BOOKINGS brownpapertickets.com

MORE INFORMATION ilams.org.uk | manchester.cervantes.es | echoesfestival.co.uk | antonioyarzabal.com | pixaudio.com

The vibrant Barcelona Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Carlos Checa commemorates the 50th anniversary of the passing of Pau Casals, an exceptional artist who excelled not only as a cellist but also as a conductor, pedagogue and humanist. Casals’ influence on the arts and society of the last century was immense, and this concert aims to pay tribute to his musical legacy. The programme includes a dash of Casals’ own Catalan heritage, the Sardana 'Sant Martí del Canigó' followed by Goyescas' 'Intermezzo' by Enrique Granados, a close friend of Casals. To complete the first half of the concert, cellist Laura Peribañez Artero will join as soloist for a rendition of Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei. Johannes Brahms featured prominently in Casals’ concert programmes, with the cellist having extensively performed and recorded Brahms’ Double Concerto and sonatas. The Barcelona Youth Symphony Orchestra will close the programme with a performance of his First Symphony.

​Pablo Casals Sardana ‘Sant Martí del Canigó’
Enrique Granados Goyescas: 'Intermezzo'
Max Bruch Kol Nidrei
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1

Laura Peribañez Artero cello
Barcelona Youth Symphony Orchestra (JOSB)
Carlos Checa conductor

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This concert is organised in partnership with the Spanish Embassy in the UK, the Delegation of the Catalan Government in the UK & Ireland, NPro, the Cervantes Institute and The Iberian & Latin American Music Society as part of Echoes Festival 2023

TICKETS £35, £25, £20, £10 | Senior Citizens/Students: £2 off | 15% off all tickets for members of ILAMS | FREE entry to Friends of Echoes Festival (email info@ilams.org.uk to join)

BOOKINGS 020 7730 4500 | cadoganhall.com

MORE INFORMATION ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | echoesfestival.co.uk | josb.cat | lauraperibanez.com | carloscheca.es | paucasals.org

(Not an ILAMS event but one we highly recommend!)

'So beautiful!' BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour)

Known as 'the Schubert of the Pampas' by virtue of the superlative calibre, refinement and sheer volume of his vocal output, the Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino left behind a prolific catalogue of almost two hundred sumptuous and compelling art songs, making him Latin America's most outstanding and illustrious creator of lied. This programme offers a panorama of Argentina's greatest classical songs, featuring Guastavino's delightful suite, the Flores argentinas, alongside other gems in the Argentine song repertoire by Guastavino's contemporaries, including Aguirre, Gianneo, Ginastera, Gómez Carrillo, López Buchardo, Gilardi, Perceval, Piazzolla, Schiuma, Souviron and Williams. These songs weave a tantalising blend of classical song with the evocative Hispanic, Afro and Amerindian idioms of Argentine folk music, performed by one of Argentina's prima sopranos, Jaquelina Livieri, and leading British-Latinx pianist, Helen Glaisher-Hernández.

Carlos Guastavino Flores argentinas (selection)
Alberto Williams Canciones incaicas Op. 45: No. 3 'Vidalita'
Luis Gianneo Seis coplas
Alfredo Schiuma Canción de la ñusta
Julio Perceval Cantares de Cuyo
Gilardo Gilardi Canción de cuna india
Yvette Souviron Carnavalito
Alberto Ginastera Canción del beso robado
Julián Aguirre Dos canciones de cuna: 'Ea'
Carlos López Buchardo Canción de ausencia
Astor Piazzolla Aire de la zamba niña
Manuel Gómez Carillo Huainito | Bailecito cantado

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This event is organised by Instituto Cervantes, Manchester 

TICKETS £15, £10 Concessions, £7.50 ILAMS Members (please email info@ilams.org.uk for the discount code)

BOOKINGS schubertinthepampas.bpt.me

MORE INFORMATION manchester.cervantes.es

The Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival returns this July with three days packed full of concerts, masterclasses, a luthiers' expo, and a classical guitar course for all ages and leves. A mixture of free and ticketed events, please visit the Festival website for individual event programme and booking details.

TICKETS Mixture of free-entry and ticketed concerts up to £15

BOOKINGS greenwichguitarfestival.com

MORE INFORMATION info@greenwichguitarfestival.com

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'An utter joy to listen to.' Classical Guitar Magazine

The great Chilean guitarist, José Antonio Escobar, makes a long-awaited return to the UK, offering a concert of Anglo-Hispanic works at the Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival, plus an afternoon of open public masterclasses performed by guitar students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance BMus and postgraduate programmes.

José Antonio Escobar is one of Chile's most outstanding classical musicians and a leading figure on the international classical guitar stage. Training originally with Ernesto Quezada at the University of Chile, he also studied with Franz Halász, Hopkinson Smith and Eduardo Egüez. A highly versatile artist, his multifaceted career encompasses everything from Spanish Renaissance vihuela music to working with renowned contemporary composers such as Leo Brouwer, Clarice Assad and Javier Contreras, who have all written works especially for him. Known for his combination of steely virtuosity, expressive poise and innate Latin verve, he has won prizes at more than fifteen major international guitar competitions, including 1st Prize at the prestigious Tárrega Competition in Spain. He has performed in more than 30 countries in venues such as Carnegie Hall, New York, Purcell Room, London, Musikverein, Vienna, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow, Hakuju Hall, Tokyo, Japan and the National Concert Hall, Taipei. His extensive discography includes more than ten highly-acclaimed albums. José Antonio Escobar plays a Marco Sellitto guitar.

José Antonio Escobar guitar

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This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with the Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival with the kind support of Savarez strings

TICKETS Admission Free

BOOKINGS info@greenwichguitarfestival.com

MORE INFORMATION greenwichguitarfestival.com

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

‘An exceptional group of performers who make a rare and highly significant contribution to the world of baroque music.’ Louis Demetrius Alvanis

A programme of rarely-heard early Andean baroque songs and instrumental pieces, including those discovered in the C17 Codex Martínez and Codice Zuola of Peru. Sirina is the Andean goddess of music, depicted in Indigenous art as a merperson playing a guitar. These songs are about nature: flowers, mountains, the wind, birds, and the water (where Sirina lives). They express joy, reverence, care, and respect for the earth and all life on it. Followed by an optional family-friendly workshop exploring the implications of these songs for the environment and living in harmony with nature.

Anon. Kkochu to Pachamana
Anon. Hanaq Pachap Kusiquynin
Codice Martínez Companon Entre dos alamos verdes | Paxarillo fugitive
Jose Marín Tonos Humanos (selection)
Dominic McGonigle Pachamama: Regina Caeli (world premiere)

TICKETS £10 in advance | £12 on the door, under-18s £5 (on the door only if accompanied by a full-ticket-paying adult)

BOOKINGS eventbrite.com

MORE INFORMATION ephyspano@gmail.com | elparnasohyspano.com | rafaelmontero.eu | fabiofernandesguitar.com | heathstreet.org

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

'You are left with the sensation of being touched to the core by exquisitely played pieces.' Songlines

Eduardo Martín, the Grammy nominated and multiple life-time achievement award-winning Cuban guitarist and composer, joins forces with fellow award-winning, London based Cuban musician, Ahmed Dickinson - a guitarist described as a ‘true pioneer’ by Classic FM - to present The Bridge.

Eduardo Martín El sol no tiene dueño | Recordando a Piazzolla | Eclipse en la Zona 1 | Suite Habana | Sonido a contraluz | Acrílicos en el espacio | Suite Antillas

Ahmed Dickinson & Eduardo Martín guitars

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TICKETS £18.00, £12.00

BOOKINGS 020 8870 3042 | worldheartbeat.org

MORE INFORMATION tickets@worldheartbeat.org

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

'A delightfully engaging, and thought-provoking programme.' Planet Hugill Music

This concert presents joyful and colourful songs for up to 4 voices accompanied by period instruments. May is the month of Mary - several songs honour and celebrate the Virgin Mary. The concert also includes the first performance in modern times of a motet by the celebrated Spanish composer and opera singer Manuel García, who sang here in 1818 and whose works are preserved in a set of handwritten 19th-century choir books held by the church. In association with St James’ Spanish Place and celebrating the longstanding connection of both Churches with Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American communities in London.

TICKETS £20 on the door | £15 in advance

BOOKINGS 07787 975689 | elparnasohyspano.com | EPHyspano@gmail.com

MORE INFORMATION elparnasohyspano.com | warwickstreet.org.uk | katesmithmusic.com | 

veronicaandjerome.com | rafaelmontero.eu | johnsloboda.co.uk | fabiofernandesguitar.com | 

earlycello.wixsite.com/pablotejedor

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

This year's London Festival of Baroque Music (LFBM), largely performed in the round, offers several events focusing on Spain, presented under the programme ‘Beyond the Spanish Golden Age’, and featuring several of Spain's most illustrious Early Music ensembles.

Organised by St John's Smith Square in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, the Spanish National Centre for the Promotion of Music (CNDM), INAEM, Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain, Spanish Embassy London and funding from the European Union – Next Generation.eu

TICKETS £5 - £25

BOOKINGS 020 7222 1061 | www.sjss.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION boxoffice@sjss.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert but one we highly recommend!)

'A sensitive and mellifluous tenor.' Musical Opinion

This concert presents the world premiere of the original text version of the glorious and joyful Vespers for Corpus Christi by Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado (Peru 1784 - Bolivia 1856) known as the Mozart of the Andes. These Vespers, for soloists, choir and orchestra, would have been performed in the Cathedral by indigenous musicians on the feast of Corpus Christi. The work is set between two classical orchestral masterpieces of composers who influenced Tirado’s style, Haydn and Mozart.

Joseph Haydn Overture 'Armida'
Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado Vespers for Corpus Christi (world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor

TICKETS £20

BOOKINGS 077879 75689 | EPHyspano@gmail.com

MORE INFORMATION elparnasohyspano.com | ph-br.co.uk | katesmithmusic.com | veronicaandjerome.com | rafaelmontero.eu

‘One of the guitar world´s foremost players.’ Classical Guitar Magazine

It's our birthday! Join us to celebrate ILAMS' silver jubilee on the 27th April at SOAS with a recital by the illustrious classical guitarist and former ILAMS trustee, Morgan Szymanski. We mark this special occasion with a programme of great Latin American classical guitar standards from Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Joining Morgan are special guests, Lizzie Ball (violin) and Phuong Nguyen (accordion).

A featured artist on the cover of Classical Guitar Magazine, the multi-award-winning virtuoso Mexican guitarist, Morgan Szymanski, is a graduate of the RCM and Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has performed worldwide and across all the UK’s major venues and festivals, and has appeared as a soloist with many of the UK's leading orchestras. He is an alumnus of Live Music Now!, and in 2016 founded PRISMA, an artistic outreach programme aimed at taking workshops to socially disadvantaged and remote areas in Mexico. Morgan can be heard frequently on BBC Radio 3 and boasts an extensive discography, including several albums on his own label, Sarabande Records. A longstanding ambassador of Mexican repertoire, he revived a long-forgotten song penned by Frida Kahlo for performance in tandem with the 2019 V&A Museum exhibition, Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up.

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This event is organised by ILAMS, Como No and SOAS as part of La Linea Festival 2023, in celebration of ILAMS' 25th anniversary.

TICKETS £10 | £5 Concessions

BOOKINGS soas.ac.uk

MORE INFORMATION comono.co.uk

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

The Ripieno Choir presents music from the Golden Age of Portuguese Renaissance, featuring all-too-rarely-performed masterpieces from  composers who illustrate and personify the distinctive style of Lusitanian polyphony. Composers such as Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Vicente Lusitano and Estêvão Lopes Morago, each of whom led a fascinating life that inevitably shaped their individual musical voice.

Duarte Lobo Audivi vocem de caelo | Pater peccavi
Manuel Cardoso Missa pro Defunctis | Magnificat secundi toni | Sitivit anima mea
Estêvão Lopes Morago De profundis
Vicente Lusitano Regina caeli

TICKETS £18, £16 | £5 under-18s | Group discounts available | £14 ILAMS members | No booking fee. To pay by credit card, please book online.

BOOKINGS 020 8399 2714 | ripienochoir.org.uk/tickets | vox@ripienochoir.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION ripienochoir.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert but one we highly recommend!)

Two eminent guitarists come together for a fascinating Sunday afternoon concert in London of muisc from Spain and Colombia. David Eres Brun and Francisco Correa will each play half of the concert as soloist. Francisco Correa will feature music by composers with whom he is closely adsociated from his native Colombia while David Eres Brun, who is from Spain, will play a selection of his own compositions, which will include several UK and world premieres.

TICKETS £12 + 10% booking fee

BOOKINGS kingsplace.co.uk | 020 7520 1440

MORE INFORMATION franciscocorreaguitar.com | facebook.com/david.eresbrun/

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

The programme has been created to invite the audience on a musical journey from South America to Europe to explore classical composers who take Spanish features as an inspiration and use them in their compositions.

TICKETS £25 | £15 Concessions

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk

MORE INFO juliaklimek.com 

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

TICKETS £20 Adults | Free Admission to children under 12 years old | Price includes a drink reception

BOOKINGS alaf.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION claudio@durans.co.uk

'A true pioneer.' Classic FM Magazine​

Classical guitarist Ahmed Dickinson launches the new Echoes Festival 'African Diaspora' series in a collaboration with the Salix Quartet at London's Africa Centre, exploring contemporary Afro-Cuban music for guitar and strings. 

The programme presents pieces by some of Cuba's most dynamic composers, and features the UK premiere of Moforibale a Ochún by Walfrido Domínguez - a soulful work inspired by the music of Yoruba religious offerings. The programme also includes the Afro grooves of Leo Brouwer's compelling Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet, alongside the eclectic Acrílicos en el destino by Eduardo Martín, where Latin American music meets rock and Latin jazz. These effervescent syncretisms of Afro, Cuban and European influences bring some classical cool to the traditional string quartet format, with irresistible rhythms that will have you tapping your feet and swaying in your seat!​

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival's 'African Diaspora' series 2022, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes

TICKETS £30 | £25 Concessions | £20 Early Bird (book by 31 Oct) | £15 Members of ILAMS | Free to Friends of Echoes Festival (click HERE to join) | Ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine

BOOKINGS brownpapertickets.com

MORE INFORMATION echoesfestival.co.uk

Manuel de Falla first premiered his iconic ballet El amor brujo in 1915, dedicated to and starring Pastora Imperio - at the time Spain’s most  celebrated flamenco singer and dancer. In 1960, 14-year-old Rocío Jurado was discovered by Imperio and immediately hired to sing at her club El Duende. Known for her powerful voice, daring outfits and inimitable stage presence, Jurado was unparalleled in flamenco, copla and balada. In 1986, she recorded Falla’s El amor brujo. Immerse yourself in an evening of fiery drama and Andalusian charm as Sandy du Soleil and Xabier Casán pay homage to two Spanish legends.

Manuel de Falla El amor brujo
Enrique Granados ‘Quejas, ó la maja y el ruiseñor’ from Goyescas
+ A selection of cante flamenco, copla and balada romántica.

Sandy du Soleil voice
Xabier Casán piano 

TICKETS £35, £18.75

BOOKINGS 1901artsclub.com

MORE INFORMATION info@1901artsclub.com

'Virtuosic numbers and exquisite, heartfelt songs.' Classical Guitar Magazine​

Join us to discover some fresh, new and irresistible contributions to the flute-guitar repertoire from 'the land of a thousand rhythms'. Accompanied by flautist Emily Andrews, classical guitarist Francisco Correa presents music from his debut album, Música de la tierrita ('music from the homeland'), exploring music for flute and guitar by composers from his native Colombia, including several works written especially for him. These pieces mix classical and Colombian folk styles, drawing heavily on the rhythms and dances of central Colombia, such as the bambuco, the pasillo and the joropo, but using more complex harmonies than traditionally used in folk music. The resulting music is worthy of world recognition on the concert stage while remaining undeniably Colombian.

