The Americas Vocal Ensemble Presents "Sounds of South America" At LaGuardia
Community College's Little Theater -Tuesday, May 25 at 6:30 PM

The Americas Vocal Ensemble, Nelly Vuksic, Music Director, will present
a special concerts titled "Sounds of South America", on Tuesday, May 25
at 6:30 PM at the Little Theater of the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
of LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island
City, New York.

This concert will present music reflecting the richness of the cultural
and musical Latin American heritage from the Colonial Period to the
present.  The program will include vocal and instrumental works by
outstanding Latin American composers such as Piazzolla (Argentina)
Escobar (Colombia) Salazar (Mexico) and Villa Lobos (Brazil).

This concert is free and open to the public.  For directions and other
concert information, please call (718) 482-5151.  You can also find
directions to the school at
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/admission/visit_laguardia.aspx.

This concert is made possible with funds from the Decentralization
Program, a regrant program of New York State Council on the Arts,
administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.  This event is co-sponsored
by St. John's University's Committee on Latin American and Caribbean
Studies (CLACS).

The AVE was founded by its Director Nelly Vuksic as a professional chamber
group whose mission is to foster understanding among the people of the
Americas and to preserve the musical and cultural richness of the diverse
countries of North and South America.  It brings to its audiences a most
enjoyable and rarely performed repertory which encompasses the whole
range of the music of the Americas, from the colonial period to contemporary
times, through concerts, educational programs and recordings.

The Americas Vocal Ensemble made its debut at New York's Americas Society
in 1982, and has performed throughout the northeast U.S.  and South
America.  They present unique and innovative programs and have performed
premieres of more than 100 contemporary works, including compositions
by leading North and South American composers.  AVE has been heard on
National Public Radio, many New York stations and the Voice of America.
They have also appeared on New York Public Television and the Hispanic
Information and Telecommunications TV Network.  Their latest CD "Canticas
y Madrigales" has been recorded for 4Tay Records, whose CDs are available
at http://www.classicalcds.net.  They have also recorded for CBS, Opus
1, Premiere and North/South Consonance.  Visit their webpage at
http://www.americasvocalensemble.org/.

For more information about the Americas Vocal Ensemble, please contact
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask]

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com