MUSICIANS
We are so honored to have Alfredo "Tape" Rubin take part in this tour. He will perform on Sunday, December 11 (International Tango Day) a live concert on the terraza of our hotel, which will be simultaneously broadcast to the world. The chance to be there in person is absolutely huge!
Alfredo "Tape" Rubin
Considered to be one of the most outstanding creators of the current tango scene, Alfredo Rubín began in 1990 to traverse the milonga circuit constantly, performing guitar and voice classics of the tango repertoire as well as his own compositions.
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In 1997, he founded the Cuarteto Almagro, one of the most representative groups of the new generation, where he worked as arranger, bassist and singer, working both in Argentina and abroad until 2001. With this group he recorded the album "Hemisferios".
There he began a joint work with pianist Fabrizio Pieroni, forming a compositional duo for instrumental music and songs.
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In May 2004 he presented "Reina noche", in guitar trio with Las Guitarras de Puente Alsina (Mariano Heler and Adrián Lacruz), an album that has been taken as a reference for composers and performers and honored during the Festival y Mundial de Tango 2014. It also inspired a theatrical version ("Reina noche, mejor será en tus brazos") written by Ramiro Gigliotti.
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With this same formation he recorded a second album, "Lujo total" presented in June 2009 at the CAFF and in July 2010 at the Teatro Solís in Montevideo, Uruguay, as guests of the Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro.
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Continuing to pursue the language he created in his two previous albums, he recorded in 2018 a third album, "Cambiando cordaje", in association with the guitar trio Lacruz, Heler and Leandro Nikitoff.
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Several of his compositions are heard today in Buenos Aires, incorporated into the repertoire of different orchestras, groups and singers.
Cucuza Castiello
Of Cucuza, many things can be said: achievements, recognitions… his wife is always telling him to mention the “Outstanding Personality of the Culture” award, the times he has performed on the stage of the Teatro Colón, the tours to Europe, Korea and Hong Kong (also, she tells him to be a little bit more careful).
What Cucuza likes to tell of his career is how he sang with Floreal, with Charly, with Rubén Juárez and with El Diego Maradona (watch video). He likes to recount that he has been singing for 15 years in the Bar El Faro in his own cycle “El TANGO vuelve al Barrio!!!!” (Tango returns to the neighborhood!” But there is nothing more true, more important than saying that he is a singer, a Tango singer, a singer from a certain neighborhood, a certain region…
And he is a singer, because he has been listening to and singing tango since he was 5 years old, since he had short legs and no belly, and today without the one and with the other, he continues to sing tango. He sings tangos, tangos that are often sung, and that everyone knows are good; he sings tangos that are not often sung, or listened to.
Cucuza is such a tango singer that everything he sings comes out as tango. He sings a song by Leonardo Favio or Sandro and it comes out as tango, he sings something by the Babasóncios or El Flaco and it comes out as tango.
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When Cucuza sings, he does it with the "Trío Inestable" (ever-changing trio) and it is worth mentioning that sometimes it can be with only one musician, which is usually his son and guitarist Mateo, with whom he has a duet called "CastielLos." That is what Cucuza does, he sings tangos, and occasionally he writes lyrics and music to make tangos... Cucuza is a classic, but a classic of Barrio (the neighborhood) and (for a while already) a classic of today. Cucuza is what he does, and does what he is…
Cucuza has organized a special public concert in the Bar "El Faro" to coincide with our group's visit. The concert will take place on Friday, December 16.
Hugo Satorre & Emiliano Faryna
Latin-Grammy-Nominee Hugo Satorre was born in Buenos Aires on the July 15, 1977. He began his music education at the Juan José Castro Conservatory in 1993. He studied with the most remarkable bandoneonists of our times including Walter Rios, Carlos Lazzari and Juan José Mosalini.
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He has shared the stage with legends of the bandoneon world such as Leopoldo Federico, Emilio Balcarce and Jose Libertela. In 1998 he finished his undergraduate course in Argentine Music at the prestigious Universidad de San Martín. He also obtained a Law Degree in the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2004.
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Hugo has performed in the most prestigious theatres and concert halls throughout the world, such as the Sydney Opera House (Australia), The Esplanade (Singapore), the Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles, US), Harris Theatre (Chicago, US), Dewan Filharmonik Petronas (Malaysia), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the Shanghai Oriental Art Center (Shanghai, China). In March 2012, he was the solo accompanist for Tenor Placido Domingo on stage set up in the widest avenue of the world in Buenos Aires, 9 de Julio Avenue, in front of 120,000 people.
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In 2016 he released his first solo album, dedicated solely to the works of the world-renowned arranger Maximo Mori. Hugo is the 2013 Latin Grammy nominee with his "Duo Ramírez-Sattorre, Piazzolla de Camara”. He is also a member of these international tango projects: Quatrotango (2003-2011), Orquesta Victoria (2008-2020), Duo Ramirez Satorre ( 2005-present), Otros Aires (2004-2013), Latin grammy winer Tanghetto (2003-2006), La Tubatango (2004-2011) and “Tango Fire” (2005-2016). He also has a Duo with guitarist Emiliano Faryna.
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Hugo is a dedicated pedagogue in bandoneon education. He has compiled and written 10 books (more to be released soon) free for download for the international bandoneon community in multiple languages in his website http://hugoSatorre.com.ar/. He currently teaches bandoneón, tango history and musicality for dancers all over the world.
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Emiliano Faryna was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. He is a composer, arranger and performer, who plays popular music on classical guitar, electric guitar and on guitarron.
