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Latin American Piano Concertos

August 15, 2020, 7:00 pm

Florencia Di Concilio

Some of the most fantastic piano concertos for the last two centuries have been composed in Latin America. On our program we will feature two piano concerti by some lesser known composers Hekel Tavares (Brazil) and Florencia Di Concilio (Uruguay) along with solo piano pieces by the Brazilian Francisco Mignone.

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Valsa da Esquina No. 7, by Francisco Mignone
Marcel Worms, piano

Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, by Florencia Di Concilio
Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra; Enrique Graff, piano; Thomas Herzog, conductor

Valsa da Esquina No. 12, by Francisco Mignone
Marcel Worms, piano

Piano Concerto No. 2 “In Brazilian Forms”, by Hekel Tavares
Arnaldo Cohen, piano; Orquestra Sinfônica Petrobras Pró Música; Roberto Tibiriçá, 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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