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Great Latin American Guitar Composers

March 16, 2019, 7:00 pm

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Guitar music is one of the strengths of the Latin American repertoire. Composers from all countries built on the strong traditions inherited from Europe and developed and transformed guitar music in Latin America. Fiesta pays another visit to the guitar treasures of the Americas with composers Leo Brouwer, Maximo Diego Pujol, and Antonio Lauro.

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Registro, Danza Negra, Cancion, and Vals from Suite Venezolana, by Antonio Lauro
Jesús Castro Balbi, guitar

Three Pieces from Río de la Plata, by Máximo Pujol
Víctor Villadangos, guitar

Suite No. 1 “Haitian Dances”, by Frantz Casseus
Frantz Casseus, guitar

Quintet for Guitar & Strings, by Leo Brouwer
Fareed Haque, guitar; KAIA String Quartet

Paisaje Cubano con Fiesta, by Leo Brouwer
Carlos Barbosa-Lima, guitar

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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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Great Latin American Guitar Composers

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