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Padre Antonio Soler

November 10, 2024, 10:00 pm

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Antonio Soler was a prominent Spanish composer who linked the late baroque and early classical periods. Fiesta will feature his chamber music as well as his newly recorded music for the harpsichord.

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Sonata in B flat major R.62

Fandango
David Schrader, harpsichord

Harpsichord Quintet No. 6 in G minor
David Schrader, harpsichord; Chicago Baroque Ensemble

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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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Padre Antonio Soler

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