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A Guitar Showcase

March 29, 2026, 8:00 pm

Julian Bream (Photo: Georg Erlich (Georg.Erlich), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Fiesta’s host, composer Elbio Barilari pick some of his favorite Latin American and Spanish guitar music. Including performances by Abel Carlevaro, Eduardo Fernández, and Julian Bream.

Playlist

Excerpts from 12 Etudes, by Fernando Sor
Abel Carlevro, guitar

Retrats Catalans, by Leo Brouwer
Eduardo Fernández, guitar; English Chamber Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Guitar Concerto, by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Julian Bream, guitar; London Symphony Orchestra; André Previn, conductor

Danza de las hachas, from Fantasia para un Gentilhombre, by Joaquín Rodrigo
Andrés Segovia, guitar; Symphony of the Air; Enrique Jorda, 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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