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Living Composers from Mexico

May 11, 2025, 10:00 pm

Diana Syrse

Fiesta presents a selection of delightful pieces by living Mexican composers including flute and guitar works by María Granillo and Juanra Urrusti and compositions by Julio César Oliva and Diana Syrse.

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Beldad y fuerza, by Diana Syrse
Jonathan Borja, flute; Hector Landa guitar

4 Études, by Julio César Oliva
Julio César Oliva, guitar

What lies within, by Juanrra Urrusti
Jonathan Borja, flute; Hector Landa guitar

Sibilas, by María Granillo
Evangelina Reyes, flute; Omán Kaminsky, guitar

Quetzalcóatl for Orchestra, by Diana Syrse
Musikkollegium Winterthur; Roberto González-Monjas, 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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