SNEAK PEEK! Video Clip HERE

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2022 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes. Francisco Correa is sponsored by Mundo Music Gear and Cifuentes Strings

TICKETS £30 | £25 Concessions | £20 Early Bird (book by 26 Oct) | £15 Members of ILAMS | Free to Friends of Echoes Festival (click HERE to join) | Ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine

BOOKINGS brownpapertickets.com

MORE INFORMATION echoesfestival.co.uk

Calling all record collectors! If you're trying to navigate your way through the dauntingly huge world of Latin Classical music, don't fear - our resident expert is here to guide you. Join classical music addict and weekend journalist, Ray Picot, in this special EF two-part edition of the ILAMS podcast, Journeys Through the Labyrinth. 

2022 offers the opportunity to explore a host of Ibe/rican composers whose lives spanned a period of over four centuries, from Early music to the Modern era, including: Ramos de Pareja, de Vivanco, Guerau, de Albero, de Hita, Hernando y Palomar, Gaztambide, Lamote de Grignon, Torres, Rodoreda, Lleo Balbastre, Campos Parsi, Turull and Pedrell. This discographical, whistle-stop tour through 2022's key celebrations throws light on many composers who were better known in their own time and have fallen into relative neglect, but who continue to deserve our attention. They represent an amazing kaleidoscope of styles and genres with plenty of variety to enjoy.​

Ray will highlight the key works, as well as revealing some lesser-known hidden gems in the Latin Classical catalogue. Plus, discover the seminal interpretations whilst learning about the music in context. Whether you're new to Latin Classical, or a seasoned aficionado, this podcast has something for everyone.​

Ray Picot host

SNEAK PEEK! Listen to previous episodes of Ray Picot's podcast, Journeys Through the Labyrinth HERE

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2022 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes

TICKETS Listening is free but please consider making a donation to help us towards production costs. Click HERE to donate now.

BOOKINGS No booking required. Visit mixcloud.com to tune in from 1 and 16 Nov

MORE INFORMATION www.echoesfestival.co.uk

'A class act.' The Sunday Times

​Clara Rodríguez is often described as an ambassador of Latin-American piano music, and she began championing women composers such as Teresa Carreño and Modesta Bor years before it became fashionable to do so. Tonight’s programme features works either penned or arranged by women, including beloved popular Latin American standards by female Latin American icons such as Violeta Parra and Chabuca Granda, alongside classical pieces such as the celebrated Danzon No. 2, and the UK premiere of Élegos by fellow Venezuelan, Diana Arismendi. As special guests, she introduces rising stars Nina Rivas on the cello, and Leonardo Muller-Rodriguez (AKA Manukapp) on electric bass.​

Clara Rodríguez piano
Nina Rivas cello
Leonardo Muller-Rodríguez electric bass (AKA Manukapp)

​PLUS Ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2022 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes

TICKETS £30 | £25 Concessions | £20 Early Bird (book by 26 Oct) | £15 Members of ILAMS | Free to Friends of Echoes Festival (click HERE to join) | Ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine

BOOKINGS ticketsource.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION echoesfestival.co.uk

Guildhall School singers embark on a musical journey to sunlit Spain to explore Zarzuela's vast riches. Under the direction of Spanish music expert Ricardo Gosalbo, this semi-staged performance features highlights of the lyric-dramatic genre by masters such as Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Pablo Sorozábal and Pablo Luna.

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2022 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, the Hispanic Music Series and Guildhall School of Music & Drama's 'Songs at Six'

TICKETS Admission free

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION echoesfestival.co.uk

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

An evening of music for guitar performed by Guildhall alumni. Spanish guitarists María Camahort and Javier Jáuregui will bring to the concert a glimpse of their latest artistic projects. The concert will be shared with Dvo Gito and George Tarlton.

TICKETS Admission free

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION gsmd.ac.uk

Nicholas Mulroy returns to Kings Place, alongside resident orchestra Aurora, for a vibrant programme ranging from Bach to Monteverdi and Purcell to Silvio Rodríguez. If the singer falls silent, so too does life, for life itself is all a song. Mercedes Sosa’s 1973 ballad Si se calla el cantor speaks to the profound importance of song in 20th-century Latin America. Singers like Sosa, along with Victor Jara in Chile and Silvio Rodríguez in Cuba, became national icons with their music and lyrics of politics, love and the human condition. This event offers a rare chance for a London audience to hear songs cherished by Latin American communities across the globe as the musical counterparts of literature by Garcia Márquez, Allende, Borges and Neruda. Curated with tenor Nicholas Mulroy as part of the Voices Unwrapped series, the programme draws connections between these Latin American works and the European Baroque songwriting in which their roots partly lie.

Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Ruth Gibson and Helene Clement violas
Aurora Orchestra

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TICKETS £19.50-£39.50

BOOKINGS kingsplace.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION nicholasmulroy.com | auroraorchestra.com

City Chamber Choir are joined by an instrumental ensemble of guitars, percussion and keyboard in a programme contrasting the austere beauty of church music written in sixteenth-century Iberia by masters of polyphony, with a heady mix of twentieth century classics from Latin America and Spain. Included are Ramírez’s charming and tuneful folk mass, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s wonderfully atmospheric settings of poems by Lorca. Completing the mix is Piazzolla’s celebrated Libertango and Ericsson’s exploration of Salve Regina, subtitled ‘to the mothers in Brazil’, which brings us full circle back to Iberia and Francisco Guerrero’s passionate setting of the same text.

TICKETS £20 | £10 Concessions (full-time students only) | Under-12s free

BOOKINGS Available on the door or online at ticketsource.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION citychamberchoir@gmail.com | citychamberchoir.org.uk

'A satisfying ensemble.' The Stage

Exiled from a country immersed in civil war, two clowns find themselves in the heart of the Parisian underworld at a time of revolution. Black, el Payaso / Black, the Clown is one of Pablo Sorozábal‘s most ambitious and wide-ranging works. An ingenious allegory of art and nationalist politics, its sharp and political edge that remains relevant today. The libretto is based on the French novel La princesse aux clowns by Jean-José Frappa. This Spanish operetta / zarzuela first premiered in Spain in 1942. This Cervantes Theatre production directed by Paula Paz marks its UK premiere.

SNEAK PEEK! Video Clip

TICKETS £20-£30

BOOKINGS boxoffice.cervantestheatre.com | 020 3633 4406 | boxoffice@cervantestheatre.com

MORE INFORMATION cervantestheatre.com

Get ready to tango! This year, we're excited to announce a special edition of Echoes Festival celebrating the centenary of the birth of Argentine composers Astor Piazzolla and Ariel Ramírez, and we're proud to be joining forces with the Argentine Embassy in the hosting of the official UK 2021 Piazzolla celebrations, alongside our permanent Festival partner, the Instituto Cervantes.

In our most ambitious edition yet, the Festival offers 22 events across November and December, with a mixture of live and online concerts for you to enjoy whatever your location or level of lockdown, including 10 events filmed in Argentina. (Our four events you can attend in person are highlighted below.) So banish those Autumn blues and let yourself be carried away to the sunnier climes of Ibe/rica as we bring you some sizzling music performed by the hottest talent in Latin classical.

TICKETS Free admission - £18 | Save ££s with a Festival Pass when you become a Friend of Echoes Festival! Click HERE for more info.

BOOKINGS echoesfestival.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION echoesfestival.co.uk

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(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

London Sinfonietta explores the music of Catalan visionary Roberto Gerhard in this sun-soaked and folkloric programme, alongside three pieces by living composers. Gerhard’s brilliantly virtuosic pieces are named for the zodiac symbols: Libra, his own sign, draws together a colourfully rhythmic folk-like melody with 12-tone influences, while Leo, written for his wife, contrasts the lion’s lazy peacefulness with awe-inspiring outbursts when roused.

Roberto Gerhard Libra | Leo
Lisa Illean Januaries
Joan Magrané Figuera Faula
Raquel García Tomás aequae

Edmon Colomer conductor
London Sinfonietta

In association with the Institut Ramon Llull

Image by London Sinfonietta

TICKETS £20, £15 | £3.50 Booking fee

BOOKINGS 020 3879 9555 | southbankcentre.co.uk | customer@southbankcentre.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION edmoncolomer.com | londonsinfonietta.org.uk | llull.cat 

The Ripieno Choir presents rarely-heard choral masterpieces from 16th-century Spanish composers who all, one way or another, are linked with Seville; some familiar, others much less so. As was the practice at the time, the voices will often be interspersed with the period instruments of His Majesty Sagbutts and Cornetts, the UK's pre-eminent early brass ensemble.

Francisco Guerrero Missa Surge Propera | Ave Virgo 
Sanctissima | Duo Seraphim
Cristóbal de Morales Magnificat septimi toni | Peccantem me quotidie
Alonso Lobo Versa est in luctum
Rodrigo de Ceballos Hortus conclusus
Juan Vásquez Agenda Defunctorum (extracts)
Juan Esquivel Ego sum panis vivus
Sebastián de Vivanco O quam suavis
Juan Navarro In passione positus

TICKETS £20, £18 | £5 under-18s | Group discounts available | £15 ILAMS members (email info@ilams.org.uk for the discount code)

BOOKINGS 020 8399 2714 | ripienochoir.org.uk/tickets | To pay by credit card, please book online

MORE INFORMATION vox@ripienochoir.org.uk | ripienochoir.org.uk | hmsc.co.uk

 (Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

On the eve of St. James's day, classical guitarist, Morgan Szymanski and soprano, Laura Mitchell take you on a captivitating journey of music through past glories of Spain to the iconic Camino de Santiago, the shrine of the apostle St. James The Great, an important centre for religous devotion and countless pilgrims. The recital ends with some 'classics' from Latin America

Doors open at 6.30pm | All seats allocated | The concert will run for 75 minutes with no interval

Laura Mitchell soprano

Presented by the Confraternity of St. James

TICKETS £18 | £15 (CSJ members)

BOOKING www.csj.org.uk/concert

MORE INFORMATION www.morganszymanski.co.uk | www.laura-mitchell.com

*An event re-scheduled from December due to COVID-19 restrictions*

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870) is widely considered the quintessential Spanish Romantic author. His poetry was crucial in the establishment of the Spanish Lied, and its impact on Spanish music has been far-reaching. The Becquerian song settings span over a century and feature breath-taking variety, offering unique insights into the evolution of Spanish art song. Ricardo Gosalbo directs this concert – the final in the current season of Guildhall's Songs at Six series – marking Bécquer's 150th anniversary with a programme of songs by celebrated composers such as Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Turina and Federico Mompou, as well as lesser-known gems by José Espí Ulrich, Enrique Fernández Arbós and José María Guervós.

Rudolph Sophus Bergh Fünf Lieder auf Gedichte von Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Op. 16
José María Franco Bordons Cuatro rimas de Bécquer
Gabriel Rodríguez Rimas de G. Becquer
Joaquín Turina Pérez Tres arias, Op. 26 | Tres poemas, Op. 81 | Rima Op. 6
Tomás Bretón y Hernández Seis poesías de Gustavo A. Bécquer
Manuel de Falla Canciones de juventud
José María Guervós Mira Rimas de Bécquer
Federico Mompou Dencausse Canciones becquerianas
Enrique Fernández Arbós Momentos musicales para canto y piano sobre rimas de G. de Bécquer, Op. 3
Amando Blanquer Ponsoda Ariettas becquerianas
Fermín María Álvarez Idealismo

Benjamin Reason baritone
Carla Satrústegui Reclusa mezzo-soprano
Inguna Morozova soprano
Jack Dolan tenor
Rachel Roper mezzo-soprano
Vlada Yakovenko soprano
Will Searle tenor
Yuting Liang piano
Ricardo Gosalbo piano
Feilin Liu piano

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2020 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and the Hispanic Song Series

TICKETS 'Admission' free | No booking required. Simply visit the streaming page at the time of the concert to watch online: gsmd.ac.uk. Stream available to view for one week.

BOOKINGS No registration required

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

We are delighted to present a wonderful opportunity to hear the internationally-acclaimed guitarist Liat Cohen in a concert she gave on 21 December 2020 at the Israeli Music Festival. Ms Cohen’s repertoire is extraordinarily expansive as evidenced by her 11 albums issued to date, alongside her ability to transcend barriers. Liat Cohen gave her first concerts at the age of 14, and went on to receive distinctions at the Paris Conservatoire, the Schola Cantorum, and was the first guitarist to be awarded the Nadia Boulanger Prize, from the Fondation de France. Since then she has built an enviable international career, and is considered to be a pioneer of the renaissance of classical guitar in contemporary creation. This concert explores Hispanic musical roots by four eminent contemporary Israeli composers and is available to stream until 31 January. The 2nd and 3rd pieces are both based on ancient Spanish songs.

Liat Cohen guitar

TICKETS Viewing is free of charge

BOOKINGS israelmusicfest.co.il/לי×�ת-כהן-גיטרה-קל×�סית

MORE INFORMATION liatcohen.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Paul Galbraith is internationally renowned as one of the foremost guitarists of our time. His revolutionary approach to guitar playing, like a cellist, has made him an instantly recognizable figure in classical music, but it is ultimately his interpretative breadth which has captivated audiences the world over. He plays the so-called ‘Brahms Guitar’, invented by him together with luthier David Rubio. This is a programme which, due to the broad stylistic survey it encompasses, could with some legitimacy be entitled ‘The Four Seasons’. Only their order has been scrambled: beginning with Bach as ‘Spring’, we progress through ‘Winter’, then ‘Summer’ and end up in ‘Autumn’, the season of the Romantic era.

Log-in to the concert from 5.30pm to 6.00pm | Live Q&A at 7.30pm

Paul Galbraith guitar

SNEAK PEEK! Video trailer

A Hennessey-Brown Music Concert Series event

TICKETS from £8.95 (plus 5% booking fee) | ILAMS Members 10% off (email info@ilams.org.uk for the discount code)

BOOKINGS hennesseybrownmusic.com

MORE INFORMATION hennesseybrownmusic.com | paul-galbraith.com

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

The London-based MÄ“la Guitar Quartet present a fascinating concert of music, from around the musical world, mixing the eclectic with the classical. Since being the International Guitar Foundation's young artists of 2015, they have gone on to release a CD of guitar chamber works of Stephen Dodgson and became the Park Lane Group young artists for the 2018/19 season. Their concert performances have drawn critical praise for their 'exalted level of perfection' and playing that 'shines, shimmers with sparkling clarity'. Music from the Quartet's 2018 self-issued album, Pluck, Strum and Hammer, will be included in this, their first concert of 2021. 

The Zoom Room will open at 5.30pm for a pre-concert interview with audience questions, so blow away the lockdown blues and discover some of the most extraordinary music written and arranged for guitar, in this live-streamed concert.

MÄ“la Guitar Quartet

SNEAK PEEK! Video Trailer

Presented by Hennessey Brown Music

TICKETS from £8.95 (plus 5% booking fee)

BOOKINGS hennesseybrownmusic.com

MORE INFORMATION melagq.com

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

This unique combination of music from 17th-century Europe and 20th-century Latin America explores giants of the art of songwriting, separated by time and space. It features music of gorgeous intimacy, and is ultimately a tribute to the idea that what unites things is infinitely more interesting than what separates them.

