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Guitar, Piano and Orchestral Music from Colombia

July 5, 2026, 8:00 pm

Guitarist José Antonio Escobar

We’ll hear a selection of Colombian music by composer and guitar virtuoso Gentil Montaña and by living composers Amparo Ángel, was of the most prominent women composers on the continent, and by 102-year-old composer Luis Carlos Figueroa.

Playlist

Suite Colombiana No. 3, by Gentil Montaña
José Antonio Escobar, guitar

Preludio para piano No. 6 ‘Franz Liszt, homenaje a Chopin’, by Amparo Ángel
Mauricio Arias-Esguerra, piano

Suite for Orchestra, by Luis Carlos Figueroa
Colombia National Conservatory Symphony Orchestra; Guerassim Voronkov, conducto

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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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