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Great Chamber Works of Latin America

August 22, 2020, 7:00 pm

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Latin America has a huger treasure of chamber music, from the 16th century to the present day, Fiesta will visit some of the most remarkable compositions.

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Afro, by Paquito D’Rivera
Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet; Assad Brothers, guitars

Tres movimientos porteños sobre ritmos de tango, by José Bragato
KAIA String Quartet

Zarabandeo for Clarinet and piano, by Arturo Marquez
Jorge Montilla, clarinet; Hamilton Tescarollo, piano

Rhythms for Three, by Edna Alejandra Longoria
Trio Casals

String Quartet No. 2, by Francisco Mignone
Cuarteto Latinoamericano

Las mujeres son las moscas, from 3 Spanish Songs, by Francisco Mignone
Cuarteto Latinoamericano

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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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