In another new work, written this year, Gilbert sets Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Villancico VI to music in "¡Víctor, Catarina!" for mezzo-soprano, flute, and strings, channeling Spanish and Mexican expressions of the Renaissance, reinterpretted. Gilbert will conduct.

More information about the concert:

Inspired by the Baroque consort (a family of instruments), The RAM Players and guests perform new works by RAM composers as well as this year’s call for scores winners. In honor of Joan Tower’s 80th birthday, the program will end with Rising, for Flute and String Quartet, a work she wrote for flutist Carol Wincence.

Program:

Seth Boustead: Songs of Perception: string quartet & soprano

Gilbert Galindo: Víctor, Catarina!*: mezzo soprano, flute, and string quintet

Nicolai Jacobsen: White Helmets as white as death: flute, violin, and viola**

Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Songs for a Winter’s Night: flute and cello**

Frances White: Centre Bridge (dark river): string quintet and recorded sound

Joan Tower: Rising: flute and string quartet

*World premiere

**2019 RAM Call for Scores Winners

General/Student/12 and under: $20/$15/Free

Friday Pass: $30.00

All Festival Pass: $120.00

All tickets also available at the door.