The Americas Vocal Ensemble, their Music Director Nelly Vuksic and pianist Cesar Vuksic will present "Crossing Cultures in the Americas," concerts with commentaries, on the following days and at the following locations:

Sunday, October 21, 2007 – 3 PM at the Queens Museum of Arts in the New York Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens. For information, call at 718-592-9700.

Monday, October 29 -–12:15 PM at LeFrak Concert Hall of Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. For information, call 718-997-3800.

Tuesday, October 30 – 8:00 PM, as part of the Classical Series at Saint Peter's Church, Citicorp Building, 619 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. For information, call 212-935-2200.

These concerts will feature works by the outstanding composers of our continent: Jorge Cordoba, Gerardo Dirie, Jacobo Ficher, Enrique Ubieta, Gunhild Glass, Matthew Harris, Astor Piazzolla, Pedro Belisario Perez and Eduardo Grau as well as music from the Colonial Period by Juan Perez Bocanegra (Bolivia) and Jose Cascante (Colombia).

This program reflects the different cultural encounters that have been taking place in the varied and rich musical expressions of the Americas from the Colonial period to the present. These "transformations" that takes place in music when "cultural encounters" occur and different cultures find each other, creating new forms by mutual influences.

Suggested donation for the October 30 concert is $20 and $15. The October 21 and 29 concerts are free and open to the public.

The Queens Concerts Series concerts are made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

The Americas Vocal Ensemble 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. Visit their webpage at http://www.americasvocalensemble.org/.

For more information about the Americas Vocal Ensemble, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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