Last updated: June 12, 2009

• Cuban-American composer Aurelio de la Vega wins the Cintas Foundation's Warren Lifetime Achievement Prize.
• Vespers, for a change of pace By Peter Jacobi, HeraldTimes Reviewer. Bloomington, IN.
• Latin American Popular Music Ensemble: "Scent of Maria" concert, Thursday, March 26,Buskirk-Chumley Theater
• ONIX Ensamble and the Latin American Music Center announce the winner of the First InterCultural Composition Competition
• Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet at IU (Feb. 10, 2009)
• Roque Cordero (1917-2008)
• Harold Gramatges (1918-2008)
• Twelfth Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America (Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2009).
• Singing for Social Justice, 1968' Legacy in the Americas
• Flamenco guitarists Adam del Monte will be joining the IU Latin American Popular Music Ensemble
• Recital with guest Brazilian trombonist Alciomar Oliveira

• ¡Unicamente la Verdad! (Only the Truth!)
  by Composer Gabriela Ortiz & Artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres
  featuring the IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
  Conductor: Carmen Helena Téllez
  Stage Director: Chía Patiño
  Production & Responsive Visuals Designer: Konstantinos Mavromichalis
  Rodrigo Sigal and Francisco Colasanto: Sound Designers
  August 8, 8 p.m. | Buskirk-Chumley Theater
  August 9, 8 p.m. | Buskirk-Chumley Theater
• Opera article and press review: 'Unicamente la Verdad!'
• An interview with Gabriela Ortiz about ¡Unicamente la verdad! is here.

• Chicago Latino Composers Festival continues with great success at the Ravinia Festival. Hear the radio interview. Download the review of Elbio Barilari's Lincolniana.
  
  
• COMPOSING THE NEW WORKS FOR VOICE:
  Workshop with Sven-David Sandström
  July 29—August 2, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
  
  
• BORDERLAND IMAGINATIONS: Contemporary Opera, Media, and New Artistic Expressions
  August 8 and 9, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Sweeney Hall

• NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE - David Dzubay, Director; Gabriela Ortiz, Guest Composer
  
  
• Continuum presents a concert with Latin American Music in New York. More info here.
  
  
•  LATIN GRAMMY-NOMINEE JORGE GOMEZ PERFORMS WITH THE LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC ENSEMBLE
  The Latin American Popular Music Ensemble will perform in Auer Hall on April 10, 2008 at 8:00 p.m with special guest Jorge Gomez, the much acclaimed salsa, timba and Latin jazz pianist normally performing around the world with his group Tiempo Libre, "...the top timba group in the United States," according to The Denver Post. They will also be joined by faculty bassist Jeremy Allen. In this concert, Gomez will perform with LAPME, as part of his residency with the group, coaching them on the featured styles.  The program will include Gomez' own compositions, along with other numbers in the most beloved Latin genres, including Merengue, Tango Nuevo, Rumba, and more, by composers Pablo Ziegler, Elvis Crespo, Eddy Herrera  , Justin Elie, Luiz Bonfá, and Leo Brouwer
  

  
  

  DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 10
  TIME: 8 PM
  PLACE: AUER HALL
  

  FREE TO THE PUBLIC
  Links:
  tiempolibremusic.com
  
  

• Concurse de composición de Danzas de 2008
  
  
• Workshop with MICHEL CAMILO on Friday March 21 from 2:30-3:45 p.m. in MC 040 (basement of MAC, and on Saturday March 22 from 3 - 5 p.m., place TBA
• MICHEL CAMILO AND LEONARD SLATKIN AT IU,
  performing Ginastera's Malambo and Camilo's own Piano Concerto.
  Sunday March 23, 8pm, IU Auditorium
  For more information http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/7672.html
• Notice of Faculty Vacancy - Assistant Director, Latin American Music Center
• Former guitar doctoral student Marcos Cavalcante has recently been appointed music program director of the Center for the Fine Arts, Northern New Mexico College, in Espanola, NM.
• Jane Bunnett at IU. She will present a concert, workshop and panel discussion focusing on the music of Cuba. Tuesday, February 26, 7 & 9 pm at the John Waldron Arts Center. Click here to see the advertisement.
• Silence and Explosion - A Salon Event on Politics and the Arts - Saturday, 23 February 2008, 2:30-5:00pm, Sweeney Hall M015, Simon Music Building. (This event is part of Arts Week 2008, co-sponsored by the LAMC)
• 2008 Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America (Jan. 26th-27th, 2008). Click here to access the competition's results.
• The Latin American Popular Music Ensemble (LAPME) presents "From the Mountains and the Plains: Music from Colombia and Venezuela" with guitarist Aquiles Báez and percussionist/pianist Gonzalo Grau in Auer Hall on Sunday, November 18, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. (Please note different time than previously announced!).
• The LAMC and LAPME, in coorporation with the IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and IU Chamber Orchestra perform Osvaldo Golijov's AINADAMAR. Guitarist Adam del Monte and percussionist Gonzalo Grau coach our students for this performance (October 11th-12th, 2007)
• Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th to October 15th, 2007). "Hispanic Music Faculty and Staff at IU: Remembering the Past & Honoring the Present"
• Masterclasses in flamenco and classical guitar with Adam del Monte (September 1st-2nd, 2007)
• Erick Carballo and Espen Jensen join the LAMC as Adjunct Lecturers for the Academic Year 2007-2008.
• Carballo wins IU-wide Kinsley award for Ph.D. dissertation (April 2007)
• A Night of New Tango: Ziegler, Cohen, Gillespie and the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble (April 8th, 2007)
• Guest Recital: Trombones de Costa Rica (March 23rd, 2007)
• 2007 Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America: guidelines and competition program (January 27th-28th, 2007)

Other Latin American Music Events & News

• Call for Papers and Compositions
• Silvio Barbato - 1959-2009 Brazilian conductor was one the victims of the Air France flight that disappeared Sunday May 31st between Rio de Janeiro and Paris.
• Latin American Classical Music: Online Spanish Version OPEN
• Ricardo Lorenz was the 2008 recipient of the American Bandmasters Association/University of Florida Commission Award
• Three sopranos come out on top at Metropolitan Opera National Council's Gulf Coast regional auditions Carelle Flores, former IU student and GA at the LAMC
• Nuevo Latino Festival 2009, Celebrating the New Music of Latin America
• Intercultural ONIX International Composition Competition (Spanish)
• Concert by the winners of the Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America Instituto Cervantes - Chicago, ILL
• NE/BAM Brazilian Composers' Competition
• 08 Chicago Latino Music Festival
• Primer Concurso Internacional de Composición Intercultural.
• Mauricio Kagel, 76, Writer of Avant-Garde Music, Is Dead
• BLAS: el hombre y su leyenda - September 24th Un documental de Grupo INTERDÍS. Auditorio Gerardo Molina, 6:00 pm Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín.
• The Blackmore Trio received an award grant from the American Composers Forum Encore Program in the spring of 2007 allowing them to work closely with Chilean pianist and composer Alfonso Montecino. Their upcoming performances will take place in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee.
• 4th International Competition for Young Guitarists Compensar 2008
• Osvaldo Golijov: a mission of creative anarchy
• I love it when music brings people to blows,Osvaldo Golijov has been called the saviour of classical music, but detractors say his eclecticism is a disaster. Laura Barnett meets the composer
• Experiencing Villa-Lobos - An International Festival, March 27-29, 2008 at Virginia Commonwealth University

  http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/artweb/music/villa_lobos/index.html

• Residencias iberoamericanas en México
• Música académica contemporánea en Colombia desde el final de los ochenta by Rodolfo Acosta
• Henrique de Curitiba(1934-2008), important Brazilian composer, dies on Feb18 in Brazil.
• La Ciudad Celeste and other choral works by Juan Orrego-Salas is already available online for purchase at Indiana University Market Place!
• Première of Ricardo Lorenz's Rumba sinfónica for Cuban Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, written in collaboration with Tiempo Libre's Jorge Gomez, and co-commissioned by Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Festival of the Arts BOCA, and Ravinia Festival. Click here for more!
• The Otto Mayer-Serra Prize for Music Research (English)
• Premio internacional Otto Mayer-Serra de investigación musical (Spanish)
• Concert Sept. 16 to Honor Roque Cordero's 90th Birthday
• Sons novos para a voz a new book by Jorge Antunes
• Alberto Ginastera, Le(s) style(s) d’un compositeur argentin new book about the Argentinian composer.
• Dos conciertos de música antigua latinoamericana (16, 23 de noviembre, Francia)
• "De Segovia a Yupanqui ...." 25 años de radio. (Argentina: mayo 8-29, 2007)
• Chilean Roberto Díaz to lead Curtis Institute of Music (May 2, 2007) nytimes: login required.
• IV Congreso chileno de musicología (enero 10-13, 2007)
• Pacific Symphony - American Composers Festival: Los Sonidos de México (April 15-29, 2007)

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