Music by Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera and by American/Canadian composer Ray Luedeke - for piano and for piano and voice with texts by Pablo Neruda and Silvina Ocampo, featuring:
Mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna
A Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists finalist, mezzo-soprano ANNA TONNA has been seen in such roles as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia 
with Opera Illinois and New Jersey State Opera, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana with New York Grand Opera and the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and Musetta in Leoncavallo’s La Boheme with New York Grand Opera, and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with the Teatro Nacional de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Recent performances include Jasón o La conquista del Vellocino (Brunetti) with Camerata Antonio Soler (Spain); Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under the baton of Pedro Halffter and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, a production of “Into the Fire” by Jake Heggie with New Camerata Opera.
Website: http://www.annatonna.com
tenor José Herredia
“I have heard the great Carlo Bergonzi in this role as well as Luciano Pavorati, but José Heredia makes for a trio of great Ricardo’s. The squillo his tone, the 
way he rides his voice to the upper chambers and the pleasing, plangent quality of his vocal palette, puts him in a position of rapid forward momentum toward international acclaim” - Nina Pantano, Brooklyn DiscoveryA 1st Prize Winner of the 2014 NJ Association of Verismo Opera International Vocal Competition, and a finalist/encouragement award winner of the Giulio Gari International Vocal Competition in 2015 and 2017, Dominican tenor José Heredia has thrilled audiences with his voice of “Pavarottian shimmer.” son of a Merengue singer, Heredia grew up surrounded by music.
Website: https://www.joseheredia.com
pianist Amber Scherer
Pianist Amber Scherer holds Bachelor’s degrees in Piano Performance and Psychology from Oberlin, a Master’s in Collaborative Piano from The Juilliard 
School, and began work on her DMA at Juilliard this fall. In 2024 she was a Schwab Vocal Rising Star at Caramoor and recently performed in Juilliard’s Pride Songbook and Eros & Co. Eros featured Scherer and four singers at Merkin Hall as Caramoor Fellows, as part of the New York Festival of Song. Scherer regularly performs with cellist Lydia Rhea. The pair enjoy exploring works by living and/or women composers in addition to the traditional repertoire, and their projects have included recording David Baker and Philip Lasser’s Cello Sonatas. This last October the duo peformed in Chicago on The Dame Myra Hess Concert series, broadcast on public radio.''
https://musicacademy.org/profile/amber-ginmi-scherer/
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) was Argentina's foremost 20th-century classical 
composer, renowned for blending indigenous Argentine folk elements (like those in his ballets Panambi & Estancia) with modern techniques, evolving from nationalism to serialism and other avant-garde styles, and eventually settling in Geneva due to political conflicts in Argentina, leaving a legacy of operas (Bomarzo) and concertos.
Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Ginastera
Raymond Luedeke (born 1944) is an American / Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. Praised for his idiosyncratic instrumental writing 
and for his orchestration, Luedeke has more recently concentrated on works for music theatre, imcluding two operas on texts by Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House and The Lady from the Sea. Although born in New York City, he spent 29 years as Associate Principal Clarinet with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a position he left in 2010. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Ray Luedeke is artistic director of Voice Afire Opera-Cabaret in New York City. Matilde, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano, tenor and piano is derived from Ray’s opera-cabaret My Life with Pablo Neruda and uses text by Pablo Neuda.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Luedeke
