Hispanic Women Composers #3: Teresa Carreño

  • Music
  • New York
  • Thu, May 10, 2018
  • 6:15 pm
Hispanic Women Composers #3: Teresa Carreño

The third and last concert of the Hispanic Women Composers series explores the life and accomplishments of Venezuelan-born virtuoso pianist, composer, and singer Teresa Carreño.

The mercurial figure of Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) is brought to vivid life in this costumed recital. Child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, composer, and opera singer, Venezuelan-born Carreño was a fiercely independent creative spirit who made her brilliant way in a man’s world for eight decades.

The program, entitled I am Carreño: The Extraordinary Life of Teresa Carreño, features compositions she played, sang and championed, works by her teachers and mentors, works she composed for voice, for violin as well as a generous sampling of her virtuosic compositions for solo piano –animated by the virtuoso pianist Isabel Pérez Dobarro, mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, bass-baritone Robert Osborne, and violinist Stephanie Chase. Carreño’s own words, along with those of her colleagues, critics, mentors, and students, provide a narrative thread showcasing her multi-faceted career within the international musical milieu of her times. This event draws from manuscripts housed in Vassar College’s Special Collection and marks the 2017 centennial of her death.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters, 633 W 155th St, New York, NY 10032

Admission

Doors open at 6:15 pm; lecture at 6:30 pm; concert at 7 pm. Free, RSVP at [email protected]

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Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Credits

Image: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Mrs. Virginie M. Swift, 1900

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