On May 11th, the world celebrates the International Day Of Latin American & Iberian Art Song, an opportunity to show appreciation for art songs in Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan and highlight the composers, poets, and performers who have contributed to creating and preserving this important part of the world´s musical heritage.
Get ready to raise your voice and join in the celebration!
Mundoarts and the Barcelona Festival of Song are thrilled to announce a global concert that will unite singers worldwide.
To be a part of this musical extravaganza, all you need to do is share your passion for art songs in Spanish, Catalan, or Portuguese by sending in a video performance before May 8.
A distinguished panel of experts will select the 15 most outstanding interpretations to grace our online concert stage. It's not a competition; it's a chance to showcase your talents and express your love for art songs. It's all about celebrating the beautiful diversity of music.
But that's not all! The chosen singers will be part of the global concert and take center stage in a live Latin American and Iberian Art Song Podcast episode. And wait, there's more – the top two performers will receive a half scholarship to participate in the Barcelona Festival of Song 2024.
As a token of our appreciation, every participant will receive an exclusive one-time 20% discount promo code for scores and classes at Mundoarts.
So, let your voice soar, and let's make this celebration of music truly unforgettable!
Ready for the challenge? Sign up now!
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REWARDS
The Latin American and Iberian art song challenge is a unique opportunity for singers of all ages and voice types to learn and perform art song repertoire in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and the languages of Ibero America, including indigenous languages.
There will be special rewards for singers who submit songs in Portuguese, Catalan, and Indigenous languages and songs by women composers.
The top two performances will be awarded a half scholarship to participate in the Barcelona Festival of Song 2024, the go-to place to learn the history and interpretation of Latin American and Iberian art songs.
All participants will receive discounts on Mundoarts´s scores, books, classes, and CDs.
The top 15 performances will appear on the Global Online concert to celebrate the International Day of Latin American and Iberian Art Song, streamed on May 11th, 2024, simultaneously on FB, YouTube, and the Barcelona Festival sites.
After registering, you will be sent to a page explaining the video's characteristics you have to submit. In essence, it has to be a recent video specially done for this event. Videos recorded more than three months ago will not be accepted. Each video should have a short 30-second introduction of yourself and the piece—detailed information after registration.
PANEL OF EXPERTS
PATRICIA CAICEDO, M.D., PH.D.
Patricia Caicedo is a soprano and musicologist whose scholarship and performances center on Latin American and Iberian art song. She has released eleven albums and published numerous scholarly editions of scores and books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, the go-to history on its subject.
She is also an avid performer of these works, having performed all over the world in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song, which focuses on the performance and study of Latin American and Iberian art songs in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese.
She is the host of the podcast, Latin American and Iberian Art Song, in which she interviews composers and leading experts from across the world.
Patricia holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor’s degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. Patricia is an Executive Board Member of the International Music Council of UNESCO.
LENINE SANTOS, PH.D.
Born in Brasilia, Brasil, Lenine Santos is one of the best interpreters of the Brazilian art song of his generation. He received his doctorate in voice at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). His dissertation was about the Brazilian Art Song.
Lenine began his musical career at a very young age with the String Orchestra of SESI, studying violin. Later on, he entered the Brasília School of Music where he studied voice. Later on he studied with the well known singer Niza de Castro Tank.
Lenine has several recordings of Brazilian Art Song and is a stable member of the faculty of the Barcelona Festival of Song since 2012.
He is a professor of voice at the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro.
WALTER AARON CLARK, PH.D.
Prof. Clark’s specialty is the music of Spain and Latin America, and he is the founder/director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside.
He is the series editor for Oxford University Press’s Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music, editor-in-chief for the Ibero-American area of Grove Music Online, and he also serves on the editorial boards of Revista de Musicología, Monumentos de la música española, and Música em context.
He received his doctorate in musicology from UCLA (1992), where he wrote his dissertation under the guidance of the late Robert M. Stevenson.
He also holds performance degrees in classical guitar from the North Carolina School of the Arts (B.M.), where he studied with Jesús Silva and performed in a master class with Andrés Segovia; and the University of California, San Diego (M.A.), where he was a student of Pepe Romero.
NIKOS STAVLAS, PH.D
Born in Greece Nikos received a PhD in Piano Performance Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London under the supervision of Keith Potter and Andrew Zolinsky. His area of research is Ludwig van, a film and a musical composition on Beethoven by the Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel.
He has participated in several competitions and won, among others, two first prizes in Pan-Hellenic competitions as well as two second prizes in the G. Thymis Competition, Greece. He has appeared several times as a soloist with orchestras in Greece and Albania, and has given solo and chamber music recitals in Greece, Albania, Italy, Spain, Belgium, USA and the United Kingdom.
He is a member of the faculty of the Barcelona Fetival of Song since 2014. He has several recordings of Latin American and Catalan art song together with soprano Patricia Caicedo.