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A Kaleidoscope of 20th Century Latin American Music

January 4, 2026, 8:00 pm

Esteban Benzecry [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Fiesta showcases the kaleidoscopic variety of Latin American music shown through pieces of the great 20^th century composers José Pablo Moncayo, from Mexico, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, from Brazil, as well as the living Argentine composer Esteban Benzecry.

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Cumbres, by José Pablo Moncayo
Louisville Orchestra; Robert Whitney, conductor

Chôro for Piano & Orchestra, by Camargo Guarnieri
Olga Kopylova, piano; Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo; Roberto Tibiriçá, conductor

Clarinet Concerto, by Esteban Benzecry
Mariano Rey, clarinet; Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Pablo Boggiano, 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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