Orchestras 2024
Analía Goldberg Quartet
Analía Goldberg received her first piano lessons at the tender age of four. At the age of 18, she decided to immerse herself in tango music. During her first solo performances with her electric piano in the Plaza Dorriego in San Telmo, other musicians noticed her and invited her to play with them. After founding her first own ensemble, the Cuarteto Almagro, she was engaged for many years as a pianist with the Color Tango Orchestra. Not only there, but throughout her musical career as a pianist, composer and arranger – Color Tango was followed by her ensemble Ojos de Tango – she was particularly fascinated by the music of Osvaldo Pugliese. In 2019, she released her CD “Tan Goldberg”, an album that she herself sees as a synthesis of her work, in which everything she feels in tango music is expressed. On the occasion of its release, the Argentine medium “Tiempo Argentino” wrote: “Analía Goldberg succeeds in the alchemy of condensing the heritage and mixing it with the precise dose of her compositional and interpretative stamp to bring it into the future, the future that is already here because we have to deal with it today. There is no better title for her album than the one she gave it: Tan Goldberg.” As a sought-after singer, Sergio Veloso accompanies numerous renowned ensembles.
We are delighted that Analía Goldberg, her quartet and singer Sergio Veloso will be bringing the atmosphere of Buenos Aires to us and opening the festival in style.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HNIXn3bHwHnIDdbx4LXXi-DLr2LZQW0G/view
Arta Balarta Quinteto
For almost a decade, the French string quartet Arta Balarta has been performing an extensive classical repertoire as well as traditional and new tango. For their latest project, they have teamed up with Argentinian double bassist Seba Noya to offer a program that puts contemporary tango composers in the spotlight. Seba Noya, himself a composer and arranger, has been working with contemporary tango composers for several years, both in Argentina and in Europe. We know him as a member of Los Milonguitas and No Tags.
To give the audience an insight into the captivating new sound world of tango music, Arta Balarta and Seba Noya will perform the music of current composers such as Ramiro Gallo, Diego Schissi and Victor Lavallén. These pieces will be featured on their next album, due to be released in 2024. The unique repertoire also includes some selected classics that will be reinterpreted by the string quintet.
ChimiChango
The members of ChimiChango are part of the French collective Roulotte Tango, which has been exploring and travelling the world of tango in various formations for many years. Their repertoire includes original and traditional pieces, folklore and cover versions of French and Argentinian chansons. Auréliano Marin is a formative figure who knows how to captivate the audience with his charisma as a singer and bassist. With percussionist Pablo Costadone, the ensemble develops a fascinating mixture of innovation and passion, reminiscent of the world of pop or rock. Incidentally, we can experience the talent of violinist Mehdi Altinaoui in all its diversity at the concert with the Arta Balarta Quinteto.
DeLeones Tango Orquesta
Tango to dance with your eyes and ears. Power, vitality and sensitivity characterise the music of the DeLeones Tango Orquesta from Buenos Aires/Lyon. With ten musicians (three bandoneons, piano, double bass, three violins, viola and cello), they take us on a journey into the past, to a black and white Buenos Aires where tango, born on the pavement and in the suburbs, conquered the world. Modelled on the great tango orchestras of the 40s and 50s, the ensemble plays the tangos of the most important composers of the Golden Age. The mastermind is Patricio Bonfiglio, who founded the Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro with Julian Peralta more than twenty years ago and later the group Astillero. It is impossible to escape the musical energy that is generated on stage from the very first notes. The dancing and listening audience will get their money’s worth.
Duo MüllerFunes
Raúl Funes from Mendoza, Argentina, studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Daniel Müller from Tyrol studied guitar at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and then at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. After numerous performances and winning prizes as soloists, their paths crossed in 2016 in the artists’ room of a festival. Their great affinity for the sound of the guitar and the passion to discover music for two guitars were the motivation and reason to play together. Two months later, the duo played their first concert. This was followed by concert tours to Germany, Argentina, Spain and Romania, as well as numerous video productions and appearances on radio and television. “We play music that touches us and gives us as a duo the opportunity to sound like an instrument.” The MüllerFunes duo’s repertoire ranges from music from Argentina, Brazil and Cuba to Spanish music.
Their new CD “Musica Latina” with works by Latin American composers has just been released.
Duo MüllerFunes Live #2 – Tango No. 2 by Astor Piazzolla – YouTube
Duo Tomassi – Woiz
The singer Noelia Tomassi, born in Buenos Aires and now living in Berlin, approaches tango from her own perspective, integrating influences from jazz, Pop and Rock. Performances in prestigious venues such as the Philharmonie Berlin and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and collaborations with renowned musicians such as Roger Helou, Minino Garay, Gabriel Merlino and Lysandre Donoso have established an outstanding reputation.
