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3 Great Latin American Living Composers: Manuel Orrego Salas, Sergio Cervetti, and Arturo Márquez

November 14, 2020, 7:00 pm

Composer Arturo Márquez Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

We feature three living composers in this program the Mexican Arturo Márquez with his Danzón No. 7 and Chilean Manuel Orrego Salas’ Symphony No. 2 and Uruguayan Sergio Cervetti with his work, Consolamentum.

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Danzón No. 7, by Arturo Márquez
Simon Bolivar Orchestra; Gustavo Dudamel

Consolamentum, by Sergio Cervetti
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra; Petr Vronsky, conductor

Symphony No 2, Op. 39, by Juan Orrego-Salas
Louisville Orchestra; Robert Whitney, 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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3 Great Latin American Living Composers: Manuel Orrego Salas, Sergio Cervetti, and Arturo Márquez

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