Henry Purcell Evening Hymn | In the Black, Dismal Dungeon of Despair
Barbara Strozzi Amor dormiglione
José Marín Sepan todos que muero | Ojos pues me desdeñáis
Juan Hidalgo Esperar, sentir, morir
Claudio Monteverdi Tempro la cetra | Si dolce’l tormento
Silvio Rodríguez La gaviota | Unicornio
Joan Manuel Serrat Mediterráneo
Víctor Jara Te recuerdo Amanda

Part of Baroque at the Edge Festival

TICKETS £10

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION baroqueattheedge.co.uk

'A voice blazing with conviction.' The Guardian

In this illustrated talk accompanying a concert at LSO St Luke's later in the day, singer and hispanicist Nicholas Mulroy investigates the cultural and political background to the giants of 1960s Latin-American song-writing, and demonstrates their musical affinities with the great song composers of 17th-century Europe. A live Zoom event concluding with a Q&A session.

Organised in collaboration with the Iberian & Latin American Music Society and the Instituto Cervantes, this event is part of the Baroque at the Edge festival

TICKETS £5.00 | Booking fee applies

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

This live/online concert will showcase 17th-century Bolivian Christmas songs called negrillas which demonstrate the cultural assimilation of black Africans and black music into Spanish and Native American society. These songs had African origins, but were enjoyed and sung by all sections of society. They involve voices, instruments, and percussion. Although they come from another age and another continent, negrillas are accessible to anyone, and tell a story of ethnic integration and crossover which can inspire us today. The performers will be drawn from the three ethnicities: black, native American, and white. The event includes a workshop (observing Covid-19 restrictions) where we will teach you one of the negrillas. Bring hand-held home-made percussion or just use your hands to join in, whether at home or in the hall. Ticket holders resident in the Borough of Islington can also sign up for a zoom workshop led by Rafael Montero, where they can find out more about the songs, and practise joining in.

El Parnaso Hyspano Baroque music ensemble

SNEAK PEEK! Video clip

Presented by Octopus Communities

TICKETS Suggested donation £5

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk | Users of the Octopus Community Centres will be given priority to attend the concert in person, numbers limited by Covid-19 restrictions in force at the time. Further information will follow by email after your booking.

MORE INFORMATION elparnasohyspano.com

Banish those Autumn blues and let yourself be carried away to the sunnier climes of Iberia and Latin America at Echoes Festival 2020, where we bring you some sizzling music performed by the hottest talent in Latin classical. Now in its 5th year, the Festival brings unique classical Iberican programming to some of London's most prestigious venues, whilst providing a platform to some of the most authentic and illustrious voices within Latin classical music today.

This year, the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic have inevitably forced us to postpone some of our plans to 2021, but we are excited to be holding a special mini-edition of the Festival with a mixture of live and online content for you to enjoy, whatever your level of lockdown. We're delighted to be celebrating the 500th birthday of the Great Spanish Renaissance composer, Pedro Guerrero, with a concert by the Lacock Scholars on the 7th November, as well as launching a new live edition of our podcast series, Journeys Through the Labyrinth with presenter Ray Picot on 29th Oct. Echoes Festival 2020 has something for everyone: whether you're into Early music or contemporary composers; choral repertoire or guitar concerts; whether you're interested in exploring the more serious reaches of the repertoire or you want to indulge your lighter side...this Festival is for you. We can't wait to see you there!

Organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) and the Instituto Cervantes

TICKETS Free-£18

BOOKINGS echoesfestival.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION info@ilams.org.uk

One of Spain's leading composers of the 16th century was Francisco Guerrero (1528 – 1599), now well-known and loved among modern audiences on a par with Tomás Luis de Victoria. Less well-known, however, is the legacy of his elder brother, Pedro (born c.1520): an esteemed musician in his own right with an international career spent partly working in Rome; and ostensibly also one of Francisco's first teachers. The Guerrero family lived and worked together in Seville and Osuna, and in both places were accompanied by the younger Alonso Lobo (1555 - 1617), who eventually became Francisco's assistant at Seville cathedral toward the end of Francisco's life.

We celebrate this quincentenary year of Pedro Guerrero's birth with a sumptuous programme of works by these three men who knew one another well, obviously influenced one another, and who were likely close personal friends. Join us for this contemplative concert of emollient a cappella Spanish Renaissance choral music performed by the UK's premier amateur consort, The Lacock Scholars. Conducted by Greg Skidmore, one of the country's leading specialist performers of Renaissance polyphony, the concert will be presented in the seamless, characteristic Lacock Scholars style, allowing you to approach the music on your own terms, set against the magnificent architecture, and amidst the beautiful acoustics, of Pimlico's St Gabriel's Church.

Lacock Scholars voices
Greg Skidmore conductor

SNEAK PEEK! Listen to the Lacock Scholars' latest album HERE

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2020 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes

*Please do not attend this event in person; viewing is by live-stream only*

TICKETS £18 | £14 Concessions | £10 Members of ILAMS | FREE to Friends of Echoes Festival (email us at info@ilams.org.uk to join the scheme)

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 (lines open 24/7) | brownpapertickets.com | Once you have booked your ticket you will receive the live-stream link by email the day before the concert

'This is 100% colossal. Amazing performance by Manu Brazo.' Classic FM

Spanish saxophonist, Manu Brazo, brings a show-stopping programme of Spanish and Latin favourites to St James's Piccadilly, featuring home-grown classics, Pequeña czarda, by Pedro Iturralde and a transcription of Manuel de Falla's evergreen Siete canciones populares españolas​ alongside Borne's dazzling paraphrase of Bizet's Carmen, and a foray into the up-beat music of Brazil via Darius Milhaud's toe-tapping Scaramouche. Prepare to be uplifted and entertained!

Manu Brazo is quickly making a name for himself as one of Spain's most exciting rising classical stars, acknowledged as a versatile artist for his natural ability to communicate a fresh and eclectic variety of styles to his audience, bolstered by a unique sound and seemingly effortless virtuosity. He has performed internationally and across some of the UK's most prestigious festivals and venues, including the Royal Opera House, Kings Place and St Martin-in-the Fields, as well as recently opening for Sir Cliff Richard at the Greenwich Music Time Festival. His debut album, Solo Dialogue, was released in June and has already been featured on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM to critical acclaim. Manu Brazo is accompanied by prize-winning Indonesian pianist and RCM graduate, Prajna Indrawati.

Bizet/Borne A Carmen Fantasy
Manuel de Falla Siete canciones populares españolas​
Darius Milhaud Scaramouche
Pedro Iturralde Pequeña czarda

Manu Brazo saxophone
Pajna Indrawati piano

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2020 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and St James's Piccadilly

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS Booking required; Seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis at eventbrite.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk | ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | echoesfestival.co.uk | manubrazo.com

Calling all record collectors! If you're trying to navigate your way through the dauntingly huge world of Latin Classical music, don't fear - our resident expert is here to guide you. Join classical music addict and weekend journalist, Ray Picot, in a special live edition of his new ILAMS podcast, Journeys Through the Labyrinth, for an informal introduction to Albéniz' seminal piano piece, Iberia. Ray will highlight the key components of the work's antecedents, as well as revealing some lesser-known hidden gems in the composer's catalogue. Discover the seminal interpretations whilst learning about the music in context. Whether you're new to Albéniz, or a seasoned aficionado, this event has something for everyone.
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Isaac Albéniz was one of a triumvirate of Spanish composers, along with Enrique Granados and Manuel de Falla, to achieve international acclaim during the early years of the 20th century, as part of a movement that led to a new renaissance in Spanish music. His untimely death deprived Spanish music of one of its greatest composers shortly after the completion of his masterpiece, Iberia: four books of ‘impressions’ for piano, written between 1905 and 1908. This work has become a staple of the international repertoire through successive generations of performers, alongside the earlier music he wrote of popular Spanish character, though this is stylistically light years away from Iberia. The transformation of Albéniz' music was achieved during the 1890s through his focus on music for the stage, the importance of which is only now being acknowledged. Through new and classic recordings, this podcast explores the rich legacy of the music Albéniz wrote at this time which culminated in Iberia.
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Ray Picot is Chief CD and Concert Reviewer at the Iberian & Latin American Music Society, and currently writes a popular monthly column for Echoes Magazine titled Ray's Round-Up. A regular guest speaker at recorded music societies around the country, Ray boasts an encyclopaedic knowledge of the field. Think of him as your go-to guide to Latin Classical discography!

Ray Picot host

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2020 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes

TICKETS 'Admission' free; visit mixcloud.com/ilams/ to join the live podcast

Online donations welcome: click HERE to contribute

BOOKINGS No registration required 

MORE INFORMATION echoesfestival.co.uk | ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es

'Magical playing.' Classical Guitar Magazine

Johan Löfving, one of the most outstanding classical guitarists of the new generation, performs a selection of dazzling guitar works spanning four centuries from all three corners of the Latin world by composers from Spain, Mexico and Argentina. The programme will be presented on Baroque and Classical guitars.

Since becoming a prize-winner in the prestigious London International Guitar Competition, Swedish Johan Löfving has distinguished himself as both guitar and theorbo player both in the UK and abroad, making appearances at some of the world's finest concert halls such as Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, The Sage Gateshead, Wiener Saal, and Konzertsaal der Wiener Sängerknaben MuTh. Additionally, he has appeared in major festivals including Brighton Early Music Festival, London Festival of Baroque Music, Bath Guitar Festival, Saxå Chamber Music Festival and Carinthischer Sommer, as well as numerous appearances on BBC Radio 3. His debut album A Salon Opera together with flautist Yu-Wei Hu (Flauguissimo Duo) was released on Resonus Classics 2019, followed by his solo debut Fandango! in 2020. He has also worked with baritone Thomas Guthrie, tenor Rob Murray, Barokksolistene and pianist David Owen Norris, who invited him to take part in the 'Playlist Series' on BBC Radio 4. Johan graduated with First Class Honours from the RCM in London where he studied guitar with Gary Ryan and theorbo with Jakob Lindberg, and where he was awarded both the Guitar Prize and the Hilda Anderson Dean Prize. Later, he completed his studies with Prof. Robert Wolff and Prof. Hans Brüderl at the Salzburg Mozarteum, supported by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music.

Johan Löfving guitar

SNEAK PEEK! Video clip of Johan Löfving performing Tarantelle by Mertz

Co-produced by ILAMS and the Instituto Cervantes as part of Echoes Festival 2020 in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the United Kingdom, with the support of the Cervantes Theatre, London

TICKETS 'Admission' free; visit youtube.com/user/ICLondres to join the livestream

BOOKINGS No registation required

MORE INFORMATION johanlofving.com | echoesfestival.co.uk | ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | spainculturescience.co.uk | cervantestheatre.com

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado (1784-1856) was one of Latin America’s most successful and prolific composers of the early 19th century. His work spanned the critical period of the establishment of independent Latin American states in the period after the end of the Spanish Empire. Known at the time as 'El sinfonista de los andes', he learned his craft during colonial years, but was able to contribute to the body of early post-colonial repertoire. In the 20th century, his work fell from view. It is only now, with the greater interest in postcolonial studies and the rehabilitation of indigenous musics, that his work has begun to receive scholarly and artistic attention. His work exemplifies the cosmopolitanism and cultural mobility that was an important strand in the establishment of a distinct Latin American cultural life. At the peak of his career, he occupied a prestigious position as director of music at Sucre Cathedral, the most important cultural and religious city of the newly created state of Bolivia. Pedro Ximénez exemplifies the cultural syncretism that has been a prevailing feature of Latin American music at many historical junctures. At a time when the impetus to de-privilege the European classical canon grows ever stronger, Ximénez is a neglected composer of the highest quality whose works deserve wider contemporary exposure and integration into the corpus of established art songs. 

This online seminar will be the launch event for a project at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama to make the first professional recordings, public concerts, and performing edition of a selection of Tirado’s songs from the several hundred manuscripts held in the National Library of Bolivia, Sucre. In addition to introducing the project, it will present first example recordings of two contrasting songs. With the participation of: 

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Praised for her 'warm mezzo' (The Telegraph) and 'velvet-voice' (Daily Telegraph), British-Spanish mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons recently made critically-acclaimed house and role debuts at the Royal Opera House. Fontanals-Simmons trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, where she was awarded the Gold Medal, and was a Jerwood Artist at Glyndebourne for the 2015/16 season. She appears regularly on the concert platform and in recitals, and is a keen exponent of contemporary music.

Judith Weir The Voice of Desire
Andrew Norman Lullaby
Claude Debussy Chanson de Bilitis
Lord Berners Trois chansons
Joaquin Turina Poema en forma de canciones

PLG Young Artist series

'My dear friend Braque: I am using your latest papery and powdery procedures. I am in the process of imagining a guitar and I am using a bit of dust against our horrible canvas.' Pablo Picasso, 9th October 1912, Paris

The guitar is a pervasive and potent leitmotif in the work of Pablo Picasso, and one that has come to stand as a cipher of modernity in the Spanish visual arts more widely. In 1920, Manuel de Falla became the first composer to invert this dialectic and propel the classical guitar into the Modernist age with the writing of his seminal work, Pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy. With its own brand of musical Cubism, this piece proposed a radically new language for the classical guitar, which inspired subsequent generations of composers to produce a rich legacy of 20th-century repertoire for the instrument.

In tandem with the Royal Academy of Art’s new exhibition, Picasso and Paper, Spanish guitarist and academic, Samuel Diz, makes his London debut with a bespoke programme inspired by the superlative Spanish artist, entitled Picasso: Guitar Maker. Exploring the Modernist works of several of Picasso’s contemporaries, Diz will present music by Mompou, García Ascot, Bacarisse, García Lorca and, of course, Falla. The programme also features a piece written in the UK by Robert Gerhard, a Catalan composer who lived out his exile from the Franco regime in Cambridge: his incidental music for the BBC's 1964 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, For Whom The Bell Tolls (a tale based on events in the Spanish Civil War).

Samuel Diz is a recipient of the Critics' Choice El Primer Palau Prize at the Palau de la Música in Catalonia. Specialising in the Spanish guitar repertoire of the early 20th century, and ‘The Generation of ‘27’ in particular, he was the first artist to record the original guitar music of Federico García Lorca; for his album Memoria de la melancolía he was privileged to be able to perform on Lorca’s own instrument. Recent appearances include an engagement at the birthplace of Pablo Picasso in Málaga.

Samuel Diz classical guitar

SNEAK PEEK! Video Clip

This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts and the Instituto Cevantes with the kind support of the Fundació Frederic Mompou and AGADIC – Xacobeo 21 (Xunta de Galicia), as part of the Guitarrísimo series

Image by: Xosé Durán

TICKETS Admission free; ticket also includes free admission to the exhibition

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk (Open in March)

MORE INFORMATION samueldiz.com | royalacademy.org.uk | ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es

‘A most enjoyable evening of music making enjoyed by a large audience.’ Tickhill Music Society

Classical guitarisr, Francisco Correa, makes his ILAMS debut with the London launch of his new album Música de la Tierrita - a collection of solo guitar compositions by exciting young Colombian composers, including several special commissions and world premieres. This prize-winning Colombian guitarist has appeared on national TV and radio, performed on 3 continents, and recently performed the famous Rodrigo Aranjuez concerto at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Isaac Albéniz Mallorca Op. 202 (tr. Francisco Correa)
Daniel Saboya Suite colombiana No. 1
Agustín Barrios Mangoré Julia Florida | Vals Op. 8, No. 4
Lucas Saboya Suite Ernestina

Francisco Correa guitar

SNEAK PEEK! Album Teaser Trailer

This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with St James's Piccadilly with the kind support of AM Records

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS None required; first-come, first-served

MORE INFORMATION franciscocorreaguitar.com | ilams.org.uk | sjp.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

The Spanish pianist Maria Garzon started her musical education at the Madrid Conservatorio Superior de Musica. At 17 she was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian government to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg for one year, and immediately after went to Germany (Cologne) and studied there at the Musikhochschule before moving to London where she now lives. Maria Garzon has performed all over the world in prestigious venues and also performs as a chamber musician. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Member of ILAMS. Her recording, Spanish Piano Music (1992) was awarded Best CD of the Year by the British Retailers' Association. Consequently she was commissioned by the Rodrigo family to record his piano works as a celebration of Rodrigo's 95th birthday, the notes to that recording written by the composer himself. Maria Garzon has also recorded the piano works by Elgar and Viktor Ullman, and her documentary, Viktor Ullman: biography of a recording won First Prize for Best Documentary and the Audience Prize at the International Documentary Festival in Thessaloniki in 2016. Her second volume of Piano Music of Spain will be released this coming spring on the Heritage label.