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Emiliano plays and arranges a wide range of Argentine rhythms for diverse groups. Some of his main projects include:
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Trio de Guitarras - Tango: Classic & new works
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Faryna/Satorre Duo - Tango: A bandoneon-guitar duo, playing danceable music
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Rudi Flores Trio - Chamame: A guitar trio
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Ventarron & Varela - Tango: Playing tango in a modern style
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Colacho Brizuela Quartet - Tango & Folklore: An instrumental group, including guitars and double bass
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Alejandro Brittes - Chamame: A tipical chamame group, playing music from Corrientes
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Luisa Calcumil - Patagonian Folklore: Playing music from the South of Argentina
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Un Vagon de Tango - Tango: A Piazzolla-style Quintet
Hugo will be our host at his amazing "Casa Azul," an idyllic house / venue on the delta in Tigre, which is only accessible by boat. We'll enjoy a day of music, food, river and great company on Thursday, December 15 (with a rain date of Saturday, December 17).
Juan & Pato will be part of the day of music at "Casa Azul," and we'll be seeing them throughout the nine days of the tour.
Juan Villarreal & Patricio Crom
Juan and Patricio met on stage at the Milonga del Moran in 2010 in Buenos Aires.Patricio had come to play with his quintet "Malo Conocido" and Juan went to sing as a guest with Hernán "Cucuza" Castiello.​
Shortly afterwards they met again at the Club Atlético Fernández Fierro and decided to meet with the excuse of rehearsing some tangos, especially the tango "Marión" with which Patricio was very enthusiastic.​
From that meeting the Duo Villarreal Crom was born and they started a long journey performing in Festivals, Milongas and halls of Buenos Aires and different countries of South America and Europe, sharing stages with great musicians and dancers such as Chino Laborde & Dipi Kvitko, Osvaldo Peredo, Pablo Rodriguez & Corina Herrera, Rodrigo Fonti & Majo Martirena, Hernán "Cucuza" Castiello and others.
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Juan Villarreal and Patricio Crom released in 2012 their first album "De corte romántico" in which they include versions of some of the most romantic tangos and waltzes recorded by the great orchestras in the golden age.
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In 2015 they released a second album called "Cinco Otoños" with milonguero classics and their own compositions.
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In 2019 they presented "En la luna de Valencia", an album that was recorded in Valencia, Spain with guest artists such as Maestro Raúl Kiokio and the singers Nelson Scarlatto and Gavión.
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In 2022, they released "D'arienzo en guitarras" their new album dedicated to the King of Compás, Juan D'arienzo and with stellar guests such as the singer Pablo Ramos, son Osvaldo Ramos (the last great singer of D'arienzo), Trio Malamado and the guitarist Guido Iacopetti. They have already toured Europe and the United States, presenting this album with amazing audience feedback.​
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C’est Picó Tango
C'est Pico Tango Duo will perform on Sunday, December 18 at our final tour party.
C’est Picó Tango is an electric guitar and piano duo with a unique sound. The mixture between these instruments seeks to emulate the essence of the great Orquestas Milongueras adapted to an original musical ensemble.
For more than 10 years, Guido Iacopetti and Ezequiel Aguero have played together in different outstanding groups in the cultural circuit of Buenos Aires. They are creative members of the Sexteto Fantasma, with which they made five European tours, performing at Edinburgh International Tango Festival in Scotland, Festival Le Printemps du Tango à Mulhouse, Festival Tarbes en Tango, France, Foyer of the Wiesbaden Opera, Germany, among many other places.
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Their repertoire includes the “clásicos bailables," including De Angelis, D’Arienzo, Pugliese, Di Sarli), Waltzes, Milongas, new Tangos, and Argentinian Folk Music. Many of their own compositions are interpreted by other tango groups, representing a new cultural heritage of the 21st century Tango.
Listen:
Rosa Principe
A porteña, Rosa Principe was born in Buenos Aires, in the neighborhood of Caballito. In the year 2000, at the age of 9, she began her artistic career on the stage of the Mataderos fair as a reciter of traditional poetry.
She was trained as a guitarist in institutions and with great masters of the Argentine guitar, Luis Gómez (teacher of great guitarists such as Carlos Martínez), Juan Falú at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory, and her stage partner who was also her teacher Nicolás "Colacho" Brizuela.
She won first prize in composition at the Boedo Tango Festival in 2017, with the song "Verano Azul," (lyrics and music by Rosa Principe).
She participated in different events and festivals such as Guitarras de Mundo (2018-2020-2021), including performing in the festival's opening concert in 2021.
She participated in the festival "Nosotras movemos al mundo" 2021, playing Malambo genre with which she later won an interpretive distinction "Special Mention Best Accompaniment" in the National Championship.
She participated in the presentation of the album tribute to Bill Evans (SONY) by Nicolas Brizuela Usina el Arte 2018 Teatro Vera de Corrientes as part of the Jazz Festival 2018.
In informal settings, she has accompanied singers such as Tomas Lipán (folckore), Nestor Fabián (80th birthday) and received unexpected congratulations from the orchestra conductor Daniel Baremboim who was having lunch in a place where she was playing Tango.
Nowadays she has a duo with the singer Marina Ríos with whom she plays Tango in many milongas and bars in Buenos Aires; she also accompanies "LULÚ Tanguera" and other singers.
Rosa is dedicated to the teaching of her instrument and to sharing various artistic projects with her colleagues. She is currently working on arrangements for her first CD.
Rosa Principe will perform a full set as part of the December 11 Tango en la Terraza event and livestream.