Fiesta Latin-American Music with Elbio Barilari

February 9, 2025

Fiesta celebrates the extraordinary career of Robert Xavier Rodríguez with two of his greatest works. One based on the Aztec goddess Xochiquetzal and the other, the Mexican artist and pop icon Frida Kahlo.

January 26, 2025

Fiesta presents four outstanding orchestral works by contemporary and historical composers. We will hear the great Carlos Chávez Symphony No. 1 and José Pablo Moncayo’s miniature masterpiece Sinfonietta paired with recent works by Hebert Vázquez and Mauricio Zyman.

January 12, 2025

Fiesta offers a series of glamorous and intimate combinations of instruments that are not often presented together: oboe and guitar, clarinet and guitar, viola and guitar, as well as some ensembles integrating all of the above. Works by Isaac Albéniz, Radamés Gnattali, and Astor Piazzolla will be featured.

December 29, 2024

This imaginary concert starts with Catalonian composer Josep Fabrega from the 18th century, continues with a Mexican Romantic composer Ricardo Castro from the 19th century and ends with a 20th century symphonic poem from the Argentinian Carlos López Buchardo

December 15, 2024

Fiesta’s Mexican concert starts with an overture by Spanish Mexican composer Rodolfo Halffter, continues with a lively piece by a Mexican living composer Hebert Vázquez, revisits the work of the 19th century genius Ricardo Castro and ends with Carlos Chávez’s Romantic Symphony conducted by the composer himself

December 1, 2024

There is enormous treasure of Latin American romantic and post-romantic music composed in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Fiesta presents a selection of delightful chamber pieces by Brazilian composer Glauco Velázquez, Mexican composer Gustavo Campa and Argentine composer Constantino Gaito.

November 17, 2024

In this program Fiesta present a selection of three pieces from Mexican living composers Eduardo Angulo, Leonardo Coral, and Arturo Rodríguez as well as a rarely heard oboe concerto by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.

November 3, 2024

The Day of the Dead is about the honoring and paying tribute to one’s ancestors.

October 20, 2024

One of the most prestigious string quartets in the world, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano has recorded the standard repertoire as well as a number of albums dedicated to Latin American music.