With many exciting collaborations Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas is rounding up a busy start to 2013. His performances will start later this month - 30th January - at the Walton Hall (Manchester) with cellist Li Lu performing the Arpeggione Sonata by Schubert amongst other classical and contemporary works. On February 7th, Dickinson Cardenas and Mestizo Trio will continue with their quest through music from Latin America. They will perform a programme including works from their critically acclaimed album The Havana Suite at St Christopher's Hospice (Sydenham), London, as part of the Dame Cicely Saunders concert series. On February 21st, Ahmed will join forces at the Forge Venue with soprano Maya Sapone and pianist Helen Glaisher-Hernandez presenting some of the most exquisite melodies by renowned South American composers such as Enrique Gonzalez Medina, Ariel Ramirez and Carlos Guastavino. Then on March 8th, Dickinson Cardenas returns to St Mary's Hook, Warsash, with violin virtuoso Ben Wragg playing a wide variety of music including works by Bach, Piazzolla and their own arrangements of works by contemporary favourites like Arvo Pärt and John Adams.