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Participants à cet évènement

• Alejandro Schwarz

  Alejandro Schwarz

  Alejandro Schwarz was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  He began his professional career as a rock guitarist at the age of 18, but then later became interested in tango music after he met Anibal Arias, Rodolfo Mederos and Chocho Ruiz, teachers from the tango department of the EMPA who encouraged and supported him. Schwarz studied not only tango music, but also harmony and counterpoint with Gustavo Beytelman. Passionate about tango from the past, Alejandro never ceases to imagine the future of this music.In 1996 Alejandro founded and joined a key group in the modernization of tango, the  orchestra “El Arranque” (Argentina) , with several national and international tours. In 2001 “El Arranque ” was invited to the Lincoln Center where they performed with Winton Marsalis. He recorded two CDs with this group : “TANGO” [Vaivén, 1998] and “CABULERO” [Epsa, 2000] which essentially brought together his arrangements and compositions for this ensemble. Later on, Schwarz became involved in many other projects such as “34 Puñaladas” (Argentina) and Quinteto “La Bordona” (Argentina). In 2001, he moved to France and later founded, together with the bandoneonist Victor Hugo Villena, the Quinteto El Después.  Together with this group he toured in Europe and Japan, collaborated with the singer Misia and with cellist Henri Demarquette, and released four albums: “COMO UN TREN” [ 2011]”; “CALLES LEJANAS” [ 2012]; “LIVE” [ 2013] and “TOGETHER”[ 2014].Mr Schwarz has accompanied, arranged and recorded for singers like Silvana Deluigi (Argentina),Haydée Alba (Argentina), Anna Saeki (Japan), Julia Migenes (United States), Debora Russ (Argentina), Claudia Pannone (Argentina), José Luis Barreto (Uruguay), amongst others. These collaborations extended his discography which also includes: “CANTO DE SIRENA” / ANNA SAEKI & TIEMPO SUR [Rentrak, 2001]; “LA ARGENTINA” / JULIA MIGENES [TREMA, 2003]TREMA, 2003]; “OMOI” / ANNA SAEKI (Rentrak Japan Co. Ltd., 2003); “YO VENGO A OFRECER MI CORAZON” / ANNA SAEKI live concert (Moon music Ltd., 2009) and “TANGOS PENDIENTES” / Debora Russ [ 2013]Alejandro has composed and arranged both traditional and modern tango in his own projects for more than twenty years. Furthermore, he has composed and arranged for other groups and artists such as: orchestral arrangements for the BBC Orchestra (England), Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Switzerland), Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie and a Double Concerto For Bandoneon and accordéon requested by the Grand Avignon Conservatory (France). His compositions have been performed in prestigious festivals such as: the Tango Festival in Buenos Aires (Argentina),  Loch Shiel Spring Festival (Scotland), Moritzburg Festival (Germany), and in the BBC series Discovering Music, among others

• Ariel Eberstein

  Ariel Eberstein

  Ariel Eberstein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1979 and discovered the double bass at the age of 16. In 1997, he began studying the double bass in Buenos Aires with Miguel Angel Villaroel. Thanks to his commitment to this instrument, in 2002, he was granted a scholarship from the Fundación Antochas. Only 4 years after starting the double bass, he continued studying in Vienna with James Rapport (Wiener Kammerorchester) and Andrew Ackerman (Concentus Musicus). Ariel later moved to Belgium in order to continue his studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels where he completed his master’s degree, including a one-year Erasmus exchange program at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in 2010 with Quirijn van Regteren Altena (Schoemberg Ensemble).Ariel has worked with many world-famous conductors and has played in the most important Belgian orchestras such as the Vlaamse Opera, National Orchestra of Belgium, De Filharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Opera Royal de Wallonie, De Munt/La Monnaie and Brussels Philharmonic. He also has given concerts in the most important concert halls of Europe and America, including Concertgebouw and Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Musikverein and Concerthaus (Vienna), Festspielehaus (Salzburg), Cité de la Musique (Paris), Bozar and Flagey (Brussels), Polin (Warschaw), Cadogan Hall (London), The Usher Hall (Edinburgh), Casa de la Musica (Ecuador), Teatro Mayor Santo Domingo (Colombia), Usina del Arte and Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires). Since 2014, Ariel Eberstein has specialized in tango music and leads the Brussels-based and internationally renowned tango ensemble SONICO (more info below). Thanks to this project, Ariel has become an artist of reference in interpreting music from the “tango vanguardia” period. In July 2018, SONICO went on tour to Argentina to present their first album “EDUARDO ROVIRA: LA OTRA VANGUARDIA” in Buenos Aires as part of the Tango BA Festival, as the main international guest at the festival. In March 2019, the European release of SONICO’s album took place at BOZAR/Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels as the only European group invited to the concert series “100 YEARS OF TANGO.”In July 2018, Ariel was invited by the well-known Argentine pianist Martha Argerich to participate in the closing concert of her festival in Hamburg. This festival resulted in a triple CD entitled “Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich” on the record label Avantimusic. Eberstein also appeared on the record “Reunion” by Argentine composer and four-time Grammy award winner Fernando Otero, released by Etcetera Records in December 2018. Eberstein then joined Otero’s 2018 European tour as a double bassist.Together with violin virtuoso Michael Guttman, Ariel gives regular performances at various festivals and concert halls: Pietrasanta in Concerto (IT), Odessa Classics (UKR), Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (BE), etc.In December 2019, Ariel Eberstein recorded SONICO’s second album “EDUARDO ROVIRA: INEDITO E INCONCLUSO”. During the same year Eberstein participated in the festival “Le Printemps du violon” together with the bandoneonist Olivier Manouri in Paris. He was also invited to the POLIN festival in Warsaw as the artist/curator with a program around the influence of Judaism in the tango.

• Lysandre Donoso

  Lysandre Donoso

  Winner of several international awards, Lysandre Donoso is a leading soloist and is frequently called upon to perform with the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, etc… He regularly performs in the greatest halls in Europe like the Royal Albert Hall (London), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Salle Pleyel (Paris), the Bozar (Brussels), the Cité de la Musique (Paris) and the Berlin Konzerthaus.He started his studies at the age of 6 years old at the Conservatoire de Lyon. Nourished by his diverse origins, including Latin-American folk music by his Chilean father and the bandoneon he inherited from his Polish grandfather, he began to be passionate about Tango and Argentinian music and quickly became a specialist of the genre. He studied at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (Codarts) under the teaching of Gustavo Beytelmann and Víctor Villena. In parallel of his studies, he has been multiplying the professional experiences: the Silbando orchestra, the Emedea quintet, the Sónico ensemble, the Caliente quartet and Juan José Mosalini’s grand orchestra among others.Lysandre is now a reference in tango and one of the most requested bandoneonists in Europe. He is a leading expert in the music of Astor Piazzolla thanks to an important effort of research, transcription and editing of his lost or forgotten work. He’s been rewarded the prize of best bandoneon player in the competition organized by the Fundación Astor Piazzolla in 2021.His discography is extensive, with recordings of various styles: classical music (« Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich » with the violinist Michael Guttman), French song (forthcoming discs with the singer Juliette and the band Les Ogres de Barback), jazz (Lalo Zanelli, Jean-Michel Proust), besides tango. He has been invited to travel to festivals with international dimension: Odessa Classics, Martha Argerich Festival (Hamburg), Week-end Tango à la Philharmonie (Paris), Tango BA Festival y Mundial (Buenos Aires), Trans-Siberian Art Festival (Novosibirsk), Pietrasanta in Concerto, Crans-Montana Classics. He also performed in South Korea, Colombia, Canada, etc…