Authentic Piazzolla Tangos

Concert

For decades, Astor Piazzolla’s music has been performed worldwide by virtually every imaginable musical ensemble. However, rare are the opportunities to hear the music of the great champion of tango nuevo performed by the very formation for which much of it was composed: a tango quintet, where violin, piano, electric guitar, and double bass join the emblematic sound of the bandoneón—the bellows-driven instrument of which Piazzolla was an undisputed virtuoso.

The legendary Argentine musician toured the world with his quintet, performing in cities such as Cologne, Amsterdam, New York, and Montreal, where the ensemble gave a now-iconic concert at the Jazz Festival in 1984. Paying tribute to Piazzolla’s quintet, this concert presents his music as Piazzolla intended.

Artists

Jonathan Goldman
A passionate advocate of the bandoneón, award-winning musician Jonathan Goldman was a member of Quartango, Canada’s first tango band from 2007 to 2017. Their 2014 recording, Encuentro, won a Juno Award for best instrumental album and an Opus Award (Album of the year – World music) in 2015. He won another Opus Award with Quartango for the album J’aime les nuits de Montréal (2018). He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Regina and Saskatoon Symphony Orchestras, Symphony Nova Scotia, I Musici de Montréal, the Orchestre symphonique de l’Isle, and the Signature Symphony of Tulsa.

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Zoé Dumais
Zoé studied classical violin at the Conservatoire de musique de Rimouski and at the Conservatoire de Montréal with Johanne Pothier. She completed a master’s degree with Claude Richard at the Université de Montréal and studied jazz violin with Stéphane Allard at Concordia University. Strongly attracted to genre-defying music-making and improvisation, she is one of the founding members of Sagapool, founded in 1999, and winner of the Félix for Instrumental Album of the Year and the Innovation Award at the Canadian Folk Music Gala in 2012, as well as Instrumental Group of the Year in 2008 and the Galaxie Award from Radio-Canada.

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Pablo Seib
Originally from Buenos Aires, Pablo began his classical music studies on double bass with members of the renowned Teatro Colón orchestra. After just one year, he was accepted at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree under the direction of Catherine Garneau. At the Université de Montréal, he completed a Master’s degree in classical performance with Marc Denis and a DESS with Jacques Beaudoin. Pablo is a member of the Che Tangazo orchestra. He performs both as a performer and in the studio with Montreal bands and artists from outside the city. Over the years, he has shared the stage with Coco Trivisonno, Nestor Vaz, Luis Grinhauz, and Sergio Tiempo, among others.

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Pablo Bonacina
Pablo Bonacina studied Classical Guitar at the Montreal Conservatory of Music, then composition and arrangement in Jazz. Fascinated by the characteristics of sound and its manipulation, he’s been involved with electroacoustics, sound design as well as computer-assisted recording techniques. In parallel to his activities as a guitarist, he composes and produces music for film, dance, and theater, and creates sound installations and environments for various artist collectives.

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Sebastian Verdugo
Chilean pianist Sebastian Verdugo completed a doctorate in performance from the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Marc Durand and Jimmy Brière in 2017 and obtained a master’s degree from the same institution in 2011. A graduate of the Escuela Moderna de Musica in Chile under the direction of Pailina Zamora and Mercedes Veglia, and recipient of the largest scholarship awarded by the Chilean government for his master’s and doctoral studies, Sebastian has taken part in numerous advanced training courses in the United States (Mammoth Lakes piano seminar and Chautauqua festival), France (Classics Abroad), and Canada (Banff Centre for the Arts, Orford Music), where he has worked with renowned pianists and teachers.

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