Fiesta

SATURDAYS @ 10PM

Fiesta is devoted to Latino concert music and presents artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to listeners. The creative force behind this series is Elbio Barilari, an acclaimed composer, musician, performer and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Uruguayan-born Barilari says, "Fiesta features the hottest Latin-American music from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries."

5/23

Composer and Pianist Teresa Carreno: Born in Venezuela in 1853, Teresa Carreno was one the first Latin American women with a career as an international pianist, composer and teacher. Fiesta explores the life and music of this piano virtuoso nicknamed the “Valkyrie of the Piano."

 

5/30

Romantic Music from Argentina and Brazil: The Romantic period marked an explosion of creativity within Latin American music. Fiesta presents compositions by two composers during this time, the Argentine, Alberto Williams and the Brazilian, Henrique Oswald.