Sunday Afternoon Concert Series

TICKETS £12 Adults | £8 Seniors | £5 Children & Students

BOOKINGS 020 7435 1911 

MORE INFORMATION emmanuelnw6.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Campbell Diamond is an international award-winning classical guitarist based in Cologne, Germany, and is currently studying privately with Judicaël Perroy in Paris. Diamond has recently finished his Bachelor degree (First Class Hons) with Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Previously, he studied as a student of Timothy Kain and Minh Le Hoang at the ANU School of Music in Canberra, Australia. He began studying the classical guitar at the late age of 17, and is now regarded as one of the leading guitarists of the younger generation. He has won over 30 prizes in international competitions. In 2018, Diamond released his first solo recording. Programme includes:

Campbell Diamond guitar

TICKETS £15 + £1.76 fee | £10 + £1.37 fee, full-time students

BOOKINGS www.eventbrite.com.au

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk | campbelldiamondguitar.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!).

A brilliant cellist from an early age, Jacqueline Phillips studied with legendary teachers including William Pleeth, Amaryllis Fleming, Aldo Perisot and Joan Dickson, and has emerged as an extraordinarily versatile and well-rounded musician; undoubtedly one of the finest British cellists of her generation, with a career that has taken her round the world, including a trip to Italy to win the Rovere d’Oro International Competition in Genoa. She has also founded her own group, known as the Brook Ensemble.

Cellissimo series

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; first-come-first-served

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

Vicky Yuan-Labarre and João Lima are an enterprising flute and guitar duo, who have been performing widely, with a particularly speciality of music from Brazil. In this concert they bring together an attractive blend of popular Brazilian music, and some piquant classical works from France, Spain and Argentina.

Claude Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin
Pixinguinha Um a Zero | Oscarina
Dante Santoro Harmonia Selvagem
Tom Jobim Por toda a minha Vida | Desafinado | Chega de Saudade
Manuel de Falla  ‘La Vida Breve’ - Danse Espagnole
Celso Machado Pé de Moleque & Paçoca
Astor Piazzolla Libertango

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION stclementdanesraf.org

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

The Argentine pianist, Julieta Iglesias, who now lives in London, performs internationally and her large repertoire ecompasses tango. Julieta has performed with the London Tango Orchestra, the Trio Escualo, the Trio Abril as well as solo, and recently recorded a piano album entitled Astor exploring the music of the master of contemporary tango, Astor Piazzolla.

Alberto Ginastera  Malambo
Frédéric Chopin Scherzo No.1 in B minor Op.20 |  Scherzo No.2 in B flat major Op.31 | Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor Op.39

Julieta Iglesias piano

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION saintolave.com | julietaiglesias.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Fábio Fernandes began classical guitar lessons at the age of 11 at the Academia de Música de Viana do Castelo with Francisco Gomes. Since then Fábio fell in love with the world of the classical guitar and performance leading him to move to London where he completed his BMus (Hons) at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2018 where he is now studying for his Master's in Classical Guitar Performance. Fernandes has attended masterclasses with many of the world’s most distinguished guitarists. He has obtained 2nd and 3rd Prizes in several national and international competitions in Portugal, and has performed many solo, ensemble and choral concerts all around Portugal and in England, Czech Republic and Poland.

Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for lute in D major, RV 93
Carlos Seixas Concerto for harpsichord in A major (arr. Emilio Pujol)
Joaquin Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez

Guildhall School of Music & Drama series

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk | fabiofernandesguitar.com 

 (Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

In his UK debut, Chilean pianist Marcelo Danton has prepared an exciting programme which combines well-known piano pieces by Chopin and Beethoven with rarely heard pieces by composers from his country.
Marcelo is a performer who is in constant demand both as soloist and accompanist. He has performed in Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Germany.

Pedro Humberto Allende  5 Tonadas
Marcos Stuardo  Pequeña Siesta
Enrique Soro  Andante Apassionato
Frédéric Chopin  Three Waltzes Op.70 | Nocturne Op.72 No.1 | Scherzo Op.31 No.2
Ludwig van Beethoven  Sonata No.21, Op.53 "Waldstein"

Marcelo Danton piano

TICKETS Admission free

BOOKINGS www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nocturnes-waltzes-sonatas-and-more-marcelo-danton-in-concert-tickets-88855885345 |

MORE INFORMATION kcl.ac.uk 

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Born in Madrid in 1991 into a family of musicians, Pablo Ferrández joined the prestigious Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía when he was 13 to study with Natalia Shakhovskaya. After that, he completed his studies at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and went on to become a prizewinner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, V Paulo International Cello Competition and ICMA 2016 Young Artist ofthe Year. Praised for his authenticity and hailed by the critics as 'one of the top cellists' (Rémy Louis, Diapason Magazine), the 26-year-old  continues to build a brilliant career through collaborations with international renowned artists and leading world orchestras. Pablo Ferrández plays the Stradivarius 'Lord Aylesford' (1696) thanks to the Nippon Music Foundation. The aim of the ECHO Rising Stars series is to find young European musicians who possess special qualities, and on the basis of his recent appearances with the London Philharmonic and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Ferrández has insight to spare. In this programme he includes a specially-commissioned work by the doyen of Spanish film composers, Antón García Abril.

TICKETS £12

BOOKINGS barbican.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION pabloferrrandez.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

These 2019 Gramophone Award winners (for Cardosa's Requiem) were established in 2009 at the Fundação Cupertino de Miranda in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. Cupertinos (initially called Cappella Musical Cupertino de Miranda) have established themselves as true ambassadors of Portuguese polyphony. Their work recovering, studying and disseminating the vast and still largely undiscovered heritage of Portuguese music from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries sees the group perform around twenty concerts per year. Cupertinos are continually discovering and performing unpublished works, and to date they have brought around eighty such pieces to light. The group maintains strong partnerships with several of the main historical buildings of Portugal, which guarantees a symbiosis both in acoustic and historical terms between the repertoire and the venues. They also have a privileged connection with the University of Coimbra, which houses one of the richest repositories of Renaissance music anywhere in the world. Their performance approach makes use of exhaustive study that allows an increasingly profound knowledge of and familiarity with the style and the works. Several of these unpublished works have been transcribed from the original sources, with the active participation of members of Cupertinos under the guidance of their director, Luís Toscano, and the musicologist José Abreu. Their performances have a fresh sound and an untamed character, and their interpretations showcase Iberian passion and a distinctly Portuguese essence. It is these qualities in concert that have earned the group the epithet ‘the national team of Portuguese polyphony’. In this concert Cupertinos explore the richness of 16th and 17th century Portuguese polyphony with a panoramic view of the poignant liturgies of Lent and of the Dead.

Pedro de Cristo Lamentationes Jheremie prophetæ 1: 1-5 | Parce mihi Domine
Manuel Mendes Missa de Quadragesima
Estêvão de Brito Assumpsit Jesus
Manuel Cardoso Lamentationes 1: 6–7 | Sitivit anima mea
Estêvão Lopes Morago De profundis
Bartolomeo Trosylho Circumdederunt me
Filipe de Magalhães Commissa mea
Francisco António de Almeida Lamentationes 2: 8-11

TICKETS £36 | £32 | £29 | £24 | £19

BOOKINGS cadoganhall.com

MORE INFORMATION cupertino.pt

(Not an ILAMS concert but one we highly recommend!)

Chilean pianist, Danor Quinteros, has received critical acclaim and numerous national and international awards. Praised for his artistic sensitivity and dexterity, he has appeared in numerous halls and venues such as Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Tonhalle Zürich, Klavierfestival-Ruhr, Banff Centre and the Romanian Atheneum. He rendered a memorable performance of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra during the final of the Enescu Competition 2016 in Bucharest and was awarded 3rd Prize. In the same year, he won the prize for Best Accompanist in the Violin category. Danor Quinteros has also been a prizewinner in many other piano competitions around the world including the Ile de France Piano Competition, Santa Cecilia Piano Competition in Porto, Académie de Musique Lausanne, Dr Luis Sigall Competition and the Claudio Arrau International Competition. His wide repertoire ranges from Scarlatti and Clementi to Ligeti and Unsuk Chin. Additionally, he has a strong passion for undeservedly less-performed composers such as Enescu, Medtner, Bowen and Soro, who often appear on his recital programmes. Recently, Danor Quinteros released an EP with works by Bartók, Medtner and Ligeti in Canada and has on his agenda future releases for the KNS label. He is currently undertaking international engagements presenting this programme of music by Chilean composers, written over the past 100 years.

Presented by the International Society for Chilean Music

TICKETS Admission free

(Not an ILAMS concert but one we highly recommend!)

Tamara Radjenovic, the young Montenegrin soprano now resident in the United Kingdom, graduated in Voice Performance from the Royal College of Music in London, having been awarded a Scholarship to do her Master’s studies at the same college. Tamara has performed nationally and internationally, at festivals, masterclasses and competitions in Spain, Italy, USA, Austria, Germany, England, Romania, Slovenia, Mauritius, Netherlands, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. Highlights of her 2019 concerts include a Carnegie Hall solo recital following her successful debut there in September 2018. Tamara also performed with British acclaimed pianist Oliver Poole at his World Series concert at the Opus Theatre in Hastings, England in October 2019.

The pianist, Wai-Yin Lee, was born in Hong Kong where she obtained her undergraduate degree in Piano from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). In 2000, she was awarded a two-year full scholarship from the Royal College of Music in London to undertake postgraduate study in piano performance, and then went on to study her Master's degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Following this Wai-Yin pursued studies as a répétiteur on a City Educational Scholarship. She then was awarded a fellowship at the GSMD in 2007, and in the same year was also invited to join the prestigious National Opera Studio as a part-time répétiteur trainee. She is now currently working at the Royal College of Music as a répétiteur for the Opera School, and also as an official accompanist for the RCM entrance exams.

Giacomo Puccini La Boheme (Selection)
Joaquin Rodrigo Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Fernando Obradors Del cabello mas sutil | El vito
Ruperto Chapí Las hijas del Zebedeo

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Roman Rabinovich is an Israeli pianist, and the winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. He has performed in the United States, Europe, and Israel at places such as Gewandhaus, Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Rabinovich is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Seymour Lipkin. This concert is Rabinovich’s homage to Picasso and takes in Spain, Russian ballet and the world of clowns. He writes, ‘it features the music of two composers associated with Spain, the Baroque master Zipoli and Picasso's Spanish contemporary, Granados. Through Debussy's tribute to Spain with La soirée dans Grenade and the sombre blues from Gershwin's Preludes, I conclude with works by Satie and Stravinsky, whom Picasso encountered through Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and my own composition which explores the world of a clown, a central theme in the Rose period.’

Roman Rabinovich piano

TICKETS £10 | £18 | £25 | £35 | £45

BOOKINGS southbankcentre.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION romanrabinovich.net

(Not ILAMS events, but one we highly recommend!)

Back in 2007 Catrin Finch met with the six-piece Colombian joropo band Cimarrón and embarked on an exhilarating tour of Wales, following which a live album was released entitled Yn Byw. The collaboration was repeated in 2009 and 2010. Ten years later, Catrin and Cimarrón meet again to tour the UK. Catrin Finch is one of the world’s leading harp players, whose career has featured both solo performances with the world’s top orchestras, and collaborations with some of the leading world music artists, including Toumani Diabate and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita. The 6-piece Grammy-nominated Cimarrón perform joropo dance music from the cattle-rearing plains of the Orinoco, rooted in a deep tradition defined by the mestizo mixed heritage of African, Spanish and indigenous cultures. Led by harpist and composer Carlos Cuco Rojas, Cimarrón make wild, untamed music that preserves the spirit of freedom found in one of the world’s most untouched regions. Fast-paced and powerful, this is music with impetuous singing, amazing stomp dancing and fierce instrumental virtuosity of strings and percussion.

However, it is with sadness that we have learned of the sudden passing of Carlos Cuco Rojas. On her website, Catrin Finch, has stated their intention to continue with the tour, as a mark of respect. Updated 20/1/20

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

‘Joined’ is a unique collaboration between popular and classical artists conceived and led by celebrated pianist Cesar Camargo Mariano. Integrating bossa-jazz and classical styles, performed by musicians established and erudite in both genres, the collaboration received critical acclaim earning them a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Instrumental Album’ (Latin Grammy, 2016). Cesar Camargo Mariano brings his Brazilian quartet (piano, bass, drums and guitar) and is accompanied by outstanding classical musicians and soloists from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra including Walter Seyfarth (clarinet), Rüdiger Liebermann (violin) and Egor Egorkin (flute).

Cesar Camargo Mariano Preludio | Choro dos reis | Joined | À Benoit | 80° Fahrenheit
M. Heinhorn/D. Ferreira/Bebeto Tristeza de nós dois
V. de Moraes/C. Buarque/Garato Gente humilde
Ari Barroso/L. de Castro Na batucada da vida

TICKETS £60 | £40 | £25 | £15

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Heitor Villa-Lobos was one of the first composers to emerge from Latin America in the last century to develop a national artistic conscience in his native Brazil, and go on to receive international recognition. The guitar was the second instrument he learnt and using the knowledge he gained from his travels, he wrote a small but important collection of music for this instrument, alongside a concerto, which remain popular today. This concert brings together in a single programe the complete works for solo guitar by Villa-Lobos, played by the three guitarists: Fabricio Mattos, Vitor Noah and Plinio Fernandes, who bring a wealth of experience to this repertoire.

Heitor Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 1 | Suite populaire brésilienne | 5 Preludes | 12 Études

Presented by Poliphonia, Institute of Latin American Studies and Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London

TICKETS In advance: £18, £8 | On the door: £20, £10

BOOKINGS poliphonia.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION poliphonia.co.uk

Greek pianist and Latin specialist, Nikos Stavlas, makes his ILAMS debut performing solo works by Greek and Argentinian composers of the 20th and the 21st centuries based on traditional dances.

Nikos Stavlas piano

SNEAK PEEK! Video clip

Organised in collaboration with St Martin-in-the-Fields

TICKETS Admission free; voluntary exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION nikosstavlas.com | stmartin-in-the-fields.org

Chiara D'Odorico is considered one of the most internationally-acknowledged Paraguayan pianists. She started studying at the Clave de Sol Conservatory of Music in Asuncion, Paraguay, where she graduated, guided by her mother, the pianist Miriam D’Odorico. She received her Bachelor's degree from the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2014, she received her Master's degree from the Superior Music School of Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona, Spain, with a scholarship granted by the National Fund of Culture and Arts of Paraguay, where she studied with the maestros Pierre Réach and Denis Lossev. She has received various awards including Ambassador of Paraguayan Tourism, Artifices of Change Award: Women who Innovate and Create, Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Paraguay 2018, National Youth Award presented by the President of the Republic, and Tribute Award to the Paraguayan Women of Today. Her first album, Music of My Land is presented for the first time in London in this recital, as part of her 2019 European Tour. The album was born with the aim of disseminating, valuing and publicising academic Paraguayan music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Many of the works are recorded by her for the first time, including music from new generations.

