New Latin American Music for Solo Piano, with Joel Sachs, at Italian Academy (Site)
Thursday May 1, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE
As part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival—the citywide celebration of Latin culture in the United States—Joel Sachs presents a program of recently-composed music from Latin America.
Sachs, a Juilliard emeritus professor and legendary new-music maestro, brings a program that includes the world premiere of a sonata by Roberto Sierra written for Sachs, a work inspired by flamenco from the late Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne, a a now-classic piece by Tania Leon based on the music of her youth in Cuba, and the premiere of a new piece composed for Sachs by Mexican singer/composer Diana Syrse.
Seating is limited and first come, first served. Priority will be given to those who register in advance. Check-in begins 30 minutes before the event and early arrival is suggested.
This event is in-person only.
ABOUT THE PERFORMER
Joel Sachs is co-director and conductor of Continuum. He has conducted at major festivals throughout the world, has been music director for experimental operas, and performs extensively as a pianist. At Juilliard, where he’s been on faculty since 1970, Sachs conducted the New Juilliard Ensemble, a chamber orchestra for new music, and before his recent retirement directed the annual “Focus!” festival of new music.
He was also artistic director of Juilliard’s concerts at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Summergarden” festival. Other appearances include orchestra concerts in China, El Salvador, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and Ukraine, and residencies in Brazil. He can be heard on all Continuum CDs. He also recorded intercultural music of the Americas with Mexico City’s La Camerata de las Americas, and Icelandic music with the Reykjavik chamber orchestra Caput. He received Columbia University’s Alice M. Ditson Award, which is given to a conductor for service to American music. A Harvard graduate, he received the PhD at Columbia.
His biography of Henry Cowell, Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music, was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press.
This is the Academy’s fifth collaboration with Carnegie Hall; learn more about the earlier initiatives:
- Contemporary Music of the Weimar Republic
- La Serenissima: The Millenarian Venice
- Beethoven’s Literary Afterlife
- Emanuele Arciuli, piano