Thursday, February 11, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
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Ensemble áltaVoz

Americas Society presents an entire program of exciting new music by the áltaVoz composers, performed by the JACK Quartet.

áltaVoz, described as “a group to watch” by New Music Connoisseur, is a group of five Latin American, cutting-edge composers living in United States and Europe who work together to organize concerts, lectures and workshops around the world.

Praised for its "powerhouse playing" by The Chicago Sun-Times and "extraordinary precision" by The Boston Globe, the JACK Quartet has quickly established a reputation for giving high-energy performances of today's most demanding works for string quartet.

Program:

Jorge Villavicencio Grossman (Brazil and Peru)	Cuarteto No. 3, Música fúnebre y nocturna
José Luis Hurtado (Mexico)	New work
Felipe Lara (Brazil)	Corde Vocale
Pedro Malpica (Peru)	New work
Mauricio Pauly (Costa Rica)	New work

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The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is presented with the generous support of MetLife Foundation. The Spring 2010 Music Program is also supported in part by The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, the Consulate General of Brazil in New York, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.


In-kind support is graciously provided by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Quintet of the Americas, and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. The Momenta Quartet's performance is made possible through the generous support of The Aaron Coplan Fund for New Music and Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund.