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The Music of Gustavo Leone

December 31, 2016, 7:00 pm

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With works commissioned by ensembles including the Grant Park Festival Orchestra and the Symphonic Orchestra of Michoacán, Argentinean composer Gustavo Leone now teaches at the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago. This program features his selected solo, chamber and orchestral works.

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Preludes for Harp, by Gustavo Leone
Benjamin Melsky (harp)

The Red Quintet, 1st and 2nd Movement
Cuarteto Arte Latino Americano, Marta Lilian Bonilla (harp)

Mobiles for Four Wind Instruments
Pro Musica

Sextet for Six Instruments
Rembrandt Chamber Players

Mundo
Birch Creek Festival Orchestra, Cynthia Stiehl (soprano), Brian Gronet (soprano)

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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.

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