Music from Ibero America in Australia
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Mujeres hispanas en Australia
Thursday 12th June 2025, 5:30pm
Instituto Cervantes Sydney,Level 3, 299-305 Sussex Street Sydney, NSW 2000
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Past Events

2009 to 2019

Recent Events

Events from 2020 to 2025

2025 Events

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Repertoire

MIA Promo

MIA Various 2019 - 2020

Black Kite

Carlos Salomón (1967) Mexico

Colombiana

Luis C.Figueroa (1923)

Miniaturas 3 & 4

Eddie Mora (1965) Costa Rica

Cholo

Villoud H. Iglesias (1913 - 1988) Argentina

About

The opening night of the Latin American Gala in Canberra was the presentation of M I A – Music from Ibero America in Australia.

For several years, Irma Enriquez as a pianist of Duo Deconet has been coordinating projects with violinist Henry Avila that embrace the collaborations of Ibero American, Australian composers and artists from multidisciplinary fields: writers, poets, visual artists, short film makers, dancers and singers. Some of the artists are: Jacqueline Buswell, Susana Enriquez, Darryl Thoms, Andrea Quaglia, Paola Monroy and the Mexico Lindo Dance group.

Some of the composers are: Miguel del Aguila, Leonardo Coral, Sadiel Cuentas, Eduardo Gamboa, Eddie Mora, Arturo Valenzuela, Juan J. Colomer, Alejandro Corona, Jorge Grundman, Carlos Salomon, Manuel Ruiz del Corral, Luis C. Figueroa, Mateo Soto, Guido Lopez Gavilan, Graciela Agudelo, Icli Zitella, Alexis Aranda, Paul Dessene, Luisa E. Paesano. The Australian composers include Elena Kats-Chernin, Margaret Brandman and Daniel Rojas. Monroy and Enriquez have a vast repertoire of art songs in Spanish, Quechua, Nahuatl, English, Catalan and Portuguese. MIA’s programs embrace the classical traditional repertoire, incorporating contemporary and fresh works, as well as offering exclusive premieres for the Asia Pacific region.

  • 2000

    Influences

    A great respect and appreciation for Mexican composers was cultivated, while Irma Enriquez studied piano for several years, with one of the last neo-romantic composers of Mexico Alfonso de Elias, pianist, composer and teacher at the Conservatorium of Mexico.

  • 2001 - 2006

    Contemporary Interest

    Her interest in the contemporary music works was well established during her studies with Aurelio Leon Ptacnik, master in piano and pedagogy who supervised her thesis work, ‘Recordings of unpublished Mexican Contemporary Music’, to obtain the Bachelor in Music – Piano; on her concert, thesis and exam she received an Honourable Mention. From 2001 to 2006, Irma started to include famous repertoire from 20th century Mexican composers in her piano and chamber music performances. In a second phase, 2008 to 2011 she expanded the programs with new music from 21 century composers.

  • 2009 - 2017

    An Opportunity

    Aware of the lack of opportunities to see performances of classical Latin American composers in Australia, she decided to present this music with premieres in every concert. The process of presenting this musical heritage began with performances of pieces by Mexican composers and then included including Latin-American and Spanish works. Since 2009 with Duo Deconet, Henry Avila e Irma have promoted the Latin-American works in Australia.

  • 2018

    MIA is Launched

    The opening night of the Latin American Gala in Canberra was the presentation of MIA – Music from Ibero America in Australia.

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Irma Enriquez

Pianist

Jacqueline Buswell

Poet

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info@iberoamericanmusic.com.au