The concert was scheduled to celebrate the release of a CD featuring Latin American Music Recording Competition winners.
Paul Borg, coordinator at the LAMC and adjunct professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music, called the CD “Minha Terra: A Collection of Brazilian Chamber Songs Based on Folk and Love Themes.”
“Minha Terra” means “my country” or “my land” in ?Portuguese.
For Borg, what sets this year apart are the performers.
Bruno Sandes, a baritone, recently performed in IU Opera and Ballet’s “Italian Girl in ?Algiers.”
Borg said Sandes’ performance will make the event mostly because of the singer’s acting background.
“He engages the audience,” he said. “It’s as if he is singing right at you.”
The concert will feature students and faculty from the Jacobs School of Music, according to Jacobs release. They will perform a Latin American chamber music program.
Participants include recent winners of the Latin American Music Recording Competition, baritone Bruno Sandes and pianist Hanmo Qian.
Violist Gabriel Polycarpo, clarinetist Tiago Delgado, pianist Kaitlin Morton and violinist María José Romero Borg are set to play as well.
Attendees of the event will have something to look forward to aside from chamber music, Borg said.
“We’re gonna have a drawing to give away CDs,” he said.
Borg said the concert will last about an hour.
The majority of performers will be students, two of whom are competition winners. This year’s concert theme is Brazilian music.
The program also includes compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos, José Siqueira and Edino Krieger of Brazil and Roque Cordero of Panama, according to the release.
Most music will be new compositions, Borg said.
As for the type of music people will hear, he referenced a song he will play, added that there will be a mix of upbeat and somber music.
“It has a little bit of both,” he said.
