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."
Classical Christmas in Latin America: Priest and composer, Jose Mauricio de Nunes Garcia wrote several pieces celebrating Christmas. In this program Fiesta celebrates the season with a recording of his mass,“Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao”.
A Kaleidoscope of 20th Century Latin American Music: Fiesta showcases a variety of Latin American music by 20th century composers including Jose Pablo Moncayo from Mexico, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri from Brazil, and Esteban Benzecry from Argentina.