Concert 6: Songs by Latin American Women Composers - Friday 21st November, 7pm
Ana Beard Fernandez - soprano
Michel de Souza - baritone
Nigel Foster - piano
Gillian McDonagh - percussion

In collaboration with the Iberian and Latin American Music Society (ILAMS), the Instituto Cervantes and the Echoes Festival, this concert incorporates songs ranging in date from the 19th to 21st centuries, by composers from Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba, including all-time favourites such as Besame Mucho, Júrame, and Hasta la vista and more rarely-heard gems of Song. Covering subjects as diverse as food and drink, love and passion, temptation, life and death, the music will be interpreted by dancers, bringing a taste of the vitality, joy and passion of Latin America to an autumnal London evening.

British-Spanish soprano Ana Beard Fernandez has sung at Wigmore Hall, the Royal Opera House Coven Garden (Linbury Theatre), Longborough Festival Opera and Opéra de Lille. She has given concerts in Stockholm, Berlin, Stuttgart and Freiburg and at the Festival de la Gente in France.
Brazilian baritone Michel de Souza won the Maria Callas Vocal Competition in São Paulo and was a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House Covent Garde, He has sung with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Proms, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the L’Orchestre National de Lyon.
Nigel Foster has performed at Wigmore Hall, the South Bank Centre, Barbican Centre, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Crush Bar) and across Europe as well as in North and South America, Japan, Malaysia and New Zealand, playing for singers including Roderick Williams, Dame Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence, Nadine Benjamin, Kate Royal, Lotte Betts-Dean, James Gilchrist, Julien Van Mellaerts, Ashley Riches, Simon Wallfisch, Louise Winter, and Elizabeth Llewellyn.