An evening of music and conversation in honor of Tania León
Join us for music, food, and an informal conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning composer and Kennedy Center honoree Tania León.
This evening will include performances by members of The Harlem Chamber Players with empanadas, wines, and dessert.
FEATURING
Tania León, guest of honor
Sophia Kunxu Dou, composer
Candice Hoyes, soprano and composer
Ashley Horne, violin
Claire Chan, violin
William Frampton, viola
Wayne Smith, cello
PROGRAM
Tania León De vez en cuando from Cuarteto No. 2
Conversation with Tania León
Sophia Kunxu Dou Dance of Unconscious Particles
Candice Hoyes Zora’s Moon
RSVP no later than April 29th.
ACCESSIBILITY
Ramp access is available at The Africa Center’s main entrance at 1280 Fifth Avenue. The Center’s installation space, Teranga, and restroom facilities are wheelchair accessible.
TICKETS
Tickets start at $150. We have a limited number of discounted tickets. Email us for more information.
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A special thank you to our co-sponsors Sandra Billingslea, Nancy Hager, and Stanley Heckman.
A huge thanks to Met Opera, Studio Museum in Harlem, Book Culture, Lido Harlem, BIXI Harlem, The Fox Harlem, Janoff’s Typewriter & Stationery, The Met Museum, Ashley Horne, Erasmia Voukelatos, Nancy Hager, Grace Row, Marcia Sells, and Amy Brown for their generous donations to our auction.
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ABOUT TANIA LEÓN
Cuban-born American composer, conductor and educator Tania León is one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of her, or any other, generation. She was the first Latin American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2021; in 2022 she was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime artistic achievements; in 2023, she received the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition from Northwestern University and became the first woman to be honored with the highest composition prize conferred by Spain, the XIX Premio SGAE for Iberian American Music Tomás Luis de Victoria; and in 2025, she was the recipient of the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Award, the Trustees Award.
In 2025, As a composer, she has been commissioned by leading orchestras around the world, held Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for its 2023-2024 season, and currently serves as Composer-in-Residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. As a conductor, she studied under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, and has guest conducted the New York Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, and many more.
As an educator, she has guest lectured and served as Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Yale University, Chicago University, Musikschule in Hamburg, and others, and has received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the Juilliard School, Columbia University, Oberlin, The Curtis Institute of Music, Colgate University, SUNY Purchase College, New Jersey City University, and Brooklyn College.
León has served as an advisor to the New York Philharmonic and American Composers Orchestra, and in 2010 she founded Composers Now with the mission of empowering living composers.
ACCESSIBILITY
Ramp access is available at the Center’s main entrance at 1280 Fifth Avenue. The Center’s installation space, Teranga, and restroom facilities are wheelchair accessible.