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Great Guitar Players: Alvaro Pierri

January 28, 2023, 7:00 pm

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Coming from a family of guitar players and guitar teachers, Alvaro Pierri is one of today’s most prestigious classical guitarists. We’ll listen to some guitar solo pieces as well as Alvaro with different instrumental ensembles.

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Canciones Populares Espanolas for Violin And Guitar, by Manuel de Falla
Alvaro Pierri, guitar; Angèle Dubeau, violin

Etudes Nos 1,4,7,9,12, by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Alvaro Pierri, guitar

Tres Danzas Concertantes, by Leo Brouwer
Alvaro Pierri, guitar; Ensemble Amati

Prelude No. 5, by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Alvaro Pierri, guitar

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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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