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String Music by Living Latin American Composers

April 27, 2025, 10:00 pm

Miguel del Águila (photo by Donna Granata)

Elbio delves into recent works written for string instruments by living composers. We will hear compositions by the Chilean Eduardo Gamboa and Mexicans Francisco Cortés Álvarez, and Eduardo Angulo.

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3 Romances, by Eduardo Angulo

Trioxido de Cuerdas, by Francisco Cortés-Álvarez

Floresta, by Eduardo Gamboa
Trio Coghlan

Procesión de Locos, by Miguel del Aguila
Ashley Sandor Sidon, Erik J. Anderson, Jesus Morales, George Work, cellos

Allegro, from Quintet for Guitar and Strings, by Leo Brouwer
Fareed Haque, guitar; KAIA String Quartet

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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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String Music by Living Latin American Composers

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