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Latin American Sonatas

August 5, 2023, 7:00 pm

Fiesta presents sonatas for the viola, cello and clarinet by the Brazilian composer Breno Blauth and Argentine composers Constantino Gaito and Carlos Guastavino.

Playlist

Cello Sonata in F Minor, Op. 26, by Constantino Gaito
Nicole Peña Comas, cello; Hugo Llanos Campos, piano

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, by Carlos Guastavino
Michael Collins, clarinet; Michael McHale, piano

Viola Sonata, by Breno Blauth
Barbara Westphal, viola; Christian Ruvolo, 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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Latin American Sonatas

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