Music of the Americas

08/03/2026

This is it, the final En Casa video of our 2025–2026 season! 🌎 The honors here go to the Dúo Lázaro Morillas, who sent us this version of "El ceibo y el curupí" by Miguel Martínez, from Buenos Aires.

🇦🇷 The Argentine duo, featuring Gonzalo Lázaro and Virginia Morillas, are dedicated to Latin American guitar music, with a repertoire that includes their own arrangements as well as original compositions that straddle the divide between popular and academic music.

En Casa will return in the fall with a new slate of performances as part of Music of the Americas 2026–2027 season.

Many thanks to all of you for following, sharing, and especially showing our performers so much love and support.

08/02/2026

🇧🇷 From Brooklyn, Brazilian guitarist Octávio Deluchi is back with this arrangement of Chiquinha Gonzaga's "A guitarra."

Deluchi was born in São João del-Rei. He holds a doctorate from Stony Brook University and has premiered several contemporary works. An Augustine Strings artist, Deluchi is widely recognized for a stage presence described as both “captivating and dynamic.” He made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2022 and returned in 2025 for a tribute to Leo Brouwer.

A laureate of over 15 national and international competitions, including the IBLA Grand Prize, the Souza Lima Guitar Competition, and the Philadelphia International Music Festival, Deluchi continues to expand the reach of the Brazilian guitar. He recently joined the roster of the Grammy-winning label Kuarup with his latest album, Borogodó, placing him alongside historic names in Brazilian music.

07/31/2026

🇦🇷 Argentine guitarist Virginia Morillas sent us this version of Claudio Moscardini's "Milonga de un entrevero."

07/30/2026

07/30/2026

🇦🇷 Nicolás Perri is an Argentine guitarist and educator dedicated to Latin American repertoire. He sent us this version of “El cualunque,” is a work for solo guitar composed in 2000 by Walter Heinze (1943–2005), a native of Entre Ríos. The piece explores the language of Argentine folk music through a idiomatic and personal style.

Perri holds a master's in performance of 20th and 21st-century Latin American music from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. He has also studied with Eduardo Fernández, Eduardo Isaac, Juan Almada, and Norman Baroni and performed at venues across Argentina, including the Festival Guitarras del Mundo and Radio Nacional Clásica.

07/29/2026

🇧🇷 From Brooklyn, Brazilian guitarist Octávio Deluchi sent us this version of his arrangement of Chiquinha Gonzaga's "Ô abre alas!" (Make Way!)

🎼 Deluchi was born in São João del-Rei. He holds a doctorate from Stony Brook University and has premiered several contemporary works. An Augustine Strings artist, he made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2022 and returned in 2025 for a tribute to Leo Brouwer. A laureate of over 15 national and international competitions, including the IBLA Grand Prize, the Souza Lima Guitar Competition, and the Philadelphia International Music Festival, Deluchi continues to expand the reach of the Brazilian guitar. He recently joined the roster of the Grammy-winning label Kuarup with his latest album, Borogodó, placing him alongside historic names in Brazilian music.

🌉 Beyond the stage, Deluchi is a prolific scholar and influential cultural promoter. He recently published Chiquinha Gonzaga: Guitar Arrangements through Les Productions d’Oz (Canada) and founded the SERTÃO Americas platform to bridge artistic and pedagogical exchange between Brazil and the United States. Currently, he serves as the director of the Mostra de Violão da Lira Ceciliana and teaches undergraduates at Stony Brook University.

07/28/2026

🇦🇷 Martín Jerez is a musician, composer, and cultural producer born in Palpalá, in northwestern Argentina. His work draws upon Andean folklore while engaging with a contemporary sensibility, integrating tradition, sonic exploration, and a personal aesthetic. Trained at the Conservatorio Provincial in Jujuy, he continued his studies in Córdoba and Buenos Aires. His musical language reflects influences from Ricardo Vilca, Jaime Torres, and Cuchi Leguizamón, projecting an identity that oscillates between the acoustic and the experimental. Through projects like Xuxuy, he develops a poetics in which territory, memory, and modernity coexist in expressive balance.

From Buenos Aires, he sent us this video of his original song "El amarillo."

07/21/2026

🇪🇨 In his tireless quest for new sonic and symbolic languages, Ecuadorian multi-instrumentalist Curi Cachimuel creates memory and resistance, recounting the experiences of his Andean cultures. He also pays tribute to the transformative power of women—grandmothers, mothers, and daughters—who, through their daily labor and powerful voices, sustain and lead our collective struggles.

☀️ Inti Raymi, the great Sun Festival, resonates with songs, dances, and melodies that honor Mother Earth for the harvest and celebrate the power of the summer solstice. Music—the spiritual heart of this ancestral ceremony—accompanies the Kichwa peoples as they reconnect with their roots, keeping collective memory alive through the sound of instruments, voices, and the community's rhythm.

07/20/2026

Alma String Quartet made its solo United States and New York debut on our Music of the Americas stage with a program featuring music by Mozart, Brouwer, and other Cuban composers.

The Cuban quartet has developed a distinguished career in the field of chamber music, with a particular focus on contemporary interpretation and international collaboration. Since 2020, the ensemble has maintained an active collaboration with the Ediciones Espiral Eterna, founded by Leo Brouwer, performing and recording works written specifically for string quartet. These include Brouwer's String Quartet No. 5, the Two Preludes by Gershwin/Brouwer, the Guitar Quintets Nos. 1 and 2, and Baladas del Decameron Negro, in collaboration with guitarist Lazhar Cherouana (France–Switzerland).

This concert took place at Americas Society on February 5, 2026, at Americas Society at 680 Park Ave. During their inaugural U.S. tour, they also performed with the MalPaso Dance Company at the Joyce Theater alongside Aldo López-Gavilán.