Chiara D'Ororico piano

Presented by the UK Embassy of the Republic of Paraguay

TICKETS Free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required

MORE INFORMATION 020 7262 9976 | stjamespaddington.org.uk

A concert in aid of young Venezuelan musicians who are in desperate need to renew the accessories for their instruments. The programme will combine piano solo and violin, and much-loved pieces including Grieg's Sonata No. 2 and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata with a reading offered by Susan Porrett of the 'Letter to the immortal beloved' by Beethoven. Vibrant Venezuelan music will also be performed by Stephen and Clara, including a selection of joropos accompanied on the cuatro by Arnaldo Cogorno. All proceeds and donations go to Fundación Fidavenezuela.

TICKETS £20, £18, £16 | £13 Concessions | £55 Two adults & two children

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 | bpt.me/4254302

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Why are there so few female composers? But are they really so few? Welcome to Donne: Women in Music! Join Donne in this concert for their first anniversary, as they explore music issued on their first 3 CDs dedicated to women composers, both historical and current. The concert includes music by Hildegard von Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Anna Bon di Venezia, Elisabeth J de La Guerre, Elisabetta de Gambarini and Silvia Berg.

Banish those Autumn blues and let yourself be carried away to the sunnier climes of Iberia and Latin America at Echoes Festival 2019, as we bring you some sizzling music performed by the hottest talent in Latin classical.
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Echoes Festival was launched in 2016 as the new flagship project of ILAMS (the Iberian and Latin American Music Society), in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute. Now in its 4th year, the Festival has brought unique classical Iberican programming to some of London's most prestigious venues, whilst providing a platform to some of the most authentic and illustrious voices within Latin classical music today.

Echoes Festival 2019 has something for everyone: whether you're into Early music or contemporary composers; choral repertoire or piano concerts; whether you're interested in exploring the more serious reaches of the repertoire or you want to indulge your lighter side... This Festival is for you. We can't wait to see you there!

TICKETS

BOOKINGS echoesfestival.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION info@ilams.org.uk | 07762 731010

The city of Puebla in Mexico was founded in 1531, and by the 17th century had become a cultural jewel in the Spanish colonial crown. Initially, the music at Puebla's famous cathedral was led by composers brought to Mexico from Spain and Portugal, such as Gaspar Fernandes or the famous Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, who had already developed a career in Spain before arriving in Puebla in his early 30s, in 1622. Under his leadership the musical establishment there reached its zenith, and into this flourishing environment was born Puebla's native Mexican maestro, Juan García de Zéspedes (1619 – 1678).

Join us for a colourful concert of Mexican Baroque choral treasures performed by the UK's premier amateur consort, The Lacock Scholars, in celebration of Zéspedes' 400th birthday. Conducted by Greg Skidmore, one of the country's leading specialist performers of Renaissance polyphony, the group will present a selection of Zéspedes' works alongside others by his fellow Choirmasters at the Puebla Cathedral, and selected Spanish Renaissance masterworks that were also an integral part of Zéspedes' repertoire. The concert will be in the characteristic Lacock Scholars style; seamless and without applause, allowing you to approach the music on your own terms, surrounded by the magnificent architecture of one of east London's hidden gem Baroque churches, St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate.
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PLUS Ticket includes a complimentary glass of Spanish wine and the chance to mingle and meet the musicians after the performance!
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Lacock Scholars voices
Greg Skidmore conductor

SNEAK PEEK! Audio clips
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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and Lacock Courses, with the kind support of Ribera del Duero

TICKETS 

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 (lines open 24/7) | brownpapertickets.com

If you are an amateur singer passionate about classical music with some prior experience of choral performance, treat yourself to an uplifting workshop on 16 November in the atmospheric Baroque surroundings of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate's Church, and come and see what this feel-good choral craze is all about – it's the perfect opportunity to exercise and socialise!
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In celebration of the 2019 quatercentenary of Mexican Baroque composer Juan García de Zéspedes (ca. 1619–1678), this one-day workshop will explore a selection of Zéspedes' works alongside others by his fellow Choirmasters at the Puebla Cathedral in Mexico where he was maestro de capilla: Gaspar Fernandes, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla and Antonio de Salazar. This varied programme of small-scale works will comprise texts in Spanish, Latin, Creole (and Náhuatl!).
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You’ll be amazed how quickly you can learn a new piece with the help of our friendly conductor Jagoba Fadrique - one of the UK's most sought-after Spanish singers and specialist Hispanic choral directors. In the UK Fadrique has collaborated with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Coro Cervantes (with whom he is currently Associate Conductor), and with many of Spain's leading choral ensembles, as well as Early music groups such as the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge. Appearances include some of the UK's most prestigious venues, including St John’s Smith Square, Wigmore Hall and the Globe. His performances have been broadcast on the BBC, RTVE, RNE, KBS (Korea), NPO (Holland) and he has recorded for numerous labels, including Signum Records, RTVE Música, and NB Musika.
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Juan García de Zéspedes Ay que me abraso | Convidando está la noche | Hermoso amor que forxas | Salve Regina
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla Ah, siolo Flasiquiyo | Las estrellas se ríen | Stabat Mater | Versa est in luctum
Gaspar Fernandes Magnificat | Tleycantimo Choquiliya | Un relox a visto Andrés | Xicochi conetzintle
Antonio de Salazar Guarda la fiera | Missus est Gabriel | O vos Omnes | Oigan un vejamen
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Jagoba Fadrique conductor
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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and Lacock Courses 

TICKETS £45 | £40 Concessions | £35 Members of ILAMS | £10 Friends of Echoes Festival

Ticket price includes:

• Use of a hire score. (You may also opt to puchase a copy to keep, if you prefer.)
• Complimentary refreshments throughout the day
• Free entry to the Lacock Scholars Concert in the Evening

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 (lines open 24/7)​ | brownpapertickets.com

Places allocated to participants on a first-come-first-served basis

'So beautiful!' BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour)

In the relatively macho world of Latino culture, it is paradoxically refreshing to know that some of Spain and Latin America's greatest composers and writers are in fact women. In this event we invite you to enter the captivating world of Luso-Hispanic art song as conceived by its most outstanding and beguiling women authors. Discover the compelling voices of women poets and musicians spanning three centuries from all corners of the Latin world, including Spain, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, presented by two pre-eminent female Spanish-British artists specialising in this repertoire: soprano Lorena Paz Nieto and pianist Helen Glaisher-Hernández.

Alongside the more established names of composers such as Teresa Carreño, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Gisela Hernández, and some of the pillars of Luso-Hispanic letters like Santa Teresa de Ávila, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Gabriela Mistral, the concert also presents the forgotten treasures and forbidden songs of some twenty lesser-known authors, including several British premieres and the celebration of two 2019 centenaries: Hilda Pires dos Reis (1919-2001, Brazil) and María Alvarez Ríos (1919-2010, Cuba). The artists will introduce you to the incredible personalities of all these creative women and the inspiring, and often tragic, biographical stories behind their art.

Difficult to define collectively, the songs in this eclectic programme broach a kaleidoscope of themes, covering everything from love, motherhood and gender politics to less stereotypically 'femenine' subjects such as landscape, philosophy and spirituality, articulated through a multitude of musical languages and influences as diverse as plainchant, folk music, jazz, tango, zarzuela, children's songs, Romanticism, film music and various avant-gardes. The best reason to come along to this event is, however, not to hear some great women composers, but simply to hear some great composers! Prepare yourself for an evening of lyric revelations and essential new musical acquaintances that might just leave you wondering how you ever managed to live without them.​..

Teresa Carreño / Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine Feuillet d'album
Gisela Hernández / Angel Gaztelu Miraba la noche el alma
Modesta Bor / Nicolás Guillén Tríptico sobre poesía cubana: 'Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito'
Chiquinha Gonzaga / Chiquinha Gonzaga Lua branca
Judith Weir / Anonymous A Spanish Liederbooklet: 'Seranilla de la zarzuela'
María Rodrigo / Martínez Sierra Ayes: ‘No. 3’
Carlota Garriga / Anonymous Cançons populars catalanes: ‘Canço del lladre’
Matilde Salvador / Xavier Casp D’aires de cançó: 'Jo faria'
Irma Urteaga Cánticos para soñar: 'Vocalise'
Catarina Domenici / Catarina Domenici Marielle Presente
Odaline de la Martínez / Federico García Lorca Canciones: ‘Es verdad’
Hilda Pires dos Reis / Hilda Pires dos Reis Modinha
Adriana Verdié / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de mujeres y elementos: 'mujer agua (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz)'
Ernesto Lecuona / Juana de Ibarbourou Cinco canciones con versos de Juana de Ibarbourou: 'Quiero ser hombre'
Carlos Guastavino / Gabriela Mistral Seis canciones de cuna de Gabriela Mistral: 'Encantamiento'
Antonio Estévez / Ana Teresa Hernández Primeros pasitos
Heitor Villa-Lobos / Dora Vasconcellos Floresta do Amazonas: 'Melodia sentimental'
Alberto Ginastera / Silvina Ocampo Las horas de una estancia: 'Alba'
Ariel Ramírez / Félix Luna (after Alfonsina Storni) Mujeres argentinas: 'Alfonsina y el mar'
Astor Piazzolla / Eladia Blázquez Siempre se vuelve a Buenos Aires
Manuel García Morante / Santa Teresa de Avila Exclamaciones de Santa María de Jesús: ¡Oh, Dios mío y mi sabiduría!
Yvette Souviron / Yvette Souviron Carnavalito: canción del Altiplano
Meri Lao / Meri Lao Una donna senza uomo
Bárbara Llanes / Bárbara Llanes Entre el mar y la ciudad
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PLUS Ticket includes a complimentary glass of Spanish wine!

Lorena Paz Nieto soprano
Helen Glaisher-Hernández piano

SNEAK PEEK! Video clip

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, with the kind support of Ribera del Duero

TICKETS (Include a complimentary glass of Spanish wine)

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 (lines open 24/7) | brownpapertickets.com

'An outstanding musician.' The Times

Welcome to an exciting new classical event concept and the chance to improve your health and wellbeing aided by the holistic musical art of inimitable Russian concert pianist, composer and qualified BWY yoga instructor, GéNIA.
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In this immersive event, GéNIA - founder of the ground-breaking Piano-Yoga® method - invites you to participate in a true 'Piano-Yoga®' experience uniting mind, body and spirit. A fresh and unique response to the current 'yoga class with live music' craze, the session will pair specific yoga exercises with complementary musical performances in a symbiotic way to allow each to inform and enhance the other. Participants will be led through various yoga postures and yogic breathing exercises in between guided musical listening segments as part of a specially-curated programme designed specifically to sharpen awareness, uplift and energise. Inspired by the mystical music of Spanish composer Federico Mompou, GéNIA also harnesses the zesty and upbeat Latin vibes of Piazzolla alongside music by Scarlatti, Japanese Buddhist composer Somei Satoh and compositions from her own recently-released album Babylon. The Swiss Church, located in the heart of Covent Garden, offers the perfect setting in which to hear this luminous music, with its bright, contemporary space and clean and spacious environment. Prepare to leave this event transformed, refreshed and ready for the weekend!
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PLUS Ticket includes a complimentary glass of Spanish wine and the chance to mingle and meet the artist after the event!

No previous experience of yoga is required. We recommend that you bring your yoga mat, yoga block and belt, if you have them, and be ready to take your shoes off. But if you prefer not to take part in any of the practical exercises, just sit back and enjoy the music! (Chairs will be provided.)
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An enigma of the music world, GéNIA has a diverse repertoire and an enthralling stage presence. Following performances at Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre and St Martin-in-the-Fields to name just a few, GéNIA’s concerts often take a form of a show, rather than a classical concert, as she loves to connect with her audience and make the experience very personal. GéNIA is a Caffè Nero featured classical artist and has recently enjoyed success as a composer with the release of her latest solo piano album Babylon alongside several sold-out London shows, whilst her music has been featured on the critically-acclaimed BBC TV series Killing Eve, the ITV series Cold Feet, Classic FM, BBC Radio 2, BBC London Radio, and Talk Radio, as well as in various other TV series and adverts.

Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in F Minor, K466
Federico Mompou Paisajes (Selection)
Astor Piazzolla Tango-Etudes: 'No. 4' | Libertango
Somei Satoh Incarnation 2
GéNIA Babylon
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GéNIA concert artist & yoga session leader

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and Piano-Yoga®, with the kind support of Ribera del Duero

TICKETS 

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 (lines open 24/7) | brownpapertickets.com

In tandem with the Instituto Cervantes' conference on Spanish exile, Guitarist Yiannis Efstathopoulos presents the UK launch of his recently-released album, Seis Caprichos, on the Passacaille label - a project re-framing the modern Spanish classical guitar canon around the largely forgotten output of the so-called Generation ’27. Composed in the 1930s, this music was only revived and published in recent decades; having fallen victim to the ravages of the Spanish Civil War, its composers were either assassinated or exiled by the Franco regime. The first guitar works to be written by non-guitarist composers, they represent part of the compelling zeitgeist of an era protagonised by the genius of Federico García Lorca, at a fascinating time when the guitar was still searching for its place and formulating its identity within the art music of Spain and beyond.
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Greek guitarist Yiannis Efstathopoulos is a passionate performer and researcher of Spanish music who has performed and lectured in major concert halls, festivals and conferences worldwide. His studies include Classical Guitar, Early Plucked Instruments, Composition and World Music at the University of Macedonia, the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels (where he now works as a teacher and assistant researcher), as well as the Academia Chigiana in Siena and the Emilio Pujol Catedra Cervera. In recent years he has specialised in historical performance practices, and the Spanish Romantic Guitar in particular. As a PhD candidate at the Free University of Brussels he is currently completing his thesis on the Spanish Generation of ‘27. Yiannis performs on a guitar inspired by Santos Hernández, made by Christopher Dean.

Manuel De Falla Homenaje a Debussy
Julián Bautista Preludio y danza
Roberto Gerhard Fantasía
Gustavo Pittaluga Homenaje a Matéo Albéniz
Salvador Bacarisse Pavane
Rodolfo Halffter Giga
Antonio José Martinez Palacios Sonata
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Yiannis Efstathopoulos guitar

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Co-produced by ILAMS and the Instituto Cervantes as part of Echoes Festival 2019 and the guitarrísimo series in collaboration with King's College London, with the kind support of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce

TICKETS Admission free; booking essential

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk

"Sexier than '50 Shades of Grey'." Bob Geldof 

There’s plenty to get your hips swaying in this sultry concert of jazz and Latin-American classical tango. Martin Palmeri’s cult choral masterpiece Misa a Buenos Aires is ingeniously juxtaposed with the Mass in Blue by acclaimed international composer and Guildford resident, Will Todd, which has also fast become one of the most popular modern choral works in the world. Playing with the Will Todd Ensemble will be the chart-busting Latin American music specialists, the Santiago Quartet, alongside the UK's very own home-grown bandoneon player, Julian Rowlands, and bass player, Tom Mason. ...And if that’s not exciting enough, there will be live tango dancing from dance partners Richard Manuel and Paula Duarte, who performed in Guildford to huge acclaim in the 2018 Spring Music Festival.
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Astor Piazzolla Milonga del Angel | Oblivion | Otoño porteño
Martin Palmeri Misatango: Misa a Buenos Aires
Will Todd Mass in Blue
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Vivace Chorus
Jeremy Backhouse conductor
The Santiago Quartet
Francis Pott piano
Julian Rowlands bandoneon
Tom Mason double bass
Will Todd Ensemble
Richard Manuel & Paula Duarte dancers

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and the Vivace Chorus, in aid of Mind

TICKETS £24, £20 | £13 Under-16s | £7 Friends of Echoes Festival  

+ Retiring collection in aid of Mind

BOOKINGS 01483 369350 | glive.co.uk

*CANCELLED*

As part of his visit to the Royal Academy of Music, where he will be leading a workshop for composition students, José Manuel López López - one of Spain's leading contemporary composers - will offer an illustrated presentation on his work in the new Angela Burgess Recital Hall.
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Specific themes analysed will include the composer’s trajectory as a composer and, in particular, the influence of electronic music on his instrumental works such as the piano and violin concertos; his circular approach to musical time and temporal use of scales in works such as Study No. 2 on Metric Modulations for 4 percussion instruments, Haikus of the Sea and VibraZoyd for vibraphone and electronics; his use of instrumental and metric granulation as applied to micro and macro temporal scales; extra-musical influences in pieces such as Autumn Wind, where poetry (haikus) and algorithm combine; and in reference to works such as La Céleste, Homing, and No time the composer will consider his collaborations with other artists.
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José Manuel López López speaker

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Presented by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and the Royal Academy of Music

TICKETS Admission free

BOOKINGS info@ilams.org.uk | Attendance is strictly by prior booking only, via email. Please note that places are limited, with priority given to Friends of Echoes Festival

Isaac Albéniz's masterpiece, Iberia, stands as the most well-travelled, musical whistle-stop-tour of the Iberian Peninsula, but it does overlook one important region: Portugal! In this recital, the young Portuguese pianist, Nuno Lucas, will perform piano music from both Spain and his homeland to offer a comprehensive Iberian musical landscape, complementing Iberia's 'El Albaicín' with works by Silva, Vianna da Motta and Lopes Graça alongside others by Spanish composer Antonio Soler, and honorary Spanish composer, Domenico Scarlatti.
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Hailing from Lisbon, Nuno Lucas is currently pursuing a Master's in Music at the Royal College of Music with the support of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Talent Unlimited, following undergraduate studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where he graduated with First-Class Honours. Lucas has also participated in masterclasses with names such as Angela Hewitt, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Stephen Hough, Artur Pizarro and Paul Badura-Skoda. A prize-winner at numerous national and international competitions, Lucas performs regularly in the UK and abroad both as a soloist and chamber musician.

Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in C# Minor, K247
Antonio Soler Sonata in F# Major, R90
Óscar da Silva Dolorosas (Selection)
José Vianna da Motta Barcarolas
Fernando Lopes Graça Variações sobre um tema popular português
Isaac Albéniz Iberia: ‘El Albaicín’
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Nuno Lucas piano

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and St James's Piccadilly, with the kind support of Talent Unlimited

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk | ilams.org.uk | londres.cervantes.es | talent-unlimited.org.uk

In this all-Russian programme, acclaimed Venezuelan pianist Clara Rodríguez presents works by three great Russian composers for the piano. The music is complemented by readings by actress Susan Porrett and projected artworks by Klara Smith.

Presented by 7 Star Arts

TICKETS £18 + £2.02 booking fee | Discount for ILAMS members

BOOKINGS billetto.co.uk

INFORMATION billeto.co.uk | 7stararts.com

At Bilingual Beats we speak music! ...And we sing languages!

Bring your little one along to this special early childhood bilingual music event aimed at 0-5 year-olds - part of a unique programme run by the groundbreaking initiative, Bilingual Beats, which integrates the learning of music and Spanish in a fun, dynamic and creative way.
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In this session led by native teacher and musician, Alvaro Pérez, your child will learn to move rhythmically, to sing, and to develop listening and improvisational skills, acquiring at the same time new Spanish vocabulary and grammatical structures. Bilingual Beats song collections include original songs, specifically composed to reach language and music objectives, as well as traditional songs from Spanish-speaking countries in a variety of styles.

Alvaro Pérez guitar

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and Bilingual Beats

TICKETS £15 | 20% off Friends of Echoes Festival when booking online

BOOKINGS 07482 201616 | ilams.org.uk

Calling all record collectors! If you're trying to navigate your way through the dauntingly huge world of Latin Classical music, don't fear - our resident expert is here to guide you through the labyrinth. Join classical music addict and weekend journalist, Ray Picot, at the Cervantes Institute for an informal introduction to the sumptuous music of Spanish composer, Enrique Granados. Whether you're new to Granados' catalogue or a seasoned aficionado, this event has something for everyone. Ray will highlight the key masterworks as well as revealing the lesser-known hidden gems in the repertoire. Discover the seminal interpretations alongside more recent release revelations, whilst learning about the music in context.
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Enrique Granados was one of a triumvirate of great Spanish composers, along with Isaac Albéniz and Manuel de Falla, to achieve international acclaim during the early years of the 20th century. His Romantic idiom stems from the music of Schumann, but his music developed to encompass new European musical ideas, Spanish art and folksong traditions, with particular affinity to the time of Goya. He was, with Albéniz, part of a movement that lead to a new renaissance in Spanish music. His untimely death deprived Spanish music of one of its great composers, though his music flourished through a new generation of performers and latterly a rich legacy of recordings.

Ray Picot has been chief CD and concert reviewer at the Iberian & Latin American Music Society since 2001 and currently writes a popular monthly column for Echoes Magazine titled Ray's Round-Up. A regular guest speaker at recorded music societies around the country, Ray boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of the field - think of him as your go-to guide to Latin Classical discography.

Ray Picot presenter

PLUS At the end of the talk there will be an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker over a complimentary glass of Spanish wine!

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, with the kind support of Ribera del Duero

TICKETS Admission free

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

The Spanish pianist Pablo Amorós, described as 'temperamental, elegant and charismatic', plays virtuoso pieces by Granados and de Falla, respectively evoking the world of Lisztian Romantic virtuosity and the sights and sounds of Andalusia.

Pablo Amorós piano

Opus Musica series

TICKETS Free admission; exit donations welcome

BOOKING No booking required; seasts allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk | pabloamoros.com

After a day of intense open masterclasses with pedagogue Odaline de la Martínez, our EF 'Young Talents' will perform their pieces in an informal evening concert open to all.

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Talent Unlimited and King's College London

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'Energy crackles around the Cuban-born conductor and composer like an electric field.' 
Sunday Times Magazine

'We find musical Britain inconceivable without her, and not just because she brings a gust of Latin energy and a warmth to the frequently staid groves of musical academy...' Time Out

Are you a Music student or recent Music graduate currently working on Latin composers? Join us at King's College London where Cuban-American pedagogue and polymath, Odaline de la Martínez, will be offering a day of public, one-to-one coaching sessions on Latin Classical repertoire to a group of young talents. Participation is open to all instruments and levels (from enthusiast through to professional) by prior application. Participants will also present final performances of their repertoire in an informal evening concert. Places are limited to a maximum of x12, so early registration is strongly recommended!
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Odaline de la Martínez is a formidable force on today's classical music scene, pursuing a busy career as a composer, conductor, record producer and event curator. Working with everything from Mozart symphonies to the latest contemporary music, she has acquired a remarkable reputation for her versatile and eclectic vision. Martínez obtained her MMus in Composition at the University of Surrey following studies at Tulane University and the Royal Academy of Music, where she founded her ensemble, Lontano, in 1976 and with whom she has performed and broadcast all over the world. She appears frequently as guest conductor with leading orchestras worldwide and throughout Great Britain, including all the BBC orchestras; Martínez was the first woman to conduct a BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall in 1984.

Martínez runs the London Festival of American Music (now in its 7th year), and for the 2020 season is co-curating Julliard’s FOCUS Festival of women composers. She has recorded over 40 CDs with Lorelt (Lontano Records, which she founded in 1992), Chandos, Summit, Albany, Metier, Conifer Classics, DaCapo and BMI and is also known as a broadcaster for BBC radio and television. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Villa-Lobos Medal from the Brazilian Government, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Surrey. A prolific composer, Martínez wrote her first opera, Sister Aimee: An American Legend, in 1984 and recently premiered her latest opera trilogy Imoinda: A Story of Love and Slavery. As a musician Martínez is published by Composers Edition.

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1. Name
2. Instrument / ensemble
3. Piece(s) you would like to work on, with precise durations
4. Contact telephone number
5. Postal Address
6. Age
7. Approximate level
8. Audio / video links of your performances (if you have any)
9. Social media handles
10. How you heard about this event
11. Any other information you think it would be useful for us to know about you​

T&Cs

• Each coaching session will last 30 minutes.
• Pieces must either be: by a composer of Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American origin; or be inspired by one of these regions in some way.
• If you would like some guidance on choosing repertoire or locating scores we can provide a list of suggested pieces and publishers for your instrument and level.
• Original compositions (as opposed to arrangements) on original instruments will be preferred, but we are happy to consider exceptions and to advise on specific pieces.
• Chosen repertoire should add up to no more than 5 minutes. Longer works comprising multiple movements may be presented if including one movement no longer than 5 minutes to be performed in the evening concert.
• All participants in the masterclasses will be expected to perform in the evening concert.
• Applications are welcome from musicians of any instrument (including voice) but please note that participants must bring their own instruments (with the exception of piano). Small ensembles are also welcome (duos, trios or quartets).
• Participants are welcome regardless of age, level or background.
• Participants are expected to attend the whole day's sessions (not just drop in and out for their own slot).

​Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Talent Unlimited and King's College London

TICKETS Free to both participants and spectators

BOOKINGS To participate please email us at info@ilams.org.uk with the information specified in the event description above. No booking is required for spectators; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.  

'A very sensitive interpreter who was able to capture, like no other pianist before her, Guastavino's message.' Association of Argentine Music Critics

Described as 'the Schubert of the Pampas' the great Argentine composer, Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000), is best-known for his prolific song output, including iconic lieder such as La rosa y el sauce recorded by the likes of José Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa, Anna Netrebko and many others. Less familiar (but equally worthy of attention) is his considerable catalogue for piano, full of the lyricism and charm of the composer's local folk influences. In this recital, leading Argentine pianist Liliana Salsano showcases a representative selection of pieces from her 2019 landmark recording of the complete Guastavino solo piano music; the first recording of Guastavino's entire piano literature to be undertaken by a single pianist.
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A native of the province of Santa Fe, like Guastavino himself, Lilia Salsano is considered one of the pre-eminent Argentine pianists of her generation. Since graduating from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral she has garnered numerous prizes both nationally and internationally, and also performs frequently at home and abroad - most recently at the Martha Argerich Festival of Buenos Aires. A passionate ambassador for Argentine composers more broadly, she recorded the world premiere album of the complete piano music of Virtú Maragno, and has performed numerous other world premieres, including many pieces dedicated specially to her. Salsano is also the resident pianist of the Provincial Symphony Orchestra of Santa Fe and has performed extensively with other orchestras such as the Juan de Dios Filiberto National Orchestra of Argentine Music, the J. de San Martín National Youth Orchestra and the Academic Orchestra of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Salsano is currently a faculty member at the Antonio Fuentes del Arco Liceo Municipal of Santa Fe.

Carlos Guastavino Diez cantilenas argentinas (Selection) | Tres romances nuevos (Selection) | Romance de Cuyo | Las niñas | Tres sonatinas sobre ritmos de la manera popular argentina

Lilia Salsano piano

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Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 and Amigo Month in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and St Martin-in-the-Fields

TICKETS Free admission; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

'What intrigues me is how my father could tame so many faculties, switch from one universe to another. This has never ceased to be him.' Alessandro Santoro

One of the most important Brazilian voices in classical music of the 20th century, Cláudio Santoro (1919-1989) stands as one of the most restless and versatile musicians of our time. A child prodigy, brilliant performer and conductor, dynamic event organizer, and a lucid educator and researcher, his major contribution to Brazil's musical life and institutions has influenced several generations; as a composer, he left behind some of the most captivating pieces in the entire Latin American repertoire.
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Cláudio Santoro has his greatest ambassador in his son, Alessandro, who has worked tirelessly to preserve his father's musical legacy and disseminate his catalogue worldwide through the virtual archive, claudiosantoro.art.br, and the management of his publisher, Savart Editions. To mark the 2019 centenary of Cláudio Santoro's birth and the recent release of UnB's urtext edition of the complete Preludes (including some previously unpublished pieces), Alessandro, who edited and revised the collection, will perform selected movements intermingled with rare audio recordings of his father's musical commentaries. Like many of the composers of his hemisphere, Santoro demonstrated an eclectic ability to articulate an almost contradictory range of musical languages, drawing from both classical and popular influences - from the obtuse twelve-tone, avant-garde trends of the early 20th-century to the most sumptuous bossa-nova-esque songs of later years. His piano Preludes, written across the span of his career, offer a fascinating window into the breadth of his oeuvre; these most private and intimate works - also the first and the last pieces he wrote - collectively demonstrate the evolution of his style. Having grown up listening to his father playing them, Alessandro will also share with us his privileged insights into their interpretation.

Copies of the new UnB Edition of Santoro's Preludes for solo piano will be available for perusal / purchase after the concert.

Cláudio Santoro Preludes (selection)

Alessandro Santoro piano and speaker

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PLUS Ticket includes a complimentary glass of Brazilian wine and the chance to mingle and meet the artist after the concert!

Organised by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2019 and Amigo Month in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Poliphonia and the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI), Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community, Translingual Strand, with the kind support of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Brazilian Embassy

TICKETS

MORE INFORMATION echoesfestival.co.uk | ilams.org.uk | modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk |  santoro.mus.br | poliphonia.co.uk | londres.cervantes.es

'An artistic maturity not commonly encountered...' New York Times

Guitarrísimo is back! This September we welcome the illustrious Uruguayan guitarist, Alvaro Pierri, who makes a rare UK appearance coaching guitar students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the elegant, intimate setting of the Peacock Room at King Charles Court.

Alvaro Pierri is internationally acclaimed as one of today's great guitar masters. Press reviews from around the world praise his 'phenomenal virtuosity', 'breathtaking phrasing' and the 'unmatched sound colour spectrum that he creates on the guitar'. Since his brilliant solo debut in New York and in Frankfurt with the Berlin Philharmonic String Soloists he has become a celebrated regular guest at major concert halls and on radio and TV across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Beyond his solo career he has also shared the stage with the likes of Astor Piazzolla, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leo Brouwer, Amjad Ali Khan, the Cherubini and Ysaye Quartets, Yannick Nézet Séguin and Charles Dutoit, amongst many others, and his albums have garnered prestigious prizes and awards. Deutsche Grammophon has recently re-issued a DVD of Pierri performing in duo with Piazzolla, and he has just finished recording at Abbey Road Studios for a new CD series for AlphaOmega - HongKong. He was appointed Head Professor at the prestigious Vienna MDW (the legendary Academy of Music) in 2002, and in 2008 was named 'Honorary Citizen' of his hometown, Montevideo.

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This event is organised by ILAMS in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, with the kind support of the Embassy of Uruguay as part of the Guitarrísimo series

TICKETS Admission free

BOOKINGS No booking required

'An artistic maturity not commonly encountered...' New York Times

Guitarrísimo is back! This September we welcome the illustrious Uruguayan guitarist, Alvaro Pierri, who makes a rare UK appearance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the elegant, intimate setting of the Peacock Room at King Charles Court.

Alvaro Pierri is internationally acclaimed as one of today's great guitar masters. Press reviews from around the world praise his 'phenomenal virtuosity', 'breathtaking phrasing' and the 'unmatched sound colour spectrum that he creates on the guitar'. Since his brilliant solo debut in New York and in Frankfurt with the Berlin Philharmonic String Soloists he has become a celebrated regular guest at major concert halls and on radio and TV across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Beyond his solo career he has also shared the stage with the likes of Astor Piazzolla, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leo Brouwer, Amjad Ali Khan, the Cherubini and Ysaye Quartets, Yannick Nézet Séguin and Charles Dutoit, amongst many others, and his albums have garnered prestigious prizes and awards. Deutsche Grammophon has recently re-issued a DVD of Pierri performing in duo with Piazzolla, and he has just finished recording at Abbey Road Studios for a new CD series for AlphaOmega - HongKong. He was appointed Head Professor at the prestigious Vienna MDW (the legendary Academy of Music) in 2002, and in 2008 was named 'Honorary Citizen' of his hometown, Montevideo.

