Presented by the Cuban Cultural Center
as part of United in Sound: America at 250

The cell, Chelsea

As part of Carnegie Hall’s landmark United in Sound: America at 250 festival, the Cuban Cultural Center proudly presents the New York performance and album release of Songs of Juana Borrero, a song cycle by composer and vocalist Dr. Stephanie Susberich.

This deeply expressive work sets the poetry of Juana Borrero, the nearly forgotten 19th-century Cuban poetess whose brief life burned with intensity, imagination, and visionary force. Her poetry reveals a fierce interior world shaped by love, mysticism, longing, and the ever-present nearness of death. Susberich’s music enters this inner terrain with reverence and emotional precision, giving voice to a young woman whose artistic brilliance far exceeded her years.

The concert marks the official release of the album Songs of Juana Borrero, featuring Dr. Stephanie Susberich as soprano, with Brenda Quattrini, piano, and Ty Ferone, cello. Together, the trio brings this intimate, luminous score to life in the resonant setting of The cell, a space renowned for adventurous and interdisciplinary performance.

This presentation is part of Carnegie Hall’s citywide 2026 festival, celebrating America’s cultural plurality and creative legacy. The event will be featured on Carnegie Hall’s website and included in its official festival catalogue, distributed throughout New York City, marking a significant moment for the composer, performers, and all collaborating institutions.

Songs of Juana Borrero is both an act of remembrance and a declaration of presence, restoring a vital poetic voice to the contemporary concert stage while affirming the enduring power of song to carry history, identity, and inner fire forward.

Tickets available soon.