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Claudio Santoro: Two Compositions

January 21, 2023, 7:00 pm

Cláudio Santoro (Brazilian National Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Fiesta presents two masterpieces by Brazilian composer Claudio Santoro. His beautiful Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano and his monumental Symphony No. 5.

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Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano, by Claudio Santoro
Emmanuele Baldini, violin; Alessandro Santoro, piano

Symphony No. 5, by Claudio Santoro
Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra; Neil Thomson, conductor

Toccata, by Claudio Santoro
Nelson Freire, piano

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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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