Alvaro Pierri guitar

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PLUS Join us after the concert for a complimentary glass of Spanish wine courtesy of Ribera del Duero

This event is organised by ILAMS in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, with the kind support of the Embassy of Uruguay and Ribera del Duero as part of the Guitarrísimo series

TICKETS (Include a complimentary glass of Spanish wine)

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 (lines open 24/7) | alvaropierri.brownpapertickets.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Formed in January 2013 at the Royal Academy of Music, the Tritium Trio is a multinational ensemble, comprising Slovenian clarinettist Jernej Albreht, Swedish cellist Lydia Hillerudh, and Australian pianist Joseph Havlat. The foremost desire of this London-based group is to explore repertoire other than pieces typically played by this ensemble type. In March 2017 they won the Audience Prize at the renowned St-Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition, and took up the prestigious post as Royal Academy of Music Chamber Music Fellows for the 2017/18 academic year.

Astor Piazzolla Invierno porteño | Primavera porteña
Alexander von Zemlinsky Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Classical guitarist, Benjamin Carmona, will be playing a selection of contrasting pieces by Astor Piazzolla and Agustín Barrios Mangoré in the beautiful nineteenth-century chapel at Corpus Christi College designed by William Wilkins. Benjamin studied with renowned masters Carlos Bonell and Aniello Desiderio. He has won several international competitions and given highly acclaimed recitals across Europe.

Agustín Barrios Mangoré Aconquija | Minuet in B | Preludio Op. 5, No. 1 | Valses Op. 8 (Selection) | Preludio | El último trémolo | Choro da saudade | La Catedral
Astor Piazzolla Oblivion | Invierno porteño | Verano porteño | Primavera porteña

Benjamin Carmona guitar

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TICKETS Free admission 

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk | 07818 273294

MORE INFORMATION info@benjamincarmona.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Vicky Yuan-Labarre and João Lima present a recital of music from across the world featuring the evocative sounds of the flute and guitar. Programme includes:

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required

INFORMATION stjamespaddington.org.uk

Following their recital for ILAMS in 2018, the D&B Duo return to perform for us for a second time, with a delightful programme of French and Hispanic lollipops for four hands, this time in the beautiful setting of St James's Piccadilly. Originally both from Croatia, the duo are now based in Madrid and have forged a fomidable reputation in the 4-hand piano world, becoming laureats of the Monaco International Competition for Piano-Four Hands in 2013. They have since performed and broadcast together worldwide.

Claude Debussy Petite suite
Isaac Albéniz Suite española: 'Aragón (Fantasía)'
Astor Piazzolla Histoire du tango: 'Café 1930' | Libertango
Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole (Selection)

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This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with St James's Piccadilly

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION db-duo.webs.com | sjp.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

Ray Picot presents a programme of recorded music, exploring the history of Argentine concert music written during the first half of the 20th century. This was a time when composers, who had absorbed European influences, rediscovered their indigenous traditions, to help create distinctive national styles. Amongst these traditions, the gauchos (the cowboys of the pampas), were a particularly potent source of inspiration to writers and musicians. The most important composer of this new generation to achieve international recognition was Alberto Ginastera; whilst from the bars and clubs of Buenos Aires, the tango rose to achieve national and global popularity, which in turn inspired its most famous son, Astor Piazzolla.

Ray Picot presenter  

TICKETS £5

BOOKINGS raypicot@btinternet.com

MORE INFORMATION croydonrecordedmusicsociety.wordpress.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

This highly talented piano duo from Argentina, featuring María Paz Solis Leiton and Sebastián Teijeiro, undertook a successful tour in the UK last year. They return with an exiting programme which explores the music of the modern master of the tango, Astor Piazzolla, including arrangements by Alfredo Corral, G. Mutto and themselves.

Astor Piazzolla Fuga y misterio | Historia del tango | Invierno porteño | Adiós Nonino | Libertango

María Paz Solis Leiton piano
Sebastián Teijeiro piano

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Representing the Argentine Embassy

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION stmartin-in-the-fields.org

'Horacio López Redondo provided fine accompaniment, sympathetic to the way the music moved from pure Latin American rhythm to something more modern.' Planet Hugill

A recital of 19th and 20th-century cello classics and hidden gems from the French, Spanish and English repertoires. Horacio and Javier met at the Madrid Conservatoire in 2003 where they forged a lasting friendship and a mutual love for chamber repertoire. They both furthered their education at the Royal Academy of Music in London and are delighted to present their first joint collaboration at St James's Piccadilly.

Joaquín Nin Seguida española
Frederick Delius Romance
Gabriel Fauré Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor

Javier Romero cello
Horacio López Redondo piano

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Organised by ILAMS in collaboration with St James's Piccadilly

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION sjp.org.uk | ilams.org.uk | javierromerocellist.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Selected by Artslandia magazine as one of their top 50 favourite artists, pianists María García and Momoko Muramatsu (Puerto Rican and Japanese via El Salvador respectively) have had successful individual international careers. María and Momoko met during undergraduate studies at New England Conservatory of Music. Together they explore the classical standards but also the vast repertoire of their shared Latin American musical heritage, and are deeply committed to working with living composers. Their goal is to create memorable musical experiences that include classical/contemporary/rock audiences with an eclectic choice of music and collaborations with other art forms such as film, visual arts, poetry and dance.

J.S. Bach (arr. György Kurtàg) Three Chorale Preludes
Carlos Guastavino Se equivocó la paloma 
Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2
Radiohead (arr. O’Riley/Selden) Let Down | Paranoid Android

María García piano
Momoko Muramatsu piano

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Presented by the Park Lane Group

TICKETS Admission free; voluntary exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION stmartin-in-the-fields.org | 20digitusduo.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

The Argentine pianist, Julieta Iglesias, who now lives in London, performs internationally and her large repertoire ecompasses tango. Julieta has performed with the London Tango Orchestra, the Trio Escualo, the Trio Abril as well as solo, and recently recorded a piano album entitled Astor exploring the music of the master of contemporary tango, Astor Piazzolla. Julieta plays in this concert a collection of music exploring Piazzolla's tango-inspired music, including the well-known Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Astor Piazzolla Invierno porteño | Verano porteño | Otoño porteño | Decaríssimo | Milonga del ángel | La muerte del ángel | Resurrección del ángel | Chau París | Los pájaros perdidos | Retrato de Alfredo Gobbi | Chiquilín de Bachín | Adiós Nonino

Julieta Iglesias piano

TICKETS Free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required

MORE INFORMATION julietaiglesias.com | stjamespaddington.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Born in Slovenia but based in London, the increasingly prominent violinist, Lana Trotovsek and her Spanish-Catalan pianist partner Maria Canyigueral take on three major sonatas from the 19th and 20th century repertoires, plus a rediscovered work (1934) by the Slovenian late-Romantic Lucijan Marija Skerjanc.

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Supported by Classic FM

TICKETS £40, £35, £30, £25, £18 | £5 Concessions 

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!) 

Poliphonia presents the exciting young talents of cellist Lucy Neil and pianist Dominic Ciccotti, in a facinating programme of music that explores music from across the Americas for this instrumental duo. 

Presented by the London-based music charity, Poliphonia

TICKETS £20, £10

BOOKINGS poliphonia.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION poliphonia.co.uk

Born in Spain, solo and chamber pianist Lucía Sánchez de Haro studied at the Musikene Higher School of Music in San Sebastián and the Guidhall School of Music & Drama in London, with support from the Guildhall School Trust and the Leverhulme Trust. A 2015 Concordia Foundation Artist, she is also a recipient of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyle Future Firsts Development Programme. She has performed internationally at venues including Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Royal Festival Hall and Milton Court Concert Hall. Lucía makes her ILAMS debut with a programme of major Spanish and Brazilian works.

Lucía Sánchez de Haro piano

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This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with St Martin-in-the-Fields

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFOMATION 020 7766 1100 | boxoffice@smitf.org | stmartin-in-the-fields.org

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Duo Tágide have adopted an innovative approach towards their choice of repertoire, comparing and contrasting the characteristics of Portuguese and Spanish repertoire, which are deeply ingrained within their national identity and character. They have sought to find a balance between well-known and obscure works and, above all, explore the mutual influences – in music and poetry – that reveal a remarkable level of cultural complicity.

Enrique Granados La maja dolorosa (Selection) | Danzas españolas: 'No. 5'
Jesús Guridi Seis canciones castellanas
José Viana da Motta Pastoral | Canção perdida | Lavadeira e caçador | Cenas portuguesas Op. 9: 'Chula'
Frederico de Freitas Maria da Conceição | O meu menino é d’oiro | Maçelada

Duo Tágide soprano & piano

TICKETS Free; exit donations welcome

BOOKING No booking required

INFORMATION inessimoessoprano.com/duo | stjamespaddington.org.uk

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

Canning House hosts a fund-raising event with the well-known Mexican soprano Zayra Ruiz, Latvian pianist Antonina Suhanova and Michelin-starred chef Omar Romero in favor of Mexico's fetal surgery program. The music will feature opera arias by Puccini and Verdi, piano music by Rachmaninov, selections from zarzuelas by Chapí and Francisco Alonso also Mexican songs by María Grever and Esparza Oteo. The concert will be followed by a silent auction of the work of artist Elvira Pyrkova and designer Marcela Shirazi. Elvira Pyrkova is an artist, costume designer and portraitist. All the funds will be donated to the Kristen Foundation (FK), a non-governmental organisation based in Mexico that contributes to reduce infant mortality caused by lethal congenital malformations and social inequality through its inclusive model of fetal medicine. Their efforts to provide free fetal surgeries have contributed to reduce the inequality gap, allowing families to have access to the most innovative and latest avant-garde medical procedures in the world, regardless of their nationality or socioeconomic status.

Presented by the Fundación Kristen A.C

TICKETS £70

BOOKING www.eventbrite.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION events@canninghouse.org

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Marcela Roggeri and François Chaplin recreate the spirit of 1920s Paris with a concert of works including Ravel, Satie and Gershwin. ‘Les années folles’ (the crazy years) refers to the 1920s in France, when Paris became a thriving symbol of the avant-garde and was home to such iconic figures as Pablo Picasso, Sergei Diaghilev, Maurice Chevalier, Igor Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Charlie Chaplin, Francis Poulenc and Erik Satie. Artists from all over the world gathered in the cabarets of Montmartre and Montparnasse, and many of the great works of music were premiered in Paris. 

Francis Poulenc L'embarquement pour Cythère | Caprice (after Le bal masqué) | Les chemins de l'amour
Erik Satie Je te veux
Maurice Chevalier You brought Me a New Kind of Love
James Johnson The Charleston (arr. J. Lawrence Cook)
Arnold Bax The Devil That Tempted St Anthony | Hardanger
George Gershwin The French Doll: 'Do It Again' | Lady, Be Good!: 'The Man I Love' 
Ángel Villoldo El esquinazo
Carlos Gardel El día que me quieras
Germaine Tailleferre 2 Valses
Maurice Ravel La valse

* Arr. Alejandro Schwarz

Marcela Roggeri piano
François Chaplin piano

TICKETS £30, £20 | £15 Concessions (limited availability)

BOOKINGS 020 3879 9555 | southbankcentre.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION marcelaroggeri.com | francoischaplin.fr 

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

Brazilian pianists Carla Ruaro and Ivan Pires perform orchestral pieces by European composers arranged for piano duet, including Edvard Grieg and Camille Saint-Saëns, as well as South Americans Angel Villoldo and Zequinha de Abreu. For their solos, Carla Ruaro presents her project Raízes - Um Piano na Amazônia (A Piano in the Amazon), where she collaborated with local composers Albery Albuquerque and Altino Pimenta. Ivan Pires presents pieces by British and Brazilian composers such as Madeleine Dring, Edward Elgar, and Ernesto Nazareth, that will be featured on his forthcoming CD From London to Rio

TICKETS £5 (early bird), £6 (at the door), £4 (ILAMS members and concessions)

BOOKINGS www.eventbrite.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION carlaruaro.com | piano-teacher-london.wixsite.com/ivan-pires

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

‘What is most impressive about Norburn's conception is the way various strata and elements combine and cohere so effortlessly. Past and present, truth and fantasy, real and imagined, come together in a tightly knit and intimate drama.’ Opera Today

Join us for the world premiere of brand new concert-play by Clare Norburn. Meet the colourful writer, Prosper Mérimée, whose novella Carmen was the basis for Bizet’s opera. Renowned for his myriad love affairs, in creating the character of Carmen he finds this time he has bitten off rather more than he can chew... In this event, Mérimée's experiences are intertwined with music from Bizet's Carmen and Spanish/Spanish-inspired music by Boccherini, Falla, Granados, Ravel, Délibes and Albéniz, in arrangements by exciting young trio, Carmen Co.

TICKETS £15 | £10 Concessions

BOOKINGS stroudgreenfestival.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION info@stroudgreenfestival.org.uk | franciscocorreaguitar.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recocommend!)

Karol Samuelcik's debut at the Purcell Room features repertoire including masterpieces for classical guitar by composers of the 19th and 21st centuries which are part of the Europen and South American guitar legacies.

Presented by LACCS-UK in collaboration with the Embassy of the Slovak Republic

TICKETS £9 | Concessions (limited availability)

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Poliphonia presents a concert featuring two Romantic sonatas from Brazil for violin and piano played the Anglo-Canadian violinist Anthony Flint and the Brazilian pianist and founder of the charity Poliphonia, Clélia Iruzun.

PLUS: Enjoy a complimentary drink after the concert!

Presented by the London-based music charity Poliphonia

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Poliphonia present a fascinating music from across the America, featuring the Cuban Puerto-Rican soprano Megan Barrera, the Lousiana based clarinetist Ben Redwine and the Brazilain pianist João Paulo Casarotti.

PLUS: Enjoy a complimentary drink after the concert!

Presented by the London-based charity Poliphonia

TICKETS £20 | £15 Concessions | Special multi-buy offer: buy a ticket to the Poliphonia concerts on 4 June and 13 June (in the same transaction) and receive a 10% discount at checkout.

BOOKINGS 020 7620 3055 | 1901artsclub.com

MORE INFORMATION poliphonia.co.uk

(Not an ILAMS event, but one we highly recommend!)

'The renovation of Spanish music in the first half of the 20th century is unthinkable without the presence of Manuel de Falla.' Prof. Nancy Lee Harper

Ray Picot presents a programme of recorded music by Manuel de Falla and his contemporaries. The early 20th century was an exciting time as a new generation of artists took Spain out of cultural isolation. New musical ideas were explored, as composers sought to reconcile the glories of their past with contemporary European musical innovations, resulting in the creation of a distinctive and vibrant music scene. This progress ended suddenly with the Civil War, and only now are we rediscovering a lot of this music which had been lost to previous generations. 

Ray Picot presenter

TICKETS £1.50 | Limited availability; booking essential.

BOOKINGS raypicot@btinternet.com

MORE INFORMATION thefrms.co.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Julieta Iglesias piano

TICKETS Free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required

MORE INFORMATION julietaiglesias.com | stdunstaninthewest.orger large repertoire also encompasses tango. She has performed with the London Tango Orchestra, the Trio Escualo, theAbril, as well as solo piano. Recently, Julieta has recorded her new album "Astor" at Abbey Road Institute

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski was highlighted as ‘one to watch’ by Gramophone magazine. For his second Conway Hall concert, he comes together with the Benyounes Quartet in a programme spanning more than two hundred years, including his own arrangements of Piazzolla and Puccini’s Cristantemi, composed in a single night in 1890, in response to the death of the Duke of Savoy. There will also be a short audience question and answer session with the musicians after the performance.

