Carnegie Hall Announces Partner Events for Nuestros Sonidos Festival

Over 100 events have been scheduled across New York City to celebrate Latin culture in the U.S. 

To mark its season-long Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds) festival, honoring the sounds, traditions, and wide influence of Latin culture in the U.S., Carnegie Hall has scheduled over 100 partner events at leading cultural and academic institutions across New York City. 

From February through May 2025, the Nuestros sonidos festival performances will feature musical styles including salsa, bachata, Latin jazz, reggaeton, hip-hop, classical, and more. 

Concerts include those with Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita (Feb. 1); Claudia Acuña (Feb. 7); Monsieur Periné (Feb. 22); American Composers Orchestra under the baton of Tito Muñoz (Mar. 6); and Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (Apr. 11). 

More artists include Grupo Niche (Apr. 17); soprano Gabriella Reyes (Apr. 29); Magos Herrera (May 4); and Cimafunk and La Tribu (May 22). Free concerts will also be presented in New York City neighborhoods as part of the Carnegie Hall Citywide series. 

Further, the Cuban Cultural Center of New York will host a tribute to the Cuban guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer featuring leading contemporary classical musicians including the Toomai String Quartet. 

Also on the schedule is The Juilliard School’s presentation of Our Future Voices: Music and Technology of the Americas, which explores instrumental and vocal solos enhanced with electronics. The works include those by Tania León and Angélica Negrón.

On April 5, Alice Tully Hall will host the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra in works by Chico O’Farrill, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, and Charles Mingus. Along with Mario Bauza and Gillespie, O’Farrill was pivotal in fusing jazz music with Latin rhythms and dances from the Caribbean. 

Additionally, a range of exhibitions, workshops, and talks to dance, theater performances, and film screenings will involve the new Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club™, as well as Wim Wenders’s music documentary of the same name, where director and musician Ry Cooder accompanied the ensemble of Cuban musicians from their home in Havana to their 1998 concert at Carnegie Hall. 

The Museum of the Moving Image is also presenting a tour as part of the Behind the Screen exhibit exploring the artistry of often overlooked Latin American and Caribbean artists in film and TV history. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host Latine Visions in Art and Music, and the ID Studio Theater Performance and Research Center will present Los Niños Perdidos (Lost Children) featuring video interviews with young migrants from Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA). 

“With the Nuestros sonidos festival, we are taking audiences on an artistic journey that highlights the breadth and constant evolution of Latin culture, exploring the tremendous contribution that it has made throughout the history of the US in helping to shape this country today,” said Carnegie Hall’s Executive and Artistic Director, Clive Gillinson. 

“We are grateful to our many partners at leading organizations across New York City who have joined with us to create this fascinating celebration across so many important art forms,” he added. “After months of planning, it will be exciting to experience these festival events as integral parts of one thrilling story.”