Composer

The Sphinx Virtuosi, a dynamic self-conducted chamber orchestra comprised of 18 accomplished Black and Latinx artists, returns to CAMA with a program titled Visions of Peace. Featuring acclaimed violinist Randall Goosby, the concert explores themes of resilience, peace, and shared humanity through a diverse range of musical voices. The Sphinx Virtuosi are celebrated for their “immeasurable power, unwavering command, and soulful beauty” (The Washington Post) and their commitment to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts.

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Sphinx Virtuosi

Lobero Theatre

In a unique convergence of musical voices, this program beckons us into a realm where music becomes an emissary of peace and unity. On this journey, we hope to lift every voice and remember our complex history while looking toward our shared journey toward a brighter tomorrow. We explore peace while remembering the conflict of past and present and recognizing the repeated history and the resilience of the human spirit. From William Grant Still, celebrated as the “Dean of African American Composers,” to José White's stirring Cuban melodies, every note resonates with our collective aspirations for harmony and understanding without borders. This is a collection of new voices, those that have already shaped our canon and those that we hope will continue to be celebrated long after our time together. As Alberto Ginastera's Concerto for Strings takes us toward a triumphant crescendo, you will join us in a jubilant celebration of the human spirit's indomitable resilience and our unwavering commitment to the pursuit of peace. We reflect on themes of war, anguish, and loss through Ruben Rengel's setting of Prokofiev's "Stalingrad" Sonata. Jessie Montgomery's music helps us transcend boundaries and borders, while our vision for shared humanity is brought together through Quenton Blache's title composition.

Sphinx Virtuosi with Randall Goosby

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

The Sphinx Virtuosi are an inspiring self-conducted chamber orchestra that transforms lives through the power of music. Comprised of 18 Black and Latino artists who reflect the highest level of musicianship in America, the ensemble expands the breadth of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and community engagement.

Visions of Peace, the ensemble’s UGA Presents debut program, imagines a world where music serves as an emissary of reconciliation and unity. From William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin — featuring the celebrated young violinist Randall Goosby — to José White’s stirring Cuban melodies, to Ruben Rengel’s setting of Prokofiev’s “Stalingrad” Sonata, this collection of new and familiar voices transcends borders in a jubilant celebration of the human spirit.

Sphinx Virtuosi : Randall Goosby, violin

University of Georgia Performing Arts Center

The Virtuosi's latest program, Visions of Peace is a collection of new voices—those that have already shaped the canon and those that will continue to be celebrated long after our time together. The concert includes the Suite for Violin and Piano (arr. for cello and string orchestra by Randall Goosby), featuring the acclaimed young cellist Sterling Elliott.

Sphinx Virtuosi with Sterling Elliott, cello

Emory University

Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti makes her UMS debut with an ensemble featuring guitar, accordion, and cello performing arrangements of popular classical works. As a sought-after and influential musician and the Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Benedetti is an unabashed advocate for Western classical music, popularizing the genre with a new generation and captivating audiences with her sumptuous tone and top-notch playing.

Nicola Benedetti, violin

University of Michigan

They’re two of opera’s hottest rising stars. Bolivian soprano Shelén Hughes Camacho and American baritone Joseph Parrish have impressed audiences and competition juries around the globe, with their “elegance and eloquence” (Seen and Heard International) and “arresting stage presence” (Opera News). Now, these two young vocalists make their Cliburn Concerts debut with an eclectic program spanning spirituals, opera, art song, musical theater, and pop music, accompanied by pianist Amir Farid. Don’t miss this one-night performance by these extraordinary young artists —partners on and off the stage— on the brink of stardom. 

Shelén Hughes Camacho, soprano + Joseph Parrish, baritone

Kimbell Art Museum

Join “the country’s favourite violinist”, Nicola Benedetti, for a unique and personal concert, and her first solo headline appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in over a decade.

Nicola Benedetti

Royal Albert Hall

Celebrate Día de Muertos with the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony in a night filled with vibrant rhythms, colorful melodies, and music that honors life, memory, and tradition.

Orchestra Concert 2 - Day of the Dead

First Church OKC

SHCS’s 60th season opens with the pioneering Sphinx Virtuosi, an 18-member self-conducted string orchestra and flagship ensemble of the Sphinx Organization. With “immeasurable power, unwavering command, and soulful beauty” (The Washington Post) these masterful players make their Baltimore debut with a program devoted to peace and the resilience of the human spirit. Acclaimed young cellist Sterling Elliott joins as soloist for American composer’s William Grant Still’s Suite, inspired by Harlem Renaissance sculptures.

