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Sofia Koutsovitis CD Release Concert
SOFIA KOUTSOVITIS belongs to a new generation of musicians who imaginatively explore the connection between jazz and contemporary music and the rich musical traditions of South America. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she now resides in New York City. An active vocalist, composer and arranger, her primary musical project to date, the Sofia Koutsovitis Group is grounded in traditional South American rhythms such as Chacarera and Zamba from Argentina, Afro-Peruvian Festejo and Land and some Brazilian genres that merge involving jazz harmonies and rich improvisations. Singing in Spanish, Portuguese or English, Sofia's voice is gracefully sophisticated and develops the passion for her original compositions or her own innovative arrangements of pieces by Latin American composers such as Silvio Rodriguez, Astor Piazolla, Paulinho da Viola, Djavan and Chabuca Granda. Sofia is a restless artist, one of the most versatile and in-demand singers on the New York music scene who in a short period of time has recorded, performed and collaborated with renowned musicians and groups such as the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, Geoffrey Keezer's Aurea, Folklore Urbano, Lionel Loueke, Russ Ferrante, Bob Moses, Aquiles Baez, Alcatraz, Samuel Torres Group, and Pablo Aslan's Avantango. She has recently been selected to perform Instant Opera at the Carnegie Hall with acclaimed vocal innovator Bobby McFerrin and masters of a wide range of vocal traditions from all over the world.
About Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (formerly known as Casa de La Cultura / Center for Latino Arts) is a cutting-edge, multi-functional community arts complex that conveys to both Latinos and non-Latinos from all over New England, the vitality of contemporary and traditional Latino cultural expressions, including: folk dance and music, Latin jazz, film, poetry and theater.
The Center joins our main hall (converted into a 450-seat venue from a historic church in 1986) with a new community arts center (renovated from the adjacent parish house in 2003) that includes a gallery, dance studio and visual arts studio.
About IBA
Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) is a dynamic community building agency dedicated to increasing the social and economic power of individuals and families through education, economic development, technology and arts programming that build safe, vibrant and culturally diverse affordable housing communities.
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LocationVilla Victoria Center for the Arts
85 W. Newton Street
Boston, MA 02118
United States
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