'Canciones' to be Performed at the London Song Festival

In collaboration with the Iberian and Latin American Music Society (ILAMS), the Instituto Cervantes and Echoes Festival, the 2025 London Song Festival will feature a complete performance of Canciones on the 21st November, as part of the event Songs by Latin American Women Composers in a Festival edition dedicated entirely to female composers. The programme features Spanish soprano Ana Beard Fernández; Brazilian baritone Michel de Souza, percussionist Gillian McDonagh, and pianist Nigel Foster - also Director of the Festival.

The concert incorporates songs ranging in date from the 19th to 21st centuries, by composers from Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba, including all-time favourites such as Besame Mucho, Júrame, and Hasta la vista and more rarely-heard gems of Song. Covering subjects as diverse as food and drink, love and passion, temptation, life and death, the music will be interpreted by dancers, bringing a taste of the vitality, joy and passion of Latin America to an autumnal London evening.