Alabama Hispanic Association
In 2008 world renowned jazz flautist Nestor Torres visited Huntsville, AL, to give a concert at the Von Braun Center. While in Huntsville, Mr. Torres was asked by the Alabama Hispanic Association (AHA) to speak to students at one of the local elementary schools.
Nestor Torres was born in Mayaquez, Puerto Rico, in 1957. He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American University. At 18, he moved to New York with his family. Torres went on to study both jazz and classical music at at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, among other places.
Nestor Torres was born in Mayaquez, Puerto Rico, in 1957. He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American University. At 18, he moved to New York with his family. Torres went on to study both jazz and classical music at at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, among other places.
He moved to Miami in 1981, and signed with PolyGram, where he released Morning Ride in 1989. His major label debut climbed quickly to the top of the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts and soon brought him widespread acclaim. Tragedy struck a year later when an accident in a celebrity boat race left him with eighteen fractured ribs, two broken clavicles and a collapsed lung.
| The AHA Board |
| Membership Application |
| Scholarships |
| Outstanding Spanish Student Award |
| Tutoring |
| Christmas Gift Giving |
| Safe Kids |
| Nestor Torres at University Place Elementary School |
| Pancake Breakfast 2009 |
| Pancake Breakfast 2011 |
| AHA 10th Anniversary Scholarships |
| 2011 Robert K. Ryland Scholarship |
| Outstanding Spanish Student Award 2004 |
| Outstanding Spanish Student Award 2007 |
| Outstanding Spanish Student Award 2009 |
| Outstanding Spanish Student Award 2011 |
| Summer Enrichment 2008 |
| University Place Elementary School 2008-2009 |
| Morris Elementary School |
| Christmas Gift Giving 2008 |
| Christmas Gift Giving 2009 |
| Christmas Gift Giving 2010 |
| Christmas Gift Giving 2011 |
| Chinese Students |
| Early Works Museum |
| AHA Christmas Celebrations |
| Hispanic Festival 2003 |
| Hispanic Festival 2004 |
| International Cultural Festival |
| UAH Community Threads Reception |