The Americas Vocal Ensemble, Nelly Vuksic, Music Director, will present a very special concert titled "Sounds of Latin America", on Tuesday, October 4 at 4:30 PM at St John's University Concert Hall, 8000 Utopia Parkway in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

This concert will present selections reflecting the richness of Latin America's musical heritage and will include works by such outstanding composers as Carlos Guastavino, Gunhild Glass, Vicente Emilio Sojo, Heitor Villa Lobos, Alberto Favero, Luis Antonio Escobar and others. The Concert will feature commentaries by pianist Cesar Vuksic about a number of the selections.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more concert information, please call (718) 261-4494. You can also get more information from the St. John's Events Calendar at http://new.stjohns.edu/events.sju.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.

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.

The Americas Vocal Ensemble made its debut at New York's Americas Society in 1982, and has performed throughout the northeast U.S. and South America. They present unique and innovative programs and have performed premieres of more than 100 contemporary works, including compositions by leading North and South American composers. AVE has been heard on National Public Radio, many New York stations and the Voice of America. They have also appeared on New York Public Television and the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications TV Network. Their latest CD "Canticas y Madrigales" has been recorded for 4Tay Records, and is available at http://www.classicalcds.net. They have also recorded for CBS, Opus 1, Premiere and North/South Consonance. 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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