“Romance de Tango,” a new two-hour production from Leonardo Suarez Paz’s Cuartetango Music + Dance Company, features an approximately 11-member ensemble consisting of six dancers, the Cuartetango String Quartet, a bandoneónist, a pianist, and two singers. The production incorporates all expressions of the tango art: music, poetry, song, and dance in an exciting evening of traditional and Nuevo Tango. A smaller production of 8-9 performers is also available.Cuartetango celebrates its rich musical culture and opens limitless possibilities for musical expressions that speak of our time. Acclaimed by the press as “tango royalty,” violinist and director Leonardo Suarez Paz grew up in the midst of the Nuevo Tango revolution, alongside its greatest protagonists: his father Fernando Suarez Paz (violinist with Astor Piazzolla's Nuevo Tango Quintet), Osvaldo Berlingieri, and Horacio Salgan, among others. In 1990, Leonardo decided to fuse the influences of his tango heritage with the music of his newfound, urban American culture and assembled the Cuartetango String Quartet in New York City in order to achieve the highest level Nuevo Tango musical performance on Western classical instruments. His new production of “Romance de Tango” with dancers, musicians, and a singer premieres in 2009.
The members of Cuartetango precisely shape the texture and spirit of the authentic tango sound through the works of Astor Piazzolla, Osvaldo Pugliese, Miguel De Caro, Osvaldo Montes, Néstor Marconi, and many other composers. Reconnecting with the past, they break new ground with a daring repertoire: from Tango Barocco to post-Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tangos. The quartet dazzles with the mastery of this exquisite concert genre.
Cuartetango recently returned from a triumphant, sold-out tour of Argentina and the United States. They have performed at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, Newark Symphony Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, New York’s famed jazz club Birdland with Jim Hall, at the annual Buenos Aires Tango Festival, and in Argentina’s grand opera house, Teatro Colón, at the invitation of the Buenos Aires Secretariat of Culture.
EMI Classics released Cuartetango String Quartet's first CD in 2006: "L'atelier," produced by Leonardo Suarez Paz in Buenos Aires.
Also available for touring in April 2010 is the legendary violinist Fernando Suarez Paz.
"Leonardo possesses a unique spirit and is a virtuoso extraordinaire on the violin. The spirit of the age inhabits him. In fact, he shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there." - Wynton Marsalis
“It is Leonardo Suarez Paz’s enchanted, inspired and creative soul that invades the warm balconies of this tango concert (in which) he makes his violin recite with expressive virtuosity. This talented exhibition enjoys angels and devils so that nothing goes unnoticed in the pleasure of a growing audience that already knows about Leonardo and the warm admiration that he is given in the United States.” - Horacio Ferrer, Poet and President of the National Academy of Tango, Argentina.
Also touring: CUARTETANGO STRING QUARTET
Video link: Cuartetango Music + Dance on PBS station WHYY, Philadelphia, PA - aired Feb. 25, 2009
Video link: Cuartetango Dancers featured on NBC's "Superstars of Dance"
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