The Americas Society presents works by Hilda Paredes, Marcos Balter, Melissa Vargas, Graciela Paraskevaidis, Paulo Raposo, and the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Tomás Gueglio

The centerpiece of the show will be the world premiere of Tomas Gueglio’s Canciones que el río murmura (Songs murmured by the river) for soprano Carrie Shaw and ensemble. In Gueglio’s latest work, the soprano’s plainchant-like voice entwines with microtonal electronics, forming a murmuring river that winds through pointillistic instrumental textures. Dal Niente will also give the North American premiere of Paulo Raposo’s blistering Sextet, which the ensemble first performed in São Paulo in 2022; Hilda Paredes’ Reencuentro for flute, clarinet, and cello, where three instruments layer subtly shifting motifs into a virtuosic sonic kaleidoscope; Marcos Balter’s haunting Ear, Skin, and Bone Riddles, first performed by the ensemble in 2014; a world premiere of Melissa Vargas Franco’s Como una primera meditación for soprano, and the piercing, hypnotic Libres en el sonido… by the late Uruguayan-Argentinian composer Graciela Paraskevaídis..

Program (* indicates world premiere)

Tomás Gueglio, Canciones que el río murmura* (2023)

Paulo Henrique Raposo, Sextet (2017/22)

Graciela Paraskevaídis, Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido (1997)

Hilda Paredes, Reencuentro (2013)

Marcos Balter, Ear, Skin and Bone Riddles (2010)

Melissa Vargas, Como una primera meditación for solo voice*, 2023