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Latin American Guitar Music

February 22, 2020, 7:00 pm

Jason Vieaux (Photo: Tyler Boye)

Guitar music is one of the strongest points and Latin American and Spanish music. In this program, 19th century guitar music from Perú as well as a selection by some of the most important Latin American guitar players from the past.

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Plegaria y Canto, by Carlos Rafael Rivera
Cavatina Duo, Desirée Ruhstrat, violin

Andante in F minor and Rondo in G Major, by Mathías Maestro
Alexander-Serguei Ramirez, guitar

Minuet No. 4 in E minor, Minuet No. 2 in E minor, Minuet No. 15 in A major, by Pedro Ximénez
Alexander-Serguei Ramirez, guitar

Danza de los amantes, by Francisco González
The Ambar Music Group

Don Noel, by Nelson Gómez
The Ambar Music Group

Sonata for Guitar, Op. 47, by Alberto Ginastera
Jason Vieaux (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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