The Latin American Music Center (LAMC) is proud to present A Salsa Night!, the center’s final concert of the 2012-2013 season, Thursday April 11 at 8pm, at the John Waldron Arts Center.

A Salsa Night! will feature the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble (LAPME) and Grammy Award Winner and guest artist Gonzalo Grau, who will be visiting the Jacobs School for the fourth time since 2006. Included in the concert will be a collection of Grau’s own compositions and arrangements.

Grau has performed with Aquiles Báez and Grammy Award Winner Adam del Monte, and was a guest performer in IU’s collegiate premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar, conducted by Carmen-Helena Téllez.

During the week of March 19 - 22, Grau was in residency with members of the Jacobs School’s Latin American Popular Music Ensemble (LAPME). A Salsa Night! reflects the collaboration between the LAPME and Grau during that time.

“This has been an exciting year for the LAMC,” reflects interim director
Erick Carballo. “In the fall the LAPME presented a concert of flamenco music with guest artist Adam del Monte and we launched our Chamber Music Series ‘Salón Latino.’ We have started to record the CD of cello solo music with Nicholas Mariscal (winner of the Third Annual Latin American Music Recording Competition,) our Latin Valentine Concert sold out, and now we are fortunate to have Gonzalo Grau working with our LAPME students. Mr. Grau is not only a great artist, but also a very knowledgeable musician. He has the ability to fluently perform the languages of classical, popular, and jazz musical styles, connecting these styles in a way that is very enriching for the students and practical for their emerging careers.”

About Gonzalo Grau

Grau began his musical studies at the age of five in Caracas, Venezuela, developing skills on many instruments from the viola da gamba to the flamenco cajón. He has recorded over fifty CDs with a diversity of styles and instruments, and working as performer, producer, and composer.

In 1995, Grau was awarded a scholarship at Berklee College of Music, where he graduated in 1998 Summa Cum Laude as a Piano Performance Major. Since then he has collaborated on many projects with ensembles in traditional and contemporary Latin styles. In addition to performing, Grau also produces and arranges for a variety of national and international artists such as Sally Potter Films, Mango Blue, Edwin Pabón, Brass Roots, Saxomanía, and his own band, La Clave Secreta (formerly known as “La Timba Loca”).

Grau has been part of vanguard Venezuelan projects such as Maroa, Aquiles Báez Group and the Gonzalo Grau Quintet, as well as the US-based Maria Schneider Orchestra (Grammy Winner 2005), and Latin jazz group Timbalaye. He performs flamenco as a multi-instrumentalist on percussion, cello and piano, and has worked with renowned artists from Spain and the US such as Antonio Granjero, La Tania, La Conja, Pedro Cortés, Jesus Montoya, Edwin Aparicio, Chuscales, Omayra Amaya, and Alejandro Granados.

Classically, Gonzalo has collaborated with Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov in the writing of La Pasión Según San Marcos (2001 Grammy Award nominee) and the opera Ainadamar (2007 Grammy Award winner). In 2005 he composed and orchestrated the work Nazareno for the Albuquerque Symphonic Orchestra, commissioned by the National Institute of Flamenco.

His contributions to theater and film include an arrangement of El Carretero for Sally Potter’s 2004 film Yes. He also composed the score for and musically directed Landscapes and Impressions by Craig Strong and Robert Castro, which was produced by the Santa Fe Opera.

The Latin American Music Center (LAMC) proudly presents its second chamber concert in the series “Salón Latino”  in Auer Hall on Thursday March 21 at 8:00pm.

The event features some of the finest present and former students along with faculty from the Jacobs School of Music performing an all-Latin American Chamber Music program. Participants include Kimberly Carballo, the Hammond Piano Duo, the AI5 Brass Quintet supervised by Prof. Carl Lenthe, Yi-Yun Loei, Diana Nixon, Anita Park, Yuriria Rodríguez, and Daniel Stein.

“The first Salón Latino concert focused on Latin American music students and honored the support that furthered their study at the renowned Jacobs School of Music. This second concert features collaboration among professors and students, regardless of nationality, in order to celebrate the rich musical heritage found in chamber music from Latin America,” said LAMC director a.i. Erick Carballo.

The concert program includes compositions and arrangements by Enrique Crespo (Uruguay), Leonardo Velázquez (Mexico), Astor Piazzolla (Argentina), Manuel Matarrita (Costa Rica), and IU Professor Emeritus Alfonso Montecino (Chile). The concert will take place in Auer Hall at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, 21 March 2013. Admission to the concert is free.

