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."
Concerti from Argentina and Brazil: Both Argentina and Brazil have strong musical traditions. On today's program we will hear an oboe concerto by Argentinian composer, Eduardo Alonso-Crespo and a piano concerto by Brazilian, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri.
A Lost Baroque Opera: Domenico Zipoli was a remarkable Italian baroque composer. In 1717 he migrated to South America where he created significant musical repertoire. Today, Fiesta presents his “lost” opera, dedicated to Saint Ignacio de Loyola.