Sphinx Virtuosi (Baltimore Debut) Sterling Elliott, cello

Johns Hopkins University

Opening night belongs to the renowned Sphinx Virtuosi, which returns to PCMS for a fifth consecutive season, this time with the gifted young cellist Sterling Elliott as the featured soloist. Comprising 18 of the nation’s top Black and Latinx classical soloists, the “vibrant” and “rhapsodic” Virtuosi (New York Times) bring to PCMS a program titled Visions of Peace which offers a unique convergence of musical voices that usher us into a realm where music becomes an emissary of peace and unity. Sphinx writes: “We hope to lift every voice and remember our complex history while looking toward our shared journey as we face a brighter tomorrow. We explore peace while remembering the conflict of past and present and recognizing the repeated history and the resilience of the human spirit.”

Sphinx Virtuosi Sterling Elliott, cello

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The RSO begins the 2025/26 season with passionate rhythms of Spain and Russia. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, a vibrant celebration of Spanish folk music, showcases the colorful range of the orchestra, as the themes dance through the instrument families. Ponce’s Concierto del Sur features the romantic sounds of the classical guitar, performed by returning guest virtuoso Daniel Bolshoy. The concert powerfully concludes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, a sweeping journey of emotion, from its tragic and brooding opening to its triumphant finale.

Passionate Rhythms

Coronado Theatre

An evening of Latin music to end the season.

Cinco de Mayo

Washington University in St. Louis

The legendary Manuel Barrueco is internationally recognized as one of the most important guitarists of our time. His unique artistry has been continually described as that of a superb instrumentalist and a superior and elegant musician, possessing a seductive sound and uncommon lyrical gifts. During three decades of concertizing, he has performed across the United Sates and in the most important musical centers around the world.

MANUEL BARRUECO guitar

Sunset Center

Manuel Barrueco

Student Degree Recital: Alexandra Fitzgerald M.M. violin recital

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

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!

Orpheus & Pablo Sáinz-Villegas

Lafayette College

Guest Artists visit SFCM to share their expertise with student musicians.

Zoran Dukić, guitar

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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

An artist of “exceptional musicality” (La Sicilia, Italy), he has over thirty compact discs spanning repertoire from the Baroque to the 21st century to his credit and performed to critical acclaim in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. His efforts in promoting Mexican Music have resulted in appearances at major venues in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, Beijing, Oslo, Paris, Lisbon, Río de Janeiro, and Guayaquil, among others.

Mauricio Náder

California State University Fresno Concert Hall

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

This summer, enjoy the magic of the Curtis Recital Series from home with our summer broadcast series. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to enjoy never-before-broadcast performances every Wednesday at 6 p.m.

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

Young Artist Orchestras: Finale

Guilford College

Signature Performance: EMF Classical Guitar Summit

Temple Emanuel

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

Sounds of Diversity

560 Music Center

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. 

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

Conan Chang, violin

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Lisa An, violin

Jimi Wexler, guitar

Supporting young musicians is especially close to Anne-Sophie Mutter’s heart. To this end, she founded the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2008 and can now look back on an impressive roster of distinguished scholarship recipients, including Vilde Frang, Sergey Khachatryan, Daniel Müller-Schott, and Kian Soltani. Her latest discovery is Elias David Moncado, born in 2000: a German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist who won the Grand Prix and ten special prizes at the Karol Lipiński Competition in Poland, gave his first recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2025, and will release his debut album on the Warner Classics label in 2026. For this Lucerne debut, he will perform Maurice Ravel’s irresistible Violin Sonata, an American-inspired work with a “blue” movement at its center. Playing the “Ludwig, ex-Szigeti” Stradivari, he will also tackle high-virtuoso fare such as Franz Waxman’s finger-breaking Carmen Fantasie. And four more of Mutter’s protégés will also appear in this extraordinary debut concert, performing two brand-new pieces that Anne-Sophie Mutter commissioned especially for them to mark the 50th anniversary of her Lucerne stage debut — works now receiving their world premieres. For championing new music is another of this great virtuoso’s passions.

Composer

Manuel Ponce

Events

Upcoming events

May 17, 2026

Conan Chang, violin · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

May 26, 2026

Lisa An, violin · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Jun 5, 2026

Jimi Wexler, guitar · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Sep 3, 2026

Elias David Moncado | David Tobin | Ye-Eun Choi | Hwayoon Lee | Lionel Martin | Lauma Skride · Lucerne Festival

1 - 2 May, 2027

Pines of Rome · California Symphony

Past events

Mar 12, 2026

Sphinx Virtuosi · CAMA

Mar 12, 2026

Sphinx Virtuosi · Lobero Theatre

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