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Fiesta Sessions

September 3, 2016, 7:00 pm

Guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque, the stellar KAIA String Quartet and virtuoso pianist Mauricio Nader have recorded exclusive sessions for Fiesta. Be the first to listen to this recordings made just for Fiesta.

Playlist

Three Movements from Maria de Buenos Aires: Alevare, Tema de María, Contramilonga a la funerala, by Astor Piazzolla
Latino Music Festival Ensemble, Catalina Cuervo (soprano), Elbio Barilari (narrator), Raúl Jaurena (bandoneón), Gerardo Moreira (conductor)

Sonatina, by Carlos Chávez
Mauricio Nader (piano)

“Salida de Cecilia Valdes” from Cecilia Valdes, by Gonzalo Roig
Megan Cook (soprano), Amy Wurtz (piano)

Guitar Concerto No. 2: “El Alevín”, by Eduardo Angulo
Fareed Haque (guitar), KAIA String Quartet

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Meet the Host

Composer, musician, and professor, Elbio Rodríguez Barilari was born in 1953 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied at the Conservatório Universitario before continuing his education in Brazil at the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporáne. Since settling in the United States in 1998, Barilari has lectured at the University of Chicago and the Instituto Cervantes. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

As a composer, Barilari has received commissions from the Grant Park Music Festival, Concertante di Chicago, Chicago Park District, and Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo. In addition to works for orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments, he has provided scores for more than forty plays in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

Fiesta Sessions

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