Latin American Music Center - LAMC

11/19/2025

“El sonido que seremos,” edited and published by Professor Sergio Ospina-Romero, brings together essays on Colombian music from a wide range of researchers. The volume explores genres from sacred and academic to popular, indigenous, and Afro-Colombian, showing how music reflects Colombia’s social, cultural, and political life.

Now on the Faculty Bookshelf! 📚 https://music.indiana.edu/faculty/bookshelf/El%20sonido%20que%20seremos-2025.html

11/17/2025

TONIGHT! Monday, Nov. 17 @ 8:00pm
Latin Jazz Ensemble – Wayne Wallace, director; Andy Miller, rhythm section coach
Musical Arts Center, Jacobs School of Music & LIVE@jacobs!

“Cubana Be-Cubana Bop” The Music of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo, Machito and his Afro-Cubans, Tito Puente, Charlie Parker, and Mario Bauzá.

For the full program: https://events.iu.edu/live/files/7185-202511172000mclatin-jazz-ensemblepdf

Live streamed at LIVE@Jacobs: https://liveatjacobs.music.indiana.edu/ #/

11/15/2025

Salón Latino Chamber Music Series:
Aurelio de la Vega Centennial Celebration Concert
Wednesday, November 19; 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Auer Hall, Jacobs School of Music & LIVE@jacobs!

A centennial celebration concert of the composer Aurelio de la Vega (1925-2022) featuring a broad range of works, including some of which have been rarely performed or never recorded.

The concert will count with the participation of Jack Allen (piano), Jose Campos (cello), Jackson Faulkner (alto saxophone), Diego Fernández Arraya (guitar), Luciana Giron Sheridan (soprano), José Hernández (violin), Aaron Lipsky (clarinet), Tatiana Morales (soprano), Carl Questad (piano), Thomas Shaw (cello), Kathleen Simunek (mezzo-soprano), Ben Tufte (piano), George Young (viola), Ai-ling (Lydia) Yu (piano), Dr. Aram Arakelyan (piano), and Dr. Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz (declaimer).

The repertoire will include “Asonante” (1985), La muerte de Pan (1948), Adramante (1985), Soliloquio (1950), El encuentro (1950), Leyenda del Ariel criollo (1953), Sound Clouds (1975), Andamar-Ramadna (1975), Antinomies (1967), and “La nostalgia de ese mar” (2005).

This event is free and open to the public.

Live-streamed at https://liveatjacobs.music.indiana.edu/ #/

11/14/2025

TODAY: Friday, November 14; 12:45pm – 1:45pm
Musicology Colloquium and Professional Development Series:
Dr. Belén Vega Pichaco, “Building Latin American Networks in the U.S.: The Agency of Cuban Composer Aurelio de la Vega (1925-2022)”

Simon Music Center Room 344, Jacobs School of Music
(SM344 is in the Simon Music Center, 3rd floor)

11/14/2025

Aurelio de la Vega Centennial Celebration
November 14–19, 2025

The festival will include a colloquium talk by Dr. Belén Vega Pichaco (visiting scholar from Universidad de la Rioja, Spain); an exhibit at the Cook Music Library featuring a number of personal items provided by the de la Vega family and from the LAMC Special Collections; and a concert in Auer Hall that will include some of the composer’s most challenging and inventive pieces.

Aurelio de la Vega (1925-2022) was a Cuban-American composer, lecturer, essayist, and poet. He wrote numerous works in many forms and media and, from the early 1960s, was an active force in the United States musical scene. A recipient of the coveted Friedheim Award by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a four-time Latin Grammy nominee, his music and aesthetic ideas have been discussed and analyzed extensively by critics and scholars in the United States and Latin America.

