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."
A Mexican Concerto: Fiesta presents a full concert of Mexican music by composers from three different generations. We’ll hear Candelario Huizar’s Imagenes, Carlos Chavez’s Toccata for Percussion, and Eduardo Angulo’s Concerto for Harp and Strings.
Puerto Rican Composer Ernesto Cordero: Guitarist and composer, Ernesto Cordero has become one of the most important voices among Puerto Rican composers. We will feature his vocal and orchestral works as well as his guitar concerto.