Pablo Woiz leads his own ensemble “Milonga Roots” as a pianist and arranger, with whom he has already made guest appearances at our festival. Both as a soloist (also at La Locura) and in collaboration with famous orchestral conductors such as Luis Stazo, Alfredo Marcucci and Juan José Mosalini, he is a much sought-after interpreter on many European stages.
Together they present a mixture of tangos and other rhythms of Argentinian music. From the classics of Gardel to pearls of folklore and the Rioplatense song to Piazzolla, they invite us to immerse ourselves in their music in an intimate format.
Elegante Sport
Founded in 2014, the ensemble Elegante Sport represents a new generation of Argentinian music today. Tango as a means of expression allows them to combine modern and traditional sounds, between academic and popular, with other musical styles from the Río de la Plata.
Its members – grandchildren of tango, children of rock – mix their musical experiences and allow these two genres to enter into dialogue with each other.
Their repertoire includes classics such as Canaro, Gardel and Manzi together with artists from the younger music scene such as Piazzolla, Charly García, Spinetta and the group’s own works. Yesterday and today, in a single sound: Buenos Aires and its eclectic essence.
Elegante Sport has performed on various important stages in Buenos Aires and on their tours of the USA and Europe
After their albums “Milonga” and “ES”, they recently released “Para Milonguear”, a repertoire of traditional tangos by the best orchestras of the “Golden Age” such as Gobbi, Pugliese, Aníbal Troilo as well as milongas and candombes with “Afroporteña” percussion.
At La Locura they play as a septet under their musical director Julián Caeiro with the singer Emiliano Castignola, who was with us last year with the Orquesta Típica Sans Souci.
Ensemble 22
In the summer of 2022, guitarist Camilo Cordoba, bandoneonist Lysandre Donoso and pianist Pablo Woiz met in Brussels to make music together and see how the ideas and music flowed. The meeting was recorded on video. The participants were so enthusiastic that they decided to continue the project. Initially without a name, it is now called Ensemble 22 after the date of its creation. All three have already performed in various formations at our previous festivals, Camilo Cordoba with the Quinteto Ensueños, Lysandre Donoso also with this quintet as well as with the Orquesta Silbando and with SONICO, Pablo Woiz with Milonga Roots and as a soloist. Now, with the addition of bassist Felipe Devincenzi, they present the fruits of their collaboration. They transcend the traditional boundaries of tango, integrate other Latin American musical styles and flirt with jazz elements and improvisation.
Pablo _ Tango | Cordoba – Donoso – Woiz trio _ Ensemble 22 – YouTube
La Santa Calavera
For the 2024 festival, we have invited all ensembles that have not yet taken part. We had to make one exception: La Santa Calavera. This Orquesta Típica gave us so much pleasure last year that we invited them again. Perhaps the director of the ensemble, Mauricio Jost, will even find time to look for his family’s roots in Innsbruck. The orchestra has now founded its own milonga in Buenos Aires, where it plays live every Sunday, La Santa Dominga. If you follow the videos produced, you will recognise that new pieces are constantly being rehearsed, some of which are presented here. The orchestra’s energy and enthusiasm will be transmitted to the audience and ensure a perfect conclusion to our festival.
Foto: Gaz Blanco
Pablo Estigarribia
As a pianist, composer and arranger in equal measure, Pablo Estigarribia is one of the great musicians of the Argentinian tango scene. The famous bandoneonist Victor Lavallén, a member of Osvaldo Pugliese’s orchestra at the time, held him in such high esteem that he played numerous concerts and produced albums with him. After training as a classical pianist and a brief excursion into jazz, Pablo Estigarribia found his musical home in tango music in all its diversity. Emilio Balcarce, Maria Graña, Leopoldo Federico, Nestor Marconi, Horacio Cabarcos, in other words the who’s who of contemporary tango music, invited him to arrange for them and play with them. Today he commutes between Buenos Aires and the USA, where he not only gives concerts but also teaches, especially in New York and California. His last album “Horacio Salgán Piano Transcriptions” won the Latin Grammy for Best Tango Album in 2022.
Taller Galvan Orchestra
Taller Galván is a bandoneon lutherie workshop in Argentina, where they repair and manufacture bandoneons. The Taller Galván tour is precisely a trip with the intention of showing the bandoneons manufactured in the workshop so that the world can see them. In their show, the musicians Pedro Galván, Joaquín Benítez Kitegroski and Enzo Vergara on bandoneon, Ariel Romano on violin and Claudio Jurado on guitar and vocals blend the elegance of tango with the richness and diversity of Argentine folklore. Through their music and dance, they will take the audience on a journey through the different regions of Argentina, presenting a variety of styles and rhythms characteristic of each one. The musical arrangements will be specially tailored to highlight the beauty and emotion of each piece, thus offering a unique and moving experience for the audience.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PUPuQVUBET3zkzDjsTEbWVZ2yeTmuyf-/view
Tanghetto
Tanghetto is an electrotango project founded in 2003 by Max Masri with the aim of bringing innovation to the world of tango. The debut album “Emigrante (electrotango)” caused a furore in the music scene. It was inspired by the economic crisis that shook Argentina in 2001 and resulted in the emigration of many young people. From the very beginning, Tanghetto has been committed to inclusion and diversity in the music scene and was the first orchestra to perform at the Tango Queer Festival in Argentina. The band sees itself as an open project with different members taking part in live performances. But musically, too, boundaries have been crossed time and again by including cover versions of Depeche Mode, Eurythmics and others in the programme. The album “El Miedo a la Libertad” was inspired by Erich Fromm’s essay “The Fear of Freedom” and also the resistance of some traditional tango dancers to the success of new trends in tango. Having won two Premios Gardel and several Latin Grammy nominations, Tanghetto has achieved great recognition.