The Latin American Music Center (LAMC) is proud to announce its third annual Latin Valentine concert, a collaboration of the LAMC’s Latin American Popular Music Ensemble, the IU String Academy Chamber Orchestra, and Ivy Tech Community College.

“Una serenata mexicana” [A Mexican Serenade] will take place on February 14^th at 8:00pm at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. Come celebrate love and friendship listening to a romantic serenade with some of the most beautiful Mexican music of all times.

The LAMC is extremely happy to have as guest artists the IU-String Academy Chamber Orchestra, with guest conductor Daniel Stein. The LAPME will be directed by Guido Sánchez and Espen Jensen. This concert will feature all new arrangements by Mexican composer Francisco Cortés-Álvarez, Brazilian percussionist Bruno Cabrera, and harpist Liza Wallace from the United States. Also as special guests we will have tenor Francisco Ortega from Ecuador, baritone Bruno Sandes from Brazil, and soprano Yuri Rodriguez from Costa Rica.

This event is free and open to the public holding tickets. Tickets will be available to the public 2 hours before the event at the Waldron Arts Center.

For more more information music.indiana.edu/lamc

The Latin American Music Center is happy to announce the final round of its Third Annual Latin American Recording Competition, which will take place on Sunday, January 27, at 4 p.m. in Auer Hall. The event is free and open to the general public.

The following participants will continue to the final round:
- Huyen Khanh Do, pianist (student of Emile Naoumoff)
- Guitar Duo Villa, with Daniel Duarte and Rodrigo Almeida (students of Ernesto Bittetti)
- Nicholas Mariscal, cellist (student of Eric Kim)

The Latin American Music Center (LAMC), with the support of the Guillermo and Lucille Espinoza fund, proudly announces the Third Annual Latin American Music Recording Competition. The competition aims to promote the performance and knowledge of Latin American music, especially lesser known works of high caliber.

The CD "Eco de Violin" performed by LAMC recording competition winners Colin Sorgi, violin, and Jooeun Pak, piano.

The LAMC encourages all IU Jacobs School of Music students to explore the Latin American music repertory, and this competition will award the winner with the recording and full production of an album and a concert featuring the winner.

The LAMC will assist interested faculty members and students with repertory isues and with continued access to the contents of our Latin American Music collections in the Cook Music Library. Currently, the Cook Music Library possesses the largest collection of Latin American Music at the collegiate level, and the second largest collection of Latin American Music, after the Library of Congress, in the nation. Our collection contains materials from all periods and genres, and it is especially rich in music by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American composers.

Past winners include Colin Sorgi, violinist, and Joeun Pak, pianist, 2011.  Fanfare Magazine recently reviewed their album, specifically praising their choice of repertory: “Sorgi and Pak play with utter conviction, and seem to be having a grand time. This is a very successful collection in that it is well curated in terms of the mix of pieces, which are also all of high quality, sufficiently different yet also stylistically connected” (Robert Carl, Fanfare Magazine Oct. 2012). The winner of the second edition of the Recording Competition is Daniel Inamorato, pianist and student of Arnaldo Cohen. Daniel recently finished the recording sessions of Brazilian and Mexican piano music from the last hundred years. Thanks to the efforts of the LAMC’s production team, in collaboration with the Marketing and Publicity and Business offices of the Jacobs School of Music, CDs of winning competition performers are also available as digital downloads on CDBaby, Amazon, and other digital music distributors.

“We are very happy with the results of the first two editions of this competition, and are looking forward to receiving more creative proposals from the participants. These students are responsible for a strong performance of their program as well as for putting together a unified, creative, and fluid recording project,” expressed Erick Carballo, interim director of the LAMC.

The semifinal and final rounds of the Third Latin American Music Recording Competition will take place this January 26-27, 2013, in Auer Hall. The final round will be open to the public at 4:00pm on Jan. 27. Students interested in submitting a project and competing should consult the LAMC website for deadlines and the competition guidelines: http://music.indiana.edu/lamc

For more information you are welcome to contact the LAMC or you may visit its office located in M285 (Simon Building, second floor, inside the Cook Music library).

