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Guitar Music from Spain, Brazil & Mexico

April 26, 2026, 8:00 pm

Manuel Barrueco (photo by Victor Vidal)

Guitar music is one of the many strengths of Spanish and Latin American music for both popular and classical genres. We’ll showcase remarkable compositions for the guitar by Spanish composer Joaquín Turina, Brazilian composer Almeida Prado and Mexican composer Manuel Ponce.

Playlist

Homenaje a Tárrega, by Joaquín Turina
Julian Bream, guitar

Sonata No. 1, by Almeida Prado
Fabio Shiro Monteiro, guitar

Twenty variations on Las Folias de España, by Manuel Ponce
John Williams, guitar

Scherzino mexicano, by Manuel Ponce
Manuel Barrueco, guitar

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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.