Composer

Passion and Romance – You’ll find them both in the East Texas Symphony Orchestra’s 2024/2025 season opening night concert. Acclaimed pianist Arturo Nieto-Dorantes displays his virtuosic skills with Richard Lee and the ETSO in a performance of the Concierto Romantico by Manuel Ponce, the “father” of Mexican classical music. The concert also features Franz Liszt’s evocative Les Preludes and concludes with the vibrant Symphony No. 7 of Ludwig van Beethoven, which the composer himself thought was one of his best works. This trio of pieces provides a fitting celebration to launch the new season.

¡fiesta!

The University of Texas at Tyler

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Broadcast: Guitar Studio Recital

Curtis Institute of Music

From pleasing to provocative, intellectual to insouciant, this program sheds light on the many facets of 20th-century Mexican and Argentinian classical compositions. Feel the passion and intensity of the tango in Piazzola’s renowned “Seasons”, juxtaposed with the exhilarating and profound string quartet “Música de Feria” by Revueltas. The program also features the graceful compositions of Manuel Ponce, offering a glimpse into the elegant charm of his musical creations. Works by 20th-century composers Alberto Ginastera (Argentina) and Mario Lavista (Mexico) top off an exciting and varied program.

Mexico and Argentina

Hanna Boys Center

Mayuko Kamio had made her concerto debut in Tokyo at the age of ten under the baton of Charles Dutoit, in a concert broadcast on NHK television. Since then, she has appeared as soloist with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich with Mstislav Rostropovich, NHK Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta.

Mayuko Kamio, violin & Noreen Polera, piano

Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Lesher Center for the Arts

WMP’s electrifying season finale ‘Music of the Americas’ features a splendid array of music from North, Central and South America. Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón’s (currently based in Brooklyn, New York) work has been described as “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative". Her piece Tornasol (Spanish for sunflower) is a work that focuses on the vibrancy of color and how it changes through scientific experimentation, all portrayed in various sections of the orchestra. In contrast, guest artist Colin Davin will perform Concierto del Sur, a masterpiece for guitar and orchestra by Mexican composer Manuel Ponce. The second half of the program includes music that is lively, rhythmic, and exciting. El Salón México by Aaron Copland depicts scenes and imagery from his experience at a popular dance hall in Mexico City. Four Dance Episodes from Alberto Ginastera’s ballet La Estancia incorporates Argentinian folk music that represent dance, character, and settings of life on the ranch. We conclude the program with Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez – a seductive, yet melancholy and irresistible ballroom dance inspired by the Cuban Habanera performed by full orchestra.

Music of the Americas

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial

Jonathan Rodríguez Ortega, Guitar – Masters Recital

University of Arizona

A passionate showcase of Hispanic orchestral music, featuring virtuosic fireworks by your ESO! Conducted by Enrico Lopez-Yañez, this spicy program includes Lucia, El Cumbanchero, Bésame Mucho, Granada, and Libertango, plus music from Bizet’s Carmen Suite. Your heart will dance along as your ESO takes you to South America.

Latin Fire

Winspear Centre

Spanish Guitar features two women performers and a forgotten gem from the early-twentieth century. Mabel Millán performs Manuel Ponce’s Concierto Del Sur, and flamenco dancer Tania Tandias accompanies the two opening works. Ernesto Halffter’s Sinfonietta of 1925 is a forgotten gem for chamber orchestra.

Spanish Guitar

Overture Center for the Arts

Celebrated Mexican composer Manuel Ponce is recognized the world over as a pivotal figure in the revival of classical guitar repertoire. Ponce’s music has found an easy place in modern classical repertoire for its abundant melodies, remarkable technical flourishes, and use of Mexican folk idioms. Working in a sympathetic manner, composers Pablo Borras (Argentina) and Clarice Assad (Brazil) combine musical elements drawn from their respective homelands, finding inspiration in popular musical styles mixed with contemporary compositional techniques. The program is anchored by the panoramic Suite for Two Cellos and Two Guitarras by Mexican composer Samuel Zyman. 

Strings & Hammers

Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston

Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study. 

Guitar Department Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Voice Department Recital: Latin American Song

Study concert with guitar students under Jesper Sivebæk, Per Pålsson, and Henrik Bay Hansen

Study concert with guitar students

The Studio Hall

Masterworks II will be filled with Mediterranean flair, passionate music, and momentos sin respiración (moments of breathlessness). G. Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville, the opening to that most famous comedic opera, uses masterful storytelling and music to bring to life the magic of Spain. It’s a wonderful way to begin this performance.

