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Puerto Rican Composer Ernesto Cordero

May 5, 2024, 10:00 pm

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Guitarist and composer Ernesto Cordero was born in New York in 1946. He studied in Puerto Rico, Spain, Italy and the US. And he has become one of the most important voices among Puerto Rican composers. We will feature his vocal and orchestral work Estampas Criollas as well as a guitar concerto.

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Estampas Criollas, by Ernesto Cordero
Joel Prieto, Welmo Romero, vocal soloists; Sinfonieta Puertorriqueña; Orfeón San Juan Bautista; Guillermo Figueroa, conductor

Tres Cantigas Negras, Canto Negroriano, Danza del Cimarrón, and Elegia Negra, by Ernesto Cordero
Alexander-Sergei Ramirez, guitar

Concierto Festivo, by Ernesto Cordero
Pepe Romero, guitar; I Solisti di Zagreb

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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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Puerto Rican Composer Ernesto Cordero

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