11/06/2025

🎶 Get ready for a night of irresistible Caribbean grooves! 🌴✨

Join the Latin American Ensemble, directed by Dr. Andy Miller, for an electrifying journey through Cuban and Puerto Rican rhythms from the deep roots of Palo and Rumba to the vibrant beats of Bomba, Salsa, and Plena! 💃🕺

Featuring the incredible guest artist Alberto “Beto” Torrens, this concert will light up your night with the sounds of legends like Eddie Palmieri, Cheo Feliciano, Rafael Cortijo, and more. 🎺🥁🔥

📆Saturday, Nov. 8, 8–10PM
📍MC066 -Jacobs School of Music
💲This event is free and open to everyone!

Come dance, sway, and celebrate the heartbeat of the Caribbean! 🌊🎵

11/03/2025

Latin American Ensemble – Dr. Andy Miller, director
Saturday, November 08; 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Musical Arts Center Room MC066, Jacobs School of Music
Featured Guest Performer: Alberto “Beto” Torrens

The Latin American Ensemble will perform and evening of music hailing from Cuba and Puerto Rico. The concert will highlight the percussion traditions of Cuba through the rhythms and songs of Palo and Rumba, led by guest artist Beto Torrens. Continuing to trace the influence of Bambula in the Caribbean, the ensemble will perform Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba songs set to the rhythms of Sicá, Yubá, Holandé, and Seis Corrido. The concert will end with a set of salsa and plena music featuring music by Cuban and Puerto Rican icons such as Eddie Palmieri, Cheo Feliciano, Orquesta Aragón, Rafael Cortijo, and Ismael Rivera.

10/21/2025

Celebrate Celia Cruz with us today!
Tuesday, Oct. 21st

10/20/2025

10/20/2025

Latin Jazz Ensemble at Buskirk-Chumley Theater
Monday, Oct. 20 @ 7:30pm

Also live streamed via Live at Jacobs
https://liveatjacobs.music.indiana.edu/ #/

The Latin Jazz Ensemble is back at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater next Monday October 20! Led by Grammy-nominated director Wayne Wallace and rhythm section coach Andy Miller, these performances are always a party. 🎉 Plus, it's FREE! Bring your dancing shoes and we'll see you there!

09/29/2025

Salón Latino Chamber Music Series - Raimundo Nilton: Brazilian Violin
Wednesday, October 01; 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Auer Hall, Jacobs School of Music & LIVE@jacobs!
Featuring solo works by Hermeto Pascoal (1936–2025) Luiz Gonzaga (1912–1989) Raimundo Nilton (b. 1958) Adriano Giffoni (b. 1959)

A native of Coari, Amazonas, Violinist and Music Educator Raimundo Nilton holds a Master of Music in Jazz Studies Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, under the guidance of pianist and arranger David Loeb and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Brasília. He studied jazz and blues improvisation with John Blake, Matt Glaser, and Darol Anger, and studied free improvisation with Eugene Friesen at Berklee College of Music in Boston (1997). From June 1986 to July 2019, he was a tenured violin teacher at CEP (Brasília School of Music). He has taught and performed in several summer courses in Brazil and the United States, always promoting Brazilian music. His first CD, entitled "Violinando," sponsored by the Villa Lobos Foundation of the Manaus City Hall's Department of Culture, showcases various styles of Brazilian music, such as xote, baião, frevo, quadrilha, choro, samba, and bossa nova. It includes compositions by composers from Amazonas, Adriano Giffoni, and the great Hamilton de Holanda. His second CD, entitled "Dez Dias da Obra de Hermeto Pascoal," sponsored by the FAC (Art and Culture Support Fund) of the Federal District's Department of Culture, contains 10 songs from the "Calendar do Som" book. With an intention to expand the violin's repertoire beyond traditional classical music, he has been organizing material on various styles of Brazilian popular music to be published for violin and related instruments. youtube.com/user/rniltonviolin

LIVE@jacobs: https://liveatjacobs.music.indiana.edu/ #/

09/04/2025

TODAY! 6-7pm! @ Fine Arts Plaza! 🖼️💃🏻
Celia Cruz’s Music and Dance Demonstration. Featuring: La Salsoteca, Beatrice Capote, and Paso a Paso !! 🙌