Masterworks II: Pepe Plays Ponce

Maryland Hall

Multifaceted artist and scholar Patricia Caicedo, a world-renowned expert in Latin American and Iberian art songs, will lead a master class for students of the Voice Department at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Patricia Caicedo Master Class

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

RCO joyfully celebrates Hispanic Heritage month with music by celebrated Venezuelan pianist, Teresa Carreño, Spanish Basque composer Juan Crisótomo Arriaga who tragically died at the age of 20, and a concerto by the founding father of 20th century Mexican music, Manuel Poncé, featuring Grammy-nominated guitarist, Mak Grgić.

Alegría

University of Nevada

The fiery sabor of Latin America comes to Denver at ¡Fiesta!, where vibrant melodies and passionate beats will sweep you off your feet. Maestro Lawrence Golan helms the baton and the violin, conducting and performing a solo in Manuel Ponce’s magical Estrellita. Plus, we’re joined by the remarkable pianist and el alma de la fiesta Fabio Witkowski as we embark on a celebración that traverses the heart-pounding rhythms of Márquez’s Conga del Fuego Nuevo and the soul-stirring melodies of Rodríguez’s Mosaico Mexicano. By the end of the night, you’ll have a hard time resisting asking the person next to you, “¿Quieres bailar?”

Fiesta

Central Presbyterian Church Denver

PC Morning Recital

The TSO is excited to once again be a part of the Consulate of Mexico in Tucson’s Mexican Independence Day Concert! This year’s concert will take place at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, and will also include a Mexican Fiesta featuring Mexican cuisine and crafts offered by local traditional and small businesses from 5–7:00 p.m. on the plaza.

Concert Tickets are only available directly from the Consulate of Mexico in Tucson. Tickets will be available for pickup at the Consulate September 1–14 from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Mexican Independence Day Concert

Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

The second installment of Festival of Song brings together the “meltingly beautiful” soprano Ailyn Pérez and the “well-wrought” tenor Robert Watson (San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News). These two formidable artists will appear in the Santa Fe Opera’s 2023 production of Dvořák’s Rusalka as Rusalka and The Prince. Join us for an afternoon of powerful artistry and song.

10th Anniversary of Festival of Song: Ailyn Pérez and Robert Watson

Scottish Rite Temple

By popular demand, Eliot Fisk opens the Festival with a solo recital for the Skaneateles Festival’s first-ever matinee concert. More details to come!

Season Preview: An Afternoon with Eliot Fisk

First Presbyterian Church

LSO’s season finale features LSO concertmaster Anton Miller in Yevhen Stankovych’s Ukranian Poem for solo violin and orchestra, and Manuel Ponce’s Violin Concerto, with Mexican dance elements integrated in the first movement’s framework and evident in the finale. LSO closes its season with Brahms’s poignant and luminous Symphony No. 2, Op. 73 in D major.

International Voices

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Paulina de la Fuente (B.M. '23) presents a voice recital.

Student Recital: Paulina de la Fuente, Voice

Boston Conservatory Associate Professor Paul Laraia presents an evening of works for viola.

Artistry in Action: Paul Laraia, Viola Faculty Recital

Curtis Institute of Music students perform over 100 free recitals during the semester, held on most Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. Admission requires advance registration and is complimentary.

Guitar Department

Boston Conservatory students of Latin American descent perform vocal works honoring their heritage.

Latin American Song Project

Join us on your lunch break! A part of our new choose-what-you-pay series, this concert features NY Phil musicians playing works by Dukov, Ponce, and Vaughan Williams in the intimate yet contemporary Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio — our brand-new, street-level event space.

NY Phil @ Noon

Lincoln Center

Students of Scott Nicholas’s Vocal/Piano Duo: Music of Spain and the Americas studio will be performing a vocal recital of select repertoire learned in class this semester.

Studio Recital: Vocal/Piano Duo—Music of Spain and the Americas

A recital of chamber music performed by violinist Andrea Del Aguila (G.P.D. '22).

Student Recital: Andrea del Aguila, Violin

44th Season Opening Concert

Mendocino College

Guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas channels the passion and flair of fellow Spaniard Andrés Segovia, the original star who premiered Joaquín Rodrigo’s debonair fantasy on old Spanish melodies. Cuban sensation Jorge Amado draws inspiration from the traditional music of his homeland in a new work for Orpheus. Evocative night music from Manuel Ponce and a vivid sketch of a skeleton from Gabriela Ortiz showcase the vibrant past and present of Mexican concert music. ¡Será una noche de fantasías!

Manuel Ponce

Composer

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 28, 2025

Orpheus & Pablo Sáinz-Villegas · Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Past events

Sep 21, 2024

¡fiesta! · East Texas Symphony Orchestra

Sep 18, 2024

Broadcast: Guitar Studio Recital · Curtis Institute of Music

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