The Art of Piazzolla's Tango - Closing Concert

Closing Concert of the 2026 Festival

Jonathan Goldman has never been able to resist the gravitational pull of the emblematic tango music of Astor Piazzolla. This concert features Piazzolla’s music in new arrangements prepared by Goldman, for bandoneon and string quintet. Highlighting Piazzolla’s tango fugues—the pieces that Piazzolla wrote in the spirit of J.S. Bach—this concert also features Goldman’s poignant interpretation of Five Tango Sensations, the work that was Piazzolla’s final studio recording.

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. Deeply drawn to musical creation and improvisation, she is one of the founding members of Sagapool, a group founded in 1999 that won the Félix for Instrumental Album of the Year and the Innovation Award at the Canadian Folk Music Gala in 2012, as well as the Instrumental Group of the Year award in 2008 and the Galaxie Award from Radio-Canada. Sagapool has toured extensively across Canada, the U.S., China, France and Belgium.

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Mathilde Legeret
Born into a family of musicians, Mathilde began her musical journey in France, where she started singing and playing the violin. After high school, she decided to further her violin studies in Paris, before obtaining her bachelor’s degree at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in 2022. She now holds a master’s degree and a Diploma of Advanced Professional Studies in classical performance from the Université of Montreal. Passionate about the diversity that music offers, she further developed her interest in tango during her years in Paris and was part of a quintet performing the repertoire of Astor Piazzolla for three years.

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Pemi Paull
Pemi Paull is a Montreal-based Canadian violist, chamber musician, and educator acclaimed for his versatility across contemporary, historical, and multi-genre music. Founder and artistic director of the innovative chamber collective Warhol Dervish, he is also principal viola of Ensemble Caprice, recording on Analekta and Atma and touring internationally. Paull has premiered numerous new works, performed widely as a soloist and collaborator, and has recorded over 70 commercial albums spanning classical, new music, and indie genres. A former president of the Canadian Viola Society, he is equally respected for his artistry and teaching.

Juan Sebastian Delgado
Award-winning cellist Juan Sebastian Delgado is deeply engaged with new music, improvisation, and multidisciplinary collaboration. He has led artistic projects in 28 countries and collaborated with renowned composers including Kaija Saariaho, Luis Naon, Chuck Israels, and Alcides Lanza. His artistic research has been featured nationally on CBC Radio Ideas and on the television program Découverte (Virtuoso Brain). Delgado earned his doctorate in performance from McGill University, focusing on contemporary music and nuevo tango. He is a founding member of the marimba–cello duo Stick&Bow with percussionist Krystina Marcoux (Prix Opus Artist of the Year and International Achievement 2024), performing extensively across Canada, Europe, and South America.

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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. Pablo plays with various classbaical orchestras in Quebec, including the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières and the Orchestre symphonique de l’Estuaire. A post-pandemic composer, in 2024 he finalized the first album of the original music collective Rewild Jazz Tango.

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