Latest Release
- SEP 8, 2023
- 9 Songs
- Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana · 2023
- Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana · 2023
- Mozart in Havana · 2017
- Mozart in Havana · 2017
- Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances · 2022
- Mozart y Mambo · 2020
- Mozart in Havana · 2017
- Mozart y Mambo · 2020
- Mozart in Havana · 2017
- Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana · 2023
About Havana Lyceum Orchestra
Since the Havana Lyceum Orchestra’s inception as a volunteer student orchestra in 2007—celebrating Mozart’s 250th birthday in collaboration with the Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg—it has built partnerships between Cuban and European institutions to become a leading national ensemble. Led by Cuban conductor José Antonio Méndez Padrón, the orchestra released a daring and deliciously fun collaboration with Berliner Philharmoniker horn player Sarah Willis, Mozart y Mambo (2020). The record presents the beautiful Cuban classics “Dos gardenias” and “El manisero” while giving Mozart some extra zing. Willis and the ensemble’s follow-up 2022 recording, Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances, fuses Willis' impressive classical chops with Havana’s famous salsa, son, mambo, and bolero rhythms. Through support from Germany’s Goethe-Institut and the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble, the Havana Lyceum Orchestra has become a privately funded professional touring ensemble that upends Cuban music conventions.
- ORIGIN
- Havana, Cuba
- FORMED
- 2009
- GENRE
- Classical