AnnaMaria offers concerts, master classes, lectures, and workshops on the university circuit. Below is a list of her typical presentations.

1) AnnaMaria's typical program, a musical journey tracing the Cultural and Historical Development of the Roots of Flamenco and its parallel in northern New Mexico through the dramatic storyline of the life of an individual character. While this program is continually updated and adapted, elements represented musically often include the fleeing of Inquisitional Spain in order to more safely maintain a unique ethnic/religious identity (i.e. the cases of Crypto-Judaism and Crypto-Islam, the plight of the gypsies, or the suppression of Mozarab Catholic expression), the new cultural developments encountered in an emerging Mexico and the trials and triumph of Spanish Colonial identity in the most dangerous and remote outpost of the Spanish New World. This especially explores the contributions of the Penitente cult, the great maintainer of Spanish religiosity and culture through centuries of isolation and a hidden remaining clue to the origins of Hispanic identity throughout the world today.

2) Lectures on the above material suited to a truly academic format. Program option 1 presents a great deal of the heart of AnnaMaria's research, but without ever loosing its entertainment value as part of an engaging performance. Program option 2 would address this fascinating area in a much more traditional scholarly format. Academic areas that could be emphasized in lecture format include: Hispanic/Latino Studies, Music, History, Theology, and a number of interdisciplinary possibilities.

3) A purely Classical Concert. Eliminating the research and dramatic aspects of program option 1, AnnaMaria is able to offer a quite popular concert format to the university classical music audience and to a cross-over audience intrigued by the romantic allure of the Spanish guitar.

4) A Master Class. It is typical that universities securing a concert from a classical artist will request that the performer stay to offer technical help to music students on campus in a master class format. AnnaMaria especially loves interaction with other young musicians.

5) Any combination of longer-term options, up to a length of Residency. Lectures could be adapted to classroom format, and AnnaMaria would be happy to speak to any number of classes. Musical instruction can expanded from the master class format to longer-term periods of immersion in classical or flamenco technique, perhaps ultimately preparing students for a group flamenco program of their own.

6) A program designed to help students Fall in Love With Opera by making its world accessible, understandable and relevant to the life of a young, educated person. Such a program would likely incorporate a series of scenes, and it may well be possible to bring in a small corps of talented professional opera singers to span the necessary range of roles. A more scaled-back program of the same nature might simply focus on the sultry realm of the mezzo-soprano repertoire (i.e. "Get to Know a Mezzo") or illustrate a certain style of opera (i.e. Italian, French, etc.).

7) Often AnnaMaria is called upon to demystify and make accessible some of the least understood and most interesting Hispanic Cultural Curiosities to those outside the culture. Special program options, especially appropriate for Hispanic Heritage Month and other contexts in which universities are attempting to expand cultural awareness, can feature sensitive, insightful, and entertaining musical presentations on such topics as: El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), Quinceaneras (the celebration of a teenage girl's coming of age), Llorona/Malinche figures (weeping women of folk history) and other areas of specific interest.

8) One of AnnaMaria's most beautiful and meaningful programs is available only for the holiday season. Las Posadas is a much-beloved Christmas tradition--an interactive experience combining the pageantry of the nativity story with traditional Hispanic music, classical and flamenco guitar, and popular American Christmas repertoire.

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For university and college bookings, please contact Wally Saukerson at 1-800-476-0442 or click here.

For all other inquiries, contact Musica Mundial Productions at 1-877-983-6237.