Thanks very much :) to everyone who came to this afternoon. We are grateful to Katia Romero for preparing games for the children. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets for the raffle: £132.50 (Y) was raised and will go towards a fundraising campaign led by Laleena Naidoo for people in Baracoa who lost their houses during of Hurricane Matthew. Thanks to Laleena and Kinde Jorge Herrera Kindelán and for doing the raffle. Our goes gratitude to Javier La Rosa and Sambroso Noda for hosting the event. Laleena Naidoo crowfunding page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/BaracoaCuba
Cinco canciones con versos de Juana de Ibarbarou - Ernesto Lecuona
Amor, for soprano and piano - Yalil Guerra
Soledad - José María Vitier
Cordoba, Gitanerias, Malagueña - Ernesto Lecuona
Maria Belén Chacón - Rodrigo Prats
La comparsa - Ernesto Lecuona
A la antigua - Ernesto Lecuona
En tres por quatro - Ernesto Lecuona
Cecilia Valdez - Gonzalo Roig
This is the third benefit concert to raise money towards a project started by Eralys Fernandez to buy a concert piano in London and send it to the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán music school in Havana.
'He gave absolutely superb performances' - Music and Vision
'The high point of the evening was Ann Liebeck' - Vienna Kurier
The programme will feature songs and solo piano music by Ernesto Lecuona, Yalil Guerra, Rodrigo Prats, Gonzalo Roig, and Xavier Montsalvatge.
The brilliant young international multi-prize winning Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal will join opera singer Ann Liebeck in an exciting programme of songs and solo piano music by Cuba's answer to George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, and contemporary Cuban composer, Grammy winner Yalil Guerra.
Both performers have international careers in Europe, USA and South America. Liebeck has sung Tosca, Salome, Rusalka, Violetta and many roles in Mozart's operas all over Europe. She regularly gives recitals in major concert halls in the UK especially South American music and tango.
Marcos Madrigal recently released his solo piano CD recording CUBA Piano Works of Lecuona—available on Amazon—which has won a major prize in Paris. Liebeck and Madrigal have performed this programme together in Rome, Vienna, Oxford, National Concert Hall Dublin and at London's SouthBank Centre, Purcell Room at QEH. Liebeck has been performing tango in her stage show Violetta's Last Tango for the past two years in major London venues and released the CD of the show produced by Tango Siempre's Julian Rowlands in April 2016. Ann was also invited to lead opera workshops at the prestigious Institute Superior de Artes in Havana and Holguin in May 2016.
