Naama Liany & Javier De Los Santos present the music of Maurice Ravel, Federico García Lorca, Frederic Mompou & Manuel de Falla.
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"Toujours sincère, le mezzo de Naama Liany exprime plusieurs facettes du rêve entre prière."
"With unwavering sincerity, Naama Liany’s mezzo-soprano voice reveals the many faces of a dream suspended between prayer and longing." -Classique News France
For French-Israeli Mezzo-Soprano Naama Liany, based in Luxembourg, every song is an opportunity for connection. Hailed as “One of today’s most promising singers” by Dutch media site Jonet.nl, Liany’s life story bridges continents, leading from her native Israel to New York City to Paris to her current home in Luxembourg. Her acclaimed programs of 20th-century repertoire span styles and decades, finding common ground between Milhaud and Gershwin, Mompou, and Bernstein. Most importantly, her performances and “heavenly voice” (Yediot Aharonot America) vividly convey the emotional heart of the music to audiences around the world.
Liany studied at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, Mannes School of Music, and the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College. She performed at Carnegie Hall, the Harvard Chamber music Series in NYC, the Everson Museum of Art, and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and she was a soloist with the Columbia University Bach Society in Bach’s Magnificat and Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. Liany continues to be mentored by legendary Mezzo-Soprano Viorica Cortez and Maestro Tamir Chasson.
Europe beckoned when Liany was one of only six vocalists chosen worldwide to participate in the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy, directed by legendary opera singers Cecilia Bartoli and Silvana Bazzoni. She settled in Paris, where her performance career truly began.
Liany currently resides in Luxembourg with her young family. She describes her performances as a matter of, “taking music that I love and that speaks to me, and finding my own voice in it. I want to create a new experience for the audience as we go on a musical journey together.”
Website: www.naamaliany.com
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Classical guitarist Javier de los Santos began his formal music studies in 1998 in guitar performance under Francisco Javier Muro Guevara at the Unidad Académica de Música de la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAMUAZ) in the State of Zacatecas, México. In 2006, under the guidance of Mr. Eric vanDiver Nohe, Javier earned his Bachelor of Arts in Guitar Performance at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. Javier holds a Master of Music in Guitar Performance from the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music and studied with renowned Maestro Ricardo Iznaola.
De los Santos has performed extensively in Colorado, México, U.S., Spain and Brazil, including at the CSU La Guitarra Española in Granada with Pepe Romero and the Romero's Guitar Quartet at the Celedonio Romero Guitar Institute, with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra and the Boulder Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Musica no Museo Rio Winds Festival in Rio de Janeiro, and at the XV Semana Cultural de Zacatecas in Zacatecas, Mexico, and with numerous other chamber and orchestral groups. De los Santos was the first-place winner of the 2009 Denver Classical Guitar Society Solo Debut Competition and a semifinalist at the 2010 Texas Annual Guitar Competition and Festival.
Since the Fall 2015, de los Santos has been a guitar instructor for the Lead Guitar-Aspen Music Festival and School Guitar Programs in the Roaring Fork Valley. He is also the president and artistic director of the Western Colorado Classical Guitar Society and the founder of Mariachi San Jose, based in Grand Junction, Colorado. De los Santos enjoys teaching guitar privately and teaches Music Theory and Guitar at Colorado Mesa University.
Website: www.coloradomesa.edu/directory/music/javier-de-los-santos.html
Nathan Child, 970-429-1933 or [email protected].