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The Music of José Pablo Moncayo

July 6, 2025, 8:00 pm

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Jose Pablo Moncayo

The author of the very popular Huapango, which is considered by many to be the second Mexican national anthem. Moncayo composed several symphonic and chamber pieces of great beauty and grandeur. Fiesta pays tribute to this giant of the 20th century music.

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Scenes 1,2,3 from La mulata de Cordoba
Armando Gama, baritone; Gabriela Thierry, mezzo-soprano; Mauricio Esquivel, tenor; Sergio Meneses, bass; Gustavo Cuatli, tenor; Solistas Ensemble del INBA; Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra; Juan Carlos Lomonaco, conductor

Sonata para viola y piano
Mikhail Zemtsov, viola; Irina Shishkina, piano

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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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The Music of José Pablo Moncayo

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