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Concierto Imaginario

September 15, 2024, 10:00 pm

Orchestra of the Americas (photo by Steven Pisano) Feast of Music from New York City, United States, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Fiesta presents an imaginary concert featuring an overture by Spanish-Mexican composer José María Cheavez, an orchestral suite from Brazilian Alberto Nepomuceno and a violin concerto by the Argentinean Luis Gianneo.

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Obertura La Huerfanita, by José María Chávez
Orchestra of the Americas; Benjamin Juarez Echenique, conductor

Suite antique, Op. 11, by Alberto Nepomuceno
English Chamber Orchestra; Neil Thomson, conductor

Concierto Aymará, Para Violín y Orquesta, by Luis Gianneo
Orquesta Sinfónica De Salta; Tatiana Samouil, violin; Luis Gorelik, conductor

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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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Concierto Imaginario

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