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Spotlight on New Recordings

February 1, 2020, 7:00 pm

Photo: Daniel Goldberg

We receive many new recordings of Spanish and Latin American classical music daily. Host Elbio Barilari picks some of his fresh favorites!

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Three Atlantic Pieces, by Eurico Carrapatoso
Courtney Miller, oboe; Minji Kwon, piano

Three Guitar Pieces, by Carlos Chávez
Eduardo Fernández, guitar

Migjas, by Ricard Lamonte de Grignon
Mac McClure, piano

Huapango, by Jose Pablo Moncayo
Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata; Gustavo Rivero Weber, conductor

Sonatina Breve para Oboe e Piano, by Anne Victorino D’Almeida
Courtney Miller, oboe; Minji Kwon, piano

Ikaria, by Fareed Haque
Fareed Haque, guitar

Detour Samba, by Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic
Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic, guitars

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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.

Ryan Opera Center Recital Series

Ryan Opera Center Recital Series

Spotlight on New Recordings

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