Recently, the new album “ARGENTINXS” was released, on which Tanghetto is accompanied by famous guests such as Adriana Varela, Fito Páez, Lito Vitale, Abel Pintos, Amelita Baltar, Leon Garcia and others. The album was nominated for the Latin Grammy 2023.
Tango Il Faut
This ensemble from Buenos Aires plays traditional tango music and their own compositions – initially as a duo and for a few years now as a trio. With two guitars, double bass and vocals, they invite you to listen and dance. Several tours through the USA and Europe and three albums (“Tarde de domingo”, “Avanti” and most recently “Agitando el avispero”) have earned them a loyal following. Their musicality workshops are in demand.
They will be presenting tango in all its diversity and making it accessible to the public at different times and in different places, in and in front of the Haus der Musik as well as in various places in the city centre.
Tango Il Faut – Insomnio (Ft. Brenno Márques & Eva Icikson) – YouTube
Trio Tasis
For more than 10 years, Carmela Delgado, Emilie Aridon-Kociołek and Mathias Naon have been sharing and renewing their musical connection in numerous projects and large tango ensembles. Carmela and Mathias have already taken part in La Locura with various formations, both with the Orquesta Silbando, Carmela also with Sonico. Together with pianist Emilie Aridon-Kociolek, the desire arose to play in a trio, minimalist, intimate, very close to the keys and strings. Three instruments, bandoneon, piano and violin, and an encounter that is rooted in tango and opens up new horizons. Out of Buenos Aires, inspired by everything that surrounds them here and there: Argentinian music, which is as big as its territory, French chanson, Latin American rhythms, jazz. Under the pen of arranger and composer Mathias Naon, a uniqueness emerges at the interface between tradition and exploration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FqxMy7rFY8&list=RD8FqxMy7rFY8&index=1
Ullmann Cuarteto
The Ullmann Cuarteto was born out of the conviction that the golden age of tango was neither random, arbitrary nor static, but the expression of a mature aesthetic that has been developing – slowly but persistently – since the beginning of the 20th century. With this experience, the quartet entered the scene with a series of tango classics interpreted from a contemporary perspective without denying history.
After its debut in 2019, the quartet, consisting only of female musicians, was slowed down shortly afterwards by the pandemic.
What makes the Ullmann Quartet so special is its ability to sound both contemporary and indebted to the genre’s great forefathers. “I’ve always been interested in renewing the tango a little, and I think this is also a natural fact that inevitably occurs when we are in the 21st century and making new tango or reinterpreting works from the last century,” says Leda Torres, the ensemble’s pianist and arranger.
The album “Ya está en el aire” was recently released, which means “the arrow is already in the air”. Leda Torres comments: “We liked the image of something being launched and not knowing where it will fly or how it will end. Something that’s up in the air, with a destination.”
For La Locura, the Ullmann Cuarteto will be accompanied for the first time by singer Noelia Tomassi.
Foto: Carlos Furman
DJs
DJ Aurora Fornuto
Aurora’s DJ quality is confirmed by her many engagements at all the big and famous marathons and festivals all over Europe. Athens, Lisbon, Tarbes, Catania, Zurich and many other places invite her regularly. She is resident DJ at Bunker Tango in Turin and organiser of many events with live music and workshops. We are happy to have her at our festival for the third time.
DJ Pepa Palazon
Pepa is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires (in Tango and Folklore) and has specialized in the musical training of tango dancers for the last 8 years. As TDJ she has played in the Main Milongas of Buenos Aires such as Villa Malcolm, El Beso, El Tabano, La Firulana and in her own Viva la Pepa Milonga and in big Festivals (Lady’s Tango Festival) and in Europe at Oster Tango Festival Basel and Heidelberg Tango Marathon, and at the main Milongas of London, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Lisbon and many others. Some years ago she was DJ at the Tangotoño Festival Innsbruck. We are happy that she is coming back to Innsbruck.
DJ Sebastian
Sebastian is a resident DJ in Innsbruck. He has been DJing for many years in milongas and at tango weeks in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Gut Frohberg) in Switzerland (Bergün) and at La Milonga on Crete.
