América Latina

The music of Latin America carries within it the memory of stories and civilizations that have never ceased meeting and transforming. Pre-Columbian, African and European heritages have produced, through phenomena of mixing, syncretism and creolization, a great diversity of musical forms. The modernity of this music is traversed by themes as varied as the relationship to the land, beliefs, collective narratives, daily joys and sorrows.

Andean ritual thus inspires Jimmy López in his Pago a la Tierra (homage to the earth), while Carlos Chávez imagines Aztec music inspired by pre-Columbian instruments in Xochipilli. Villa-Lobos and Ariel Ramírez draw from the forms, rhythms and practices of popular music to integrate them into their own musical language.

The second part of the program, given in November 2026 at UNESCO, is entirely dedicated to Peru. It features several emblematic pieces from the traditional repertoire - huayno, Creole waltz, cumbia - as well as creations by Franco-Peruvian composer Christine Audat, whose arrangements for choir and orchestra are signed by Nicolas Agullo, conductor of the COSU.

Jimmy López Pago a la Tierra

Ariel Ramírez Misa Criolla for choir and orchestra

Heitor Villa-Lobos Duas Lendas Ameríndias em Nheengatu

Carlos Chávez Xochipilli, An Imagined Aztec Music

Christine Audat

• Demos Gracias Democracias

• Sácalo

• Agua sí oro no

Adrian Flores Albán Alma, cœur and life

Miguel Ángel Hurtado Delgado Valicha

Ángel Aníbal Rosado Cariñito

Choir & Orchestra Sorbonne Université

Nicolas Agullo conductor

Frédéric Pineau choir director

Choir of the UFR of Music and Musicology

Gwennaëlle Lemaire-Debarnot choir director

Luis Rigou tenor solo and flutes