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Cuban Maestros

July 25, 2020, 7:00 pm

Leo Brouwer, left & Eric Pénicaud, right (Photo: Danielle Pénicaud, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons)

Fiesta visits Cuba to share some of most important composers from the island. From José White to Leo Browuer we will hear some of the greatest Cuban classical music.

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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.