HIGHLIGHTS OF NUESTROS SONIDOS FESTIVAL
EVENTS AT CARNEGIE HALL FROM
FEBRUARY THROUGH MAY 2025

Nine upcoming Nuestros sonidos festival concerts will be presented from February through May across the Hall’s venues—Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Zankel Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Resnick Education Wing.

Festival concerts at Carnegie Hall in February and March include:

• A Well-Being Concert featuring pianist Omar Sosa and kora player Seckou Keita, along with percussionist Gustavo Ovalles, hosted by Krista Tippett, National Humanities Medal recipient and Peabody Award–winning journalist, author, and radio host (Feb. 1, Zankel Hall Center Stage);
• Chilean jazz vocalist and Latin Grammy Award nominee Claudia Acuña in a program of treasures from the Latin American songbook (Feb. 7, Zankel Hall);
• One of the most exciting rising artists in Latin music today, Bogotá’s colorful Monsieur Periné makes their Zankel Hall debut with a program featuring an upbeat, swinging blend of Latin American and European flavors. These Colombian stars won the Latin Grammy 2023 Award for Best Alternative Album. Their smart, irresistible sound has struck a chord with diverse audiences worldwide (Feb. 22, Zankel Hall);
• American Composers Orchestra, under the baton of Tito Muñoz, in a program featuring music from various parts of Latin America highlighting its influence on jazz and classical music in the US, including a world premiere by Colombian harpist and composer Edmar Castañeda as well as a new work by Brazilian composer and singer Clarice Assad with interludes by Brazilian percussion ensemble Harlem Samba (Mar. 6, Zankel Hall).

Festival concerts at Carnegie Hall in April and May include:

• Celebrated Mexican pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in a special performance featuring genre-blending Afro-Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena; Cuban rapper, poet, and singer Telmary; and internationally renowned Haitian songstress and dancer Emeline Michel. (Apr. 11, Zankel Hall);
• Colombia’s legendary Grupo Niche in its Carnegie Hall debut. Based in Cali, Colombia, often called the “Salsa Capital of the World,” this band has been creating genuine classics since the late 1970s. Songs like “Cali Pachanguero,” “Una Aventura,” and “Gotas de Lluvia” are enduring staples on today’s concert stages, and the group’s most recent successes—including Latin Grammy® Awards for Best Salsa Album (2020 and 2023) and Best Latin Tropical Album (2021)—show their remarkable evolution and vitality (Apr. 17, Stern Auditorium / Perlman Stage);
• Nicaraguan-American soprano Gabriella Reyes in recital with pianist Andrés Sarre featuring works for voice and piano by various Latin American composers, including Alberto Ginastera, Carlos Guastavino, Ernani Braga, as well as arrangements of traditional Nicaraguan folk songs (Apr. 29, Weill Recital Hall);
• An intimate Well-Being Concert by Magos Herrera—hosted bilingually in Spanish and English—that invites audiences to experience the nurturing power of music and mindfulness in a unique communal setting (May 4, Resnick Education Wing);
• Grammy Award-winning Cuban sensations Cimafunk and La Tribu in the festival culminating performance at the Hall by the veritable Afro-Cuban rockstar (May 22, Zankel Hall).

Nuestros sonidos Festival Exhibition in the Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall:
Coinciding with Nuestros sonidos and running through May 2025, a festival-themed exhibition in the Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall features a selection of artifacts that represent some of the Latin American artists whose careers have included performances at Carnegie Hall, consequently impacting the cultural landscape of the world.

Highlights of items on display include: a flyer and autographed photo from a 1916 recital by Venezuelan pianist, singer, and composer Teresa Carreño—one of the most famous pianists of her time; an autographed photo from 1937 of Carlos Chávez—one of Mexico’s most important composers; a photo of Brazilians Antônio Carlos Jobim, Carlos Lyra, João Gilberto, Normando Santos, and Milton Banana whose 1962 concert is one of the most often asked-about events in the Hall’s history; a 1988 concert flyer of Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa—one of the most prominent folks singers from Latin America of her day—known as “the voice of the voiceless” who sang for human rights; and a flyer and autographed photo of the incomparable Cuban singer Celia Cruz who made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1963 and was one of the most popular Latin musicians of the 20th century.