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To everyone resonating with music, health, and identity— This week, Resonances comes to you from Eugene, Oregon, where I am serving as Scholar in Residence at the University of Oregon. I feel deeply grateful for this opportunity to continue the mission that has guided my work for decades. With this residency, Oregon becomes the 33rd state I have visited, bringing the repertoire, history, and living presence of Latin American and Iberian art song to classrooms, studios, and concert spaces across the United States. I arrive here with a strong sense of purpose. Over the coming days, I will be teaching, presenting lectures, leading masterclasses, and participating in concerts devoted to Latin American and Iberian art song—music shaped by poetry, history, migration, and memory. Residencies like this matter deeply to me. They are not only about repertoire, technique, or historical context. They are about transmission. About preparing the next generation of singers to understand that this music carries more than notes on a page—it carries language, identity, and lived experience. Working with students here in Eugene, I am reminded why this work continues to matter: when singers discover that this repertoire is theirs—that it speaks their language, their histories, their questions—something shifts. Pride replaces hesitation. Curiosity replaces omission. Responsibility replaces silence. As this residency unfolds, the journey continues.
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