“A Night of Tango” with Grammy Award nominee, double bass player, arranger, and conductor Pablo Aslán in performance with the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble (LAPME), El Taller, and student members of the Jazz Department

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Bloomington, Ind. –The Latin American Music Center is proud to present Grammy Award nominee, double bass player, arranger, and conductor Pablo Aslan in an evening of tango classics and some of the latest developments in the evolution of this sultry Argentinean genre.  The evening will open with a milonga for tango dancers of all levels, as well as listeners, and will feature golden age tangos arranged in the style of masters such as Oswaldo Pugliese and Aníbal Troilo.  The second half will focus on Aslan’s music, taken from his Grammy-nominated recordings and combining tango and jazz in a contemporary fusion that goes beyond Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango achievements.  Aslan will be joined in performance by the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble (LAPME), El Taller, and student members of the Jazz Department, and will include musicians such as vocalist Yuriria Rodriguez, violinist Daniel Stein, guitarist Guido Sánchez-Portuguez, and pianist Jamaal Baptiste.  For Dr. Carmen-Helena Téllez, director of the Latin American Music Center, this tango night promises to transport the audience to the streets of Buenos Aires on the wings of some of the best tangos as performed by LAPME, which recently released their new CD Paisaje urbano.

What: “A Night of Tango” with Grammy Award nominee, double bass player, arranger, and conductor Pablo Aslan in performance with the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble (LAPME), El Taller, and student members of the Jazz Department
When: 9:30 p.m., Friday, April 20, 2012
Where: Serendipity Martini Bar, at the corner of 4th and College in downtown Bloomington

How Much: Free and open to public over 21

About Pablo Aslan

Born in Buenos Aires, he received his music education at University of California, Santa Cruz, CalArts, and UCLA, and in the 90’s in the clubs of New York. There he led several groups like New York Buenos Aires Connection, Avantango, and New York Tango Trio, which included musicians such as the late Thomas Chapin, pianist Ethan Iverson (now of The Bad Plus), drummer Kenny Wollesen, saxophonist Donny McCaslin, and bandoneonists Raul Jaurena and Tito Castro. More recently, he has worked with artists such as Yo Yo Ma, Lalo Schifrin, Pablo Ziegler, Osvaldo Golijov, Arturo O’Farrill, Emilio Solla, Fernando Otero, and Paquito D’Rivera.

His most recent recordings are “Tango Grill” (Zoho Music 2009 – Nominated for the 53rd Grammys and the 11th Latin Grammy Awards) and and a collaboration with Cuban reedman Paquito D’Rivera, “Tango Jazz”

Live at Jazz @ Lincoln Center” (Paquito Records 2010). Aslan and D’Rivera return to J@LC on November 11 and 12, 2011 to present a tribute to tango master Astor Piazzolla on the 90th anniversary of his birth. His upcoming album on Soundbrush Records is titled “Piazzolla in Brooklyn” and is a tribute to Aslan’s mentor.

More information about Pablo Aslan may be found at www.avantango.com

The Latin American Music Center is pleased to present “Historia de amor,” a concert of love songs. This voyage through the many facets of passion and romantic affection features the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble and El Taller, and showcases the music of Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, Gloria Estefan, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, and Silvio Rodríguez, among others. The story of love is told through the genres of nueva canción, salsa, and son cubano from Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, and Puerto Rico, including music by Spanish and Latino songwriters.

The romantic songs create a mosaic that gradually reveals the story of love: It starts with physical attraction and infatuation, passes through disillusion, resignation, and even tragedy, and finally arrives at the realization that this powerful emotion is an essential part of human life and that all experiences should be embraced, learned from, and assimilated. The underlying message is that only after the cycle is completed can the full concept of love be understood.

Carmen-Helena Téllez is LAPME’s artistic director, Espen Jensen its resident music director, and Guido Sánchez-Portuguez its main resident arranger. The concert will also feature arrangements by ensemble members Bruno Cabrera and Francisco Cortés-Álvarez. “Historia de amor” is an educational partnership of the LAMC with the Ivy Tech Community College.

What: “Historia de amor” with the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble and El Taller
Where: Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Time: 8 p.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public

Violinist Colin Sorgi, winner of the FIRST LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC RECORDING COMPETITION (2011), and pianist Jooeun Pak will perform this weekend at the Chicago Cultural Center at 3:00pm on Sunday, November 6th a concert of Spanish and Latin American works for the violin, as part of a series of concerts promoting the release of the CD Eco de Violín, produced by the LAMC.

IU musicians impressive at Latin American event

By Peter Jacobi H-T Reviewer | pjacobi@heraldt.com
October 22, 2011

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2011/10/22/scene.qp-4359091.sto

Thursday evening’s concert by the New Music Ensemble was designed as complement to “Cultural Counterpoints,” an international conference being held here to examine musical interactions between the United States and Latin America. The conference, in turn, was planned as a featured event helping to mark the 50th anniversary of Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center.

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