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Four Latin American Composers We Need to Know Better

January 15, 2022, 7:00 pm

Luis Saglie

Host Elbio Barilari shares music of four composers we all need to know better: the Argentine Constantino Gaito, Chilean Luis Saglie, Mexican Jose Elizondo and Cuban Joaquin Nin. Four composers, who will stay with you after you hear their beautiful and energetic music.

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Estampas Mexicanas, by Jose Elizondo
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra; Petr Vronsky, conductor

Danza andaluza & Danza murciana, by Joaquín Nin
Martin Jones, piano

Canciones para Violeta, No. 2, Se juntan dos palomitas, by Luis Saglie
Hugo Llanos Campos, cello; Nicole Peña Comas, piano

String Quartet No. 1, Op. 23, by Constantino Gaito
Sarastro String Quartet

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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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