Pre-concert talk by Robert Hugill at 5.30pm in the Brockway Room

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This event is hosted by Conway Hall Sunday Concerts

TICKETS £12 On the door | £10 In advance | £8 Conway Hall Ethical Society members (please bring membership card) | Free admission to Under 26s thanks to the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust (ID required) | 10% off ILAMS members (please email info@ilams.org.uk for discount code)

BOOKINGS 020 7405 1818 | simon@conwayhall.org.uk | conwayhall.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION morganszymanski.co.uk | benyounesquartet.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one that we highly recommend!)

This concert is part of the London Festival of Baroque Music 2019 and features Flamenco, Sephardic and Arabic music alongside Spanish composers of the late 16th to 18th centuries. 

The origins of flamenco are in shadow. We know its musical influences date back to Islamic Iberia or the al-Andalus era of Spain between the 8th and the 15th centuries. Yet the first mention of flamenco by name is not until 1774. What happened in these intervening centuries? Lux Musicae London collaborate with Flamenco virtuoso Ignacio Lusardi and Oud Maestro Ahmed Mukhtar to discover the music from which flamenco burst forth. Featuring Flamenco, Sephardic and Arabic music alongside Spanish composers of the late 16th to 18th centuries, the programme tells a story of the Iberian peninsula and its music, the programme weaves flamenco itself with music in which we can hear the echoes of its beginnings.

TICKETS £18, YF (unreserved)

BOOKINGS 020 7222 1061 | sjss.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION luxmusicaelondon.com

(Not an ILAMS  event, but one we highly recommend!)

This event is part of the London Festival of Baroque Music 2019. Participants are directed by Jeffrey Skidmore and members of Ex Cathedra. 

TICKETS £12, £8 (Transaction fees: Telephone £2.75; Online £1.75) | Participants are entitled to a 10% discount (within the same transaction) to Ex Cathedra's concert on Friday 17 May 2019.

BOOKINGS 020 7222 1061 | sjss.org.uk 

MORE INFORMATION excathedra.co.uk

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

This concert is part of the London Festival of Baroque Music 2019; the scene is set for The Indian Queen with evocative Latin American Baroque music unearthed by Jeffrey Skidmore during his visits to Mexico and Bolivia. Purcell’s semi-opera imagines war between a Mexican Indian Queen and an Inca King, a tale of tangled loyalties, unexpected identity and seemingly hopeless love. Expect exquisite instrumental music, stunning recitatives and vivid characters – Fame, Envy, a Conjurer to name a few – as things start to unravel for the Indian Queen…

Henry Purcell The Indian Queen

TICKETS £32, £24, £18, £12, YF (Transaction fees: £2.75 Telephone | £1.75 Online)

BOOKINGS 020 7222 1061 | sjss.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION excathedra.co.uk

'So beautiful'. BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour)

'An indomitable voice with elegant phrasing'. La Nación

Launching with a sell-out concert at Southbank Centre's Purcell Room as part of La Linea Festival, the TangOpera project offers a heady fusion of tango and high art. Exploring the rich and wonderfully complex lyric history of the Argentine tango, the programme traces its global trajectory from roots in bel canto opera, Italian canzonetta and the Cuban habanera through to the golden age of tango canción and Carlos Gardel, to the art songs of classical composers such as, Bizet, Falla, Guastavino and Piazzolla. Conceived by British-Spanish pianist and Latin classical specialist, Helen Glaisher-Hernández, this unique project features the exhilarating voice of leading Argentine tenor and Latin Grammy Nominee, Leonardo Pastore, alongside special guests, soprano Christin Wismann and violinist Emma Arizza. Join us for this special late-night event at Crazy Coqs - the perfect nocturnal setting in which to enjoy a drink and surrender yourself to the seductive allure of the tango.

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This event is organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) in collaboration with Crazy Coqs as part of Live at Zédel

TICKETS £30 | £25 Concessions | £15 Members of ILAMS

BOOKINGS 020 7734 4888 | brasseriezedel.com

MORE INFORMATION info@crazycoqs.com | helenglaisherhernandez.com | ilams.org.uk

French pianist, Patrick Hemmerlé, makes his ILAMS debut with a sumptuous programme of French, Spanish and Brazilian works. Hemmerlé recently won the CFRPM competition in Paris dedicated to fringe repertoire, where he was commended for his interpretation of Villa-Lobos' Rudepoema - a work which features on his forthcoming album. 

Claude Debussy Préludes: 'La Puerta del Vino'
Isaac Albéniz Iberia: 'El Albaicín'
Déodat Séverac Cerdaña: 'Les muletiers devant le Christ de Llivia'
Enrique Granados Goyescas: 'El pelele'
Maurice Ravel Miroirs: 'Alborada del gracioso'
Heitor Villa-Lobos Rudepoêma

Patrick Hemmerlé piano

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This is an ILAMS event organised in collaboration with St James's Piccadilly

TICKETS Admission free; exit donations welcome

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION ilams.org.uk | patrickhemmerle.com | sjp.org.uk

'So beautiful'. BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour)

'An indomitable voice with elegant phrasing'. La Nación

Launching with a sell-out concert at Southbank Centre's Purcell Room as part of La Linea Festival, the TangOpera project offers a heady fusion of tango and high art. Exploring the rich and wonderfully complex lyric history of the Argentine tango, the programme traces its global trajectory from roots in bel canto opera, Italian canzonetta and the Cuban habanera through to the golden age of tango canción and Carlos Gardel, to the art songs of classical composers such as Bizet, Falla, Guastavino and Piazzolla. Conceived by British-Spanish pianist and Latin classical specialist, Helen Glaisher-Hernández, this unique project features the exhilarating voice of leading Argentine tenor and Latin Grammy nominee, Leonardo Pastore, and the scintillating Spanish violinist, Violeta Barreña.

PLUS: Join us after the concert for a complimentary glass of Argentinian wine!

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This event is organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS)

BOOKINGS 0800 411 8881 (lines open 24/7) | brownpapertickets.com/event/4219231

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

Presented by the London-based music charity Poliphonia

TICKETS £20 | £10

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

In her recital the Argentinian concert pianist, Nélida Sánchez, will present a composition that develops on the melody of the film Limelight by Charlie Chaplin of Alejandro Cattaneo and the 5th Piano Sonata of Sergio Martínez, both of which are London premieres. The recital will also include two pieces by the talented English composer Nimrod Borenstein called Reminiscences of Childhood, plus music by Handel, and one of the public's favourite sonatas, Moonlight, by Ludwig van Beethoven. 

Nélida Sánchez piano

TICKETS £15

BOOKINGS ï»¿020 7620 3055 | 1901artsclub.com

MORE INFORMATION nelidasanchez.com.ar

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

TICKETS £18 | £6 Children to age 18 | £6 Jobseekers

BOOKINGS 01483 444334 | tickets.visitguildford.com | In person from: Guildford Tourist Information Centre, 155 High Street, Guildford, Surrey GU4 7EB

MORE INFORMATION santiagoquartet.com 

Russian-Lithuanian pianist, Jelena Makarova, makes her ILAMS debut with a recital of Spanish works at the sumptuous St Martin-in-the Fields. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Jelena has performed worldwide at venues such as Carnegie Hall, St John's Smith Square and the Purcell Room, as well as appearances on national radio.

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This event is organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society in collaboration with St Martin-in-the-Fields

TICKETS Admission free; voluntary exit donations

BOOKINGS No booking required; seats allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

MORE INFORMATION www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

'Iruzun seems to caress the notes, and everything in her playing is spontaneous and natural.' El Día

Clélia Iruzun studied at the School of Music in Rio de Janeiro before becoming an advanced student at London’s Royal Academy of Music, where she won a number of major prizes. She has subsequently worked with Nelson Freire, Jacques Klein, Stephen Kovacevich and Fou Ts'Ong, among other renowned artists, and many important Brazilian composers have written works for her. Clélia Iruzun now pursues a busy international career as a soloist, including concerts at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall; the Grand Theatre in Shanghai; the Konserthusets in Gothenburg and Stockholm’s the Poznan Philharmonie. Clélia also undertakes annual tours of Brazil, appearing in the major halls and festivals of her native country. She is co-founder of the charity Poliphonia, which promotes music from the Americas in the UK.

Clélia Iruzun piano

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This event is organised by the Embassy of Brazil and is made possible with the generous support of Naxos and Markson Pianos

TICKETS Admission free

BOOKINGS eventbrite.co.uk

MORE INFORMATION cleliairuzun.com

 (Not an ILAMS concert but one that we recommend)

As the seasons turn, banish all memories of cold and darkness and join us for a feast of music from, and inspired by, Spain and South America. We will embark on a musical journey through Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and finish in Spain with the much loved Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo featuring exciting young guitarist Chris Roberts. It will be an afternoon of exciting rhythms, great tunes and wonderful harmony.

Aaron Copland Danzón cubano | El Salón México
Alberto Ginastera Estancia Suite
Astor Piazzolla Sinfonía Buenos Aires
Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez

Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra | Christopher Roberts guitar | Stephen Belinfante conductor

TICKETS £12 | £6 Students | Under 16s free

BOOKINGS 0844 576 2210 | boxoffice@cheltenhamtrust.org.uk | cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk

MORE INFORMATION cheltenhamphilharmonic.co.uk

Join the vivacious Lanzarote Ensemble for an evening of musical folly and indulgence on the 14th March as they make their UK debut at St Paul’s Covent Garden. Featuring the work Salieri once described as conveying ‘God’s voice on Earth’, Mozart’s iconic Serenade No. 10, this sumptuous programme also includes a UK premiere by the ensemble’s founder and director, Ayoze Rodríguez, entitled Variaciones sobre las folías; an expansive journey from the famous ‘folías de España’ of the Spanish Renaissance, through to the Baroque and beyond, to the contemporary folk folías of the composer’s native Canary Islands. The Lanzarote Ensemble is an exciting new chamber orchestra established to showcase the very best classical talent of this enchanting and vibrantly musical island.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 10 in Bb Major ‘Gran Partita’, K361
Ayoze Rodríguez Variaciones sobre la folía de Canarias

The Lanzarote Ensemble
Ayoze Rodríguez director
James Blair conductor

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Organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and the Ecmo. Cabildo Insular de Lanzarote, with the kind support of the YMSO and St Paul’s Covent Garden

PLUS Ticket includes a complimentary drinks reception with wines from Lanzarote!

TICKETS £10 | £8 Concessions | £6 Members of ILAMS / IC

BOOKINGS actorschurch.ticketsolve.com/shows/873599825

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

'Clara Rodriguez makes the most of her innate feel for the exuberant and languorous, dispatching the toe-tapping cross-rhythms with panache and a light touch.' Gramophone Magazine

Venezuelan pianist Clara Rodríguez presents an enticingly varied programme, combining piano music by Chopin, Scarlatti, and Beethoven with pieces by Latin American composers María Luisa Escobar, Evencio Castellanos and Federico Ruiz. 

Frederic Chopin Etude Op. 10, No. 6 in G flat minor | Etude Op. 25, No. 1 in A flat major | Etude Op. 25, No. 7 in C sharp minor
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in E minor K 232, L 62 | Sonata in F minor K 239, L281 | Sonata in C major K 132, L 457
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Maria Luisa Escobar Noche de luna en Altamira
Evencio Castellanos Mañanita caraqueña
Federico Ruiz Carmen Rosa | Zumba que zumba

Clara Rodríguez piano

Part of Iconoclassics – classical music in the iconic Jazz Room, promoted by 7 Star Arts

TICKETS £18 on the door | £15 in advance

BOOKINGS 07889 399862 | tickets.thebullsheadbarnes.com

MORE INFORMATION 7stararts.com | sevenstarconcerts@hotmail.com

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

Fábio Fernandes began classical guitar lessons from the age of 11 at Academia de Música de Viana do Castelo with Francisco Gomes. Since then Fábio fell in love with the world of the classical guitar and performance leading him to move to London where he completed his Undergraduate studies Bmus (Hons) at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2018. Fernandes is currently on a Masters in Classical Guitar Performance at the same institution. Alongside his studies of the traditional guitar repertoire, Fernandes is also highly engaged with song writing, encouraging young composers to write for the guitar and the exploration of early music. He started studying the lute and theorbo in 2015. Fernandes has attended masterclasses with many of the world’s most distinguished guitarists such as: Ana Vidovic, Ignacio Rodes, Máximo D. Pujol, Antigoni Goni, Margarita Escarpa and Graham Devine. Besides obtaining 2nd and 3rd prizes in several national and international competitions in Portugal, Fernandes has performed many solo, ensemble and choir concerts all around Portugal and several in England, Czech Republic and Poland.

Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for lute in D major, RV 93
Carlos Seixas Concerto for harpsichord in A major (arr. Emilio Pujol)
Joaquin Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend)

Chilean pianist Danor Quinteros has received critical acclaim and numerous national and international awards. Praised for his artistic sensitivity and dexterity, he has appeared in numerous Halls and venues such as Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Tonhalle Zürich, Klavierfestival-Ruhr, Banff Centre and the Romanian Atheneum. Recently, Danor rendered a memorable performance of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra during the final of the Enescu Competition 2016 in Bucharest and was awarded the 3rd Prize. In the same year, he won the Prize for best accompanist in the Violin category.

Danor Quinteros has also been a prizewinner in many other piano competitions around the world including the Ile de France Piano Competition, Santa Cecilia Piano Competition in Porto, Académie de Musique Lausanne, Dr. Luis Sigall Competition, Claudio Arrau International Competition. His wide repertoire ranges from Scarlatti and Clementi to Ligeti and Uusuk Chin. Additionally, he has strong passion for undeservedly less performed composers such as Enescu, Medtner, Bowen and Soro which often appear on his recital programs and can be heard in his recordings. Recently, Danor Quinteros released an EP with works of Bartók, Medtner and Ligeti  and has on his agenda future releases for the label KNS Classic.

This concert forms part of an international tour presenting piano music by Chilean composers over the last 100 years.

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Instituto Cervantes Manchester brings this unique salsa and brass band and their incredible Latino rhythms to the city. Having celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2018, the band continue their tour around the UK with live performances and outstanding events, including collaborations with the animator Guillermo Davis (Iyawo Studios). Charanga del Norte is made up of 12 brilliant musicians from the British salsa scene. In contrast to the majority of salsa groups, Charanga del Norte features many female instrumentalists and promotes an approach that is more representative of Latino dance music in the 21st Century.

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Presented by the Instituto Cervantes Manchester

TICKETS £12, £10

BOOKINGS 0161 661 4200 | cultman@cervantes.es

MORE INFORMATION cultura.cervantes.es

(Not an ILAMS concert, but one we highly recommend!)

Uncover musical gems from the Americas with Brazilian pianist Clelia Iruzun, Coull Quartet and double bass player, Sarah Neil. The concert marks the anniversary year of two of Brazil’s most celebrated composers: Marlos Nobre in his 80th year, and João Guilherme Ripper in his 60th. Iruzun and Coull Quartet come together to perform Nobre’s Desafio and Ripper’s From My Window – a snapshot of Brazilian street life. These pieces are interspersed by the pianistic fireworks of Alberto Ginastera's intensely visceral Piano Sonata No. 1, a formidable work intended to capture the spirit of Argentinian folk music. The passionate and melodically-rich Piano Quintet, Op. 67 by North-American child prodigy, Amy Beach, starts the second half, and closing this American celebration is a surprise item featuring all six players.

Marlos Nobre Desafio
Alberto Ginastera Piano Sonata No.1, Op. 22
João Guilherme Ripper From My Window
Amy Beach Piano Quintet, Op. 67

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Presented by London-based music charity Poliphonia

TICKETS £10 - £20 | Concessions 25% off (limited availability)

BOOKINGS 020 3879 9555 | ticket.southbankcentre.co.uk/single/SYOS.aspx

MORE INFORMATION poliphonia.co.uk