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Villancicos of Traditional Latin America European release, June 18 2007. US release, October 9
The Choir
“Harmonies Girls Choir” is an independent all-girls choral arts organization based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The choir is comprised of girls ages 8 through 18 under the musical direction of orchestral and choral conductor Maestro Antonio Espinal, founder of the choir. Established in 2002, HARMONIES is one of the most dynamic and versatile girl's choirs in the city of Los Angeles.
Maestro Espinal is focused on expanding young girl's minds through a deep appreciation for beautiful music, a challenging vocal music education and rewarding performance experiences. This includes the exposure to a world outside of the inner city via national and international tours. The choir covers a variety of musical styles including classical, contemporary, avant-garde, popular songs, Broadway, spirituals, sacred music, and traditional songs from Europe and Latin America. Maestro Espinal keeps the pieces as "pure" as possible by making sure the songs are sung in the original languages.
International Tour 2006- Mexico. Harmonies in Teotihuacan.
International Tour 2006: Viena, Salzburg and Prague. Here, Harmonies at Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria
Past events:OUR SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL TOUR MEXICO 2008
HARMONIES GIRLS CHOIR was professionally booked for performing at the prestigious
IX FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE LAS ARTES
LUMINARIA 2008
9th International Festival of the Arts "LUMINARIA" in Atizapan de Zaragoza, State of Mexico (Metropolitan Mexico City). The performances took place on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October, 2008.
We were the only group representing the USA from an international group of performers, dancers, actors, writers, painters, and musicians from Latin America and Europe.
-CONGRATULATIONS!-
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NEWS
10 years old member and main soloist of Harmonies win Top Award in a competition
Breanna Flores, who is just 10 years old, member of HARMONIES was announced top winner of the "2009 Rotary Club Of Hollywood scholarship/award ", receiving the Les Remsen Award ($ 500.00).
This was not a voice competition only, but a instrument/voice competition, which only made the competition more challenging for any singer. The other two awards were given to a cello player ( Jake Goldman, who received the "Art Ito Award", $250.00) and to another singer (Elizabeth Romero, with the "Herman Saunders Award", of $250.00).
Breanna participated with a extremely difficult song, for Soprano coloratura "Frühlingsstimmen" sung in German ("voices of spring", about 7 minutes long) By J. Straus, and Ave Maria, by Schubert. Breanna has been a private student of Maestro Antonio Espinal, who was also her accompanist during the competition. To make it more challenging, two members of the jury are German, who were surpised by the achievement of our cute little girl and her clean coloraturas, easy high notes and acute intonation. Breanna has now be to participate in the "district competition" were all the winners of the local competitions are send.
-CONGRATULATIONS, BREANNA!-
You're an inspiration for all the girls
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Funny facts about our CD
Our CD was first released as an independent production under the name FESTEJO DE NAVIDAD (Christmas Festivity). Then, a major FRENCH label distributed it internationally, releasing it on June 18th, 2007 as "POR EL VALLE DE ROSAS" (On the valley of Roses). Finally, the CD was released in the American continent with the name "NAVIDAD EN ESPAÑOL" (Christmas in Spanish). So, our exciting CD has 3 names!
Our International CD, was officially released in France at the Top Classical Music International "Festival de Saint- Denis 2007 " on the day of our performance.
The French label MILAN JADE has signed a contract with our music director Antonio Espinal with his Harmonies Girls Choir to be part of the roster of exclusive artists under this prestigious label. We hope this will be the begining of a sucessful series of music projects. Wait for our second CD under preparation!
Look at our record company's site at Milan Records
GET THE CD on AMAZON
GET THE music NOW! on iTunes
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NEW- FRENCH REVIEW
Read a Professional review (In French) of our sucessful Concert at the Saint Denis Festival (Paris) on June 18. The concert took place at the magnificent Saint Denis Basilique on a 2 hours all Mexican/Californian music concert, with an audience of over 900 people! HARMONIES was the only American Choir invited to perform there, on a Festival which included the KRONOS QUARTET, Conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Kurt Masur, and singer Dawn Upshaw.
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to hear samples from the CD. - Festejo de Navidad (2.37 MB)
- Boas Festas (2.30 MB)
- Tarara Tarara Qui Yo Soy Anton (2.15 MB)
- El Tilingo Lingo Navideño (2.33 MB)
- Noche Buena Paraguaya (2.30 MB)
- Villancico Negro(2.21 MB)
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