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."
Recent Orchestral Pieces from Chile and Brazil: Fiesta continues its series showcasing recently written pieces from Latin America. We’ll hear music by Chilean composer Hernan Ramírez as well as Brazilian composers Roberto Prado and Felipe Monteforte.
Two Important Mexican Composers: Silvestre Revueltas was a student of Carlos Chavez and their musical friendship inspired both to reach new musical heights. Fiesta presents compositions by these two great twentieth-century composers.