Lucía Caruso, Argentine pianist and composer living in the United States, will participate in New York at the Global Women for Peace concert, the special event organized this Wednesday by the United Nations to commemorate International Women’s Day.
The artist, born in Mendoza, will share the stage with Louise Farrenc, from France; Souad Bushnaq, from Syria; Bora Yoon, representative of Korea and the United States; Maria Brodskaya, from Ukraine; Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph, from South Africa; Zhang Haihui from China; Sussan Deyhim, from Iran; Angélica Negrón, from Puerto Rico, and Florence Price, from the United States.
The UN Symphony will accompany these ten composers who will present their works at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York.
This performance is one of several events organized by the Commission on the Legal and Social Status of Womenin the framework of the sixty-seventh session of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
The Commission is the main international intergovernmental body dedicated exclusively to the promotion of gender equality. and the empowerment of women, and the presence of women composers stands out since in the concert programs of the main symphony orchestras in the world, only 5.1% were compositions made by women, according to UN data from year 2021.
Carouso, 43 years old, At 19, he moved to New York, where he studied piano at the Manhattan School of Music and a master’s degree in composition and film music at New York University. In this category, there are only 7% of women writing music for well-known films, according to a report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film.
as a pianist, the Argentine artist has performed in the main concert halls of the world including Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, among others.
She founded with her husband, the musician Pedro Henriques da Silva, “Manhattan Camerata”, an innovative chamber orchestra that incorporates elements and instruments from diverse cultures in a variety of genres and styles. He also created the film music company “Light & Sound Film Scoring”.
Caruso has been a member, since 2016, of the Sorel Organization, an association that seeks to expand opportunities for female musicians in the fields of directing, film scoring, acting, artistic leadership, education, and scholarship.and that also sponsors recordings and other initiatives of female musicians.
He currently works composing for numerous orchestras, dances and films.
Caruso received a large number of awards, such as the award for Best Emerging Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 with “Death Metal Grandma”; for Best Instrumental Performance by the International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) in 2017; three Plus Awards by the American Society of Composers, Artists and Publishers (2020, 2016 and 2015); and second prize in composition at the World Piano Teachers Association International Piano and Composition Competition in 2021, among others.
This year’s Global Women for Peace concert It will also have a female director, the American Anoa Green.
The event will also have the participation of the organization United Voices 4 Peace -cultural diplomatic initiative- whose objective is to make visible the struggle that women have to continue to give to gain a place in the world of composition and orchestral conducting, generate awareness and inspire change.
