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Living Latin American Composers

June 15, 2019, 7:00 pm

Esteban Benzecry

Some of the most fascinating living composers working today come from Latin America, composers such as Leo Brouwer, Esteban Benzecry, Miguel del Águila, and Enrico Chapela. Fiesta will review beautiful and harmonic music from the 21st century.

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Submerged Music, by Miguel del Aguila
Hat Trick Trio

Inguesu, by Enrico Chapela
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor

Guitar Sonata No. 1, by Leo Brouwer
José Antonio Escobar, guitar

Huenu Leufu, for string quartet, flute, clarinet, piano and percussion, by Esteban Benzecry
Ensemble l’Itinéraire; Kanako Abe, Conductor

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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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