LA Chamber Orchestra Launches Chamber Program to Celebrate of Queer and Latine Culture

Curated by composer Inti Figgis-Vizueta, the LACO will perform two programs of music from the Latin diaspora

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach to present a new chamber program.  Celebrating Queer and Latine Music Culture, it will be curated by composer Inti Figgis-Vizueta.

Titled CURRENT: [inti]mate, the program will feature music from the Latin diaspora, including works by Tania León, Angélica Negrón, Violeta Parra, Camilo Gonzalez-Sol, and Marcos Balter, as well as a world premiere by Figgis-Vizueta and the world premiere of a new arrangement by Carolina Heredia of Parra’s Anticueca No. 4.

The full list of works for the LACO's two concerts, curated by Figgis-Vueta, is as follows:

TANIA LEÓN: Paísanos Semos!

VIOLETA PARRA: Anticueca No. 1

CAROLINA HEREDIA: Ausencias

VIOLETA PARRA: (arr. Javier Montiel)  Anticueca No. 2

MARCOS BALTER: Vision Mantra

VIOLETA PARRA: Anticueca No. 3

CAMILO GONZALEZ-SOL: Serenata

VIOLETA PARRA: (arr. Javier Montiel)  Anticueca No. 5

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN: Marejada

VIOLETA PARRA: (arr. Carolina Heredia)  Anticueca No. 4

INTI FIGGIS-VIZUETA: world premiere

The concerts will take place on Saturday, January 20, 2024, at 7:30 pm, at the Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach — and on Sunday, January 21 at 7:30 pm, in the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center, 1125 N. McCadden Place.

Figgis-Vueta's musical style is informed by her rich cultural heritage and draws on the immigrant communities and Black-founded Freedom schools of her childhood in Chocolate City (Washington, DC) –— as well as her direct Andean/Irish heritage and her deep connection to the land.

Recent highlights for Figgis-Vueta include the Carnegie Hall premiere of her string quartet concerto Seven Sides of Fire, written for the Attacca Quartet and American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen; and performances of Coradh (bending) by the Spoleto Festival, PODIUM Festival, and Oregon Symphony.