Between June 1 and 7 in Liverpool
Amparo Sánchez takes part in the exchange program between AIE and LIPA
The residency will conclude with five concerts — one in Liverpool and four in various Spanish cities.
April 2, 2025 – Amparo Sánchez has been selected as this year’s touring artist for the exchange program between the Sociedad de Artistas AIE and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), the renowned school founded by Sir Paul McCartney.
From June 1 to 7, Amparo Sánchez will offer masterclasses to a group of LIPA students, with whom she will rehearse and prepare a setlist to be performed at a concert in Liverpool and four more across Spain:
AMPARO SÁNCHEZ + LIPA COMBO TOUR
June 2025
01/06- Liverpool- LIPA Canteen
11/06- Madrid- Sala Galileo
12/06- Valencia- Loco Club
13/06- Zaragoza- RockandBlues
14/06- Barcelona- Club Sauvage
Amparo Sánchez joins a distinguished list of previous AIE-LIPA exchange artists including Javier Ruibal, Coque Malla, Víctor Coyote, Zahara, Julián Maeso, Maika Makovski, Jacobo Serra, Soledad Vélez, Tulsa, and Depedro.
Since 1996, LIPA has collaborated with AIE through its Music Studies Scholarships and AIEnRUTa-Artistas program.
This partnership is designed to promote professional musical training and to foster international artistic mobility and cultural exchange between Spanish performers and LIPA students. It represents a unique educational and artistic project within the European Union’s performing arts scene. To date, 115 concerts have been held under the AIE-LIPA collaboration.
About Amparo Sánchez
In 2010, after her celebrated Amparanoia phase, Amparo Sánchez launched her solo career with the release of Tucson-Habana — a musical and cultural journey recorded in two emblematic cities: Tucson, USA, and Havana, Cuba. The project began in 2007 during her collaboration with the band Calexico in Tucson’s Wavelab Studios and continued two years later at Havana’s EGREM Studios, where she worked with the legendary Omara Portuondo.
This landmark album, which blends Mediterranean flair with Cuban and Latin American sounds, was re-released in 2025 by Mamita Records in a special 15th Anniversary Edition with unreleased tracks — and will form a key part of the AIE-LIPA tour repertoire.
Her sound blends rumba, flamenco, Cuban son, and Tex-Mex, establishing Amparo Sánchez as a leading voice in global music.
Her latest album, Ritual Sonoro (late 2024), reflects her most personal, intimate and spiritual side. As Amparo describes it:
A ritual of harmony and unity through music in a state of sonic trance. Strings, voices, melodies, and words. The paths lead nowhere and everywhere. They intertwine to return us to life’s purpose: to dance and vibrate until we merge with the universe. We create songs as a form of connection, as a ritual that reminds us of who we are.
Her fifth solo project features Argentinian folk singer Raly Barrionuevo and Catalan artist Willy Fuego. In an acoustic format, the trio explores her repertoire in son, bolero, chacarera, Tex-Mex, and reggae styles. The nine tracks were recorded in Lucerne (Switzerland) in April 2024 and later mixed and mastered by Kaki Arkarazo at Garate Studios (Donosti).
Songs from Tucson-Habana, Ritual Sonoro, and her broader discography — performed by a large ensemble — will serve as the foundation for the 2025 AIE-LIPA Tour.
LIPA
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) is a higher education institution founded in 1995 by Paul McCartney in the building of his former school, also attended by George Harrison. The adjacent building, acquired in 2016, was once home to the art school where John Lennon studied.
LIPA offers degree programs in acting, dance, performance design, community arts, arts management, and popular music. Its teaching model emphasizes a high-level, practice-based, career-focused education, preparing students for real-world success in the performing arts industry.