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Two Major Works from Brazil and Argentina

March 31, 2024, 10:00 pm

Francisco Mignone- Brazilian National Archives [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

In this program, Fiesta’s showcases two monumental pieces from the Latin American repertoire, a piano quintet by Argentine composer Constantino Gaito and a full scale post-romantic piano concerto by Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone.

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Piano Quintet, Op. 24, by Constantino Gaito
Agustina Herrera, piano; Sarastro String Quartet

Piano Concerto, by Francisco Mignone
Clélia Iruzun, piano; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Jac van Steen, conductor

Tango, by Francisco Mignone
Marcel Worms, 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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