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Mendocino Music Festival
Mendocino, California
July 22, 2008
8:00 p.m.
QuinTango
Joan Singer, violin Jennifer Rickard, violin
Kerry Van Laanen, cello
Libby Blatt, bass Philip Hosford, piano
Guest Dancers:
Carina Losano & Anton Gazenbeek
Los Macana
Program
Libertango....................................................................Astor
Piazzolla
Oblivion.........................................................................Astor
Piazzolla
Don
Agustín Bardi...........................................................Horacio
Salgán
Carina
& Anton
Otoño
Porteño.......................................................Astor
Piazzolla/Espinoza
Canaro
en Paris.......................................................Scarpino
y Caldarella
Los
Macana
El
Día Que Me Quieras.................................................Carlos
Gardel
La
Trampera..................................................Anibal
Troilo/Berlinghieri
Anton
Gazenbeek
Chau
Paris......................................................Astor
Piazzolla/Marcelli
Tanguera.................................................................Mariano
Mores
Carina
& Anton
intermission
Fuga
y Misterio........................................................Astor
Piazzolla
9
de Julio.....................................................................Jose
Padilla
Los
Macana
Por
una Cabeza..........................................................Carlos
Gardel
Nocturna.............................................................................Julian
Plaza
Carina
& Anton
Los
Mareados..................................Juan Carlos Cobián/Berlinghieri
Balada
para un Loco...............................................Astor
Piazzolla
Carina
& Anton
Adios
Nonino................................................................Astor
Piazzolla
Taquito
Militar..............................................................Mariano
Mores
Los
Macanas
La
Cumparsita.....................................................Gerardo
Rodriguez
QuinTango
CDs will be on sale following the concert.
For
further information, visit www.quintango.com.
Meet
QuinTango
Four-time
WAMMIE award-winner QuinTango is the only tango music group to give a
Command Performance at The White House and the only American tango group
to give a Command Performance at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. A finalist
in the 2004 International Tango Competition, QuinTango has been heard
on NPR's Morning Edition, CNN, and network television in both the USA
and Costa Rica.
QuinTango
has appeared as soloist with the Augusta, Charleston, Wichita, Ars Flores,
and Fairfax Symphony Orchestras, and the Orquesta de Sinaloa in Mexico.
They have also performed in Europe and South America.
QuinTango
has appeared at two international music festivals in Costa Rica. QuinTango
members have appeared as soloists at the San Miguel Tango Festival in
Mexico. Festival performances here include nine seasons at Piccolo Spoleto;
the Kennedy Center Open House; Wolf Trap's Theatre-in-the-Woods; Lincoln
Center’s Midsummer Night Swing and the Virginia Highlands and the
Mendocino Festival.
QuinTango’s
educational residencies in Oklahoma, Appalachia, North Carolina, Maryland
and Virginia have incorporated students ranging from ages 8 to 18 in QuinTango
performances. Supported by Washington Performing Arts Society, Chamber
Music America, MidAtlantic Arts Foundation and the Virginia Commission
for the Arts, these activities are an important part of the group’s
schedule
QuinTango’s
music made its commercial film debut in a 2007 Taiwanese film release,
“My DNA Says I Love You.” QuinTango’s music is currently
appearing in the television special “Inside the Living Body,”
which premiered on the National Geographic Channel in 2007. QuinTango's
recordings have provided sound tracks for Inside Straight (USA, 2001)
and Fiction (Australia, 2002). Qantas has featured QuinTango in their
in-flight classical offerings. QuinTango’s latest recording, Triunfal,
was released in May 2008.
QuinTango’s
fusion tango chamber music has delighted audiences from Appalachia to
Palm Beach, prompting the Washington Post to proclaim QuinTango "one
of Washington's musical treasures
Meet
the Artists
Libby
Blatt, bass, is a founding
member of QuinTango. She has performed with USO tours, in an acclaimed
all-girl gypsy orchestra in New York City, a touring all-girl trio, and
numerous chamber ensembles. She has concertized with the Capitol Chamber
Ensemble in France, Italy, Germany and Holland and with QuinTango in Costa
Rica, Mexico, France, Argentina, and throughout the USA. She can be heard
on all of QuinTango’s albums. She resides in Maryland.
Anton
Gazenbeek, dancer, is a performer, choreographer and researcher
specializing in traditional tango. Born in Holland but raised in Buenos
Aires,
Anton's passion for traditional tango has led him to create the most comprehensive
tango video collection in the world. He has written articles for magazines,
filmed four teaching DVDs and created both "The Anthropology of Tango
Dance" show and "The Argentine Tango Cultural Tour." Anton
has taught tango dance in Argentina, Europe, the USA and Asia. He has
lectured at international conferences and festivals. Juan Carlos Copes,
the legendary tango dancer, recently engaged Anton to compile a book about
Copes' career. He is the founder and director of The School of Traditional
Argentine Tango in New York City, where he currently resides
Los
Macana, dancers,are one of the hottest acts on the international
tango scene.Though only in their early twenties, the Argentine brothers
Enrique and Guillermo di Fazio are famous worldwide for their breathtaking
and witty tango interpretations. Their stage name comes from the Lunfardo,
the language of the harbour quarters of Buenos Aires and means “a
witty guy”, but also “one who’s just got it”.
Playful, comical and technically brilliant, the traditional style of “Los
Macanas” recalls the old days when men practiced their tango steps
with men, a practical solution to the lack of women partners in early
Buenos Aires.
Phil
Hosford, piano, is a pianist of international reputation,
touring the U.S., Europe, South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. The
Washington Post acclaims his playing as “ the perfecting meeting
of artistry and pyrotechnics...gripping and powerful.” Performance
highlights include those at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Center for
the Arts, New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall,
Teatro del Opera in Buenos Aires and Kolarec Narodni Hall in Belgrade.
He is the winner of top prizes in fifteen national and international competitions,
including the Terrence Judd International Auditions in London, the United
States Artistic Ambassador Auditions and the Beethoven Foundation’s
Triennial Awards and is a recipient of the Solo Performers Grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1995, he and his wife, pianist
Hayuru Taima, founded the Academy of Music in Gaithersburg, MD. He lives
in Maryland with his wife and daughter Hedy.
Carina
Losano, dancer, grew
up in Buenos Aires, where she received numerous awards, including the
"Golden Obelisk"and "Dedication to Tango", awarded by
Juan Carlos Cope and First Prize in the "Championship Hugo del Carril."
In 1999 she came to the US as a cultural ambassador. Her choreography
credits include coaching Madonna on tango technique for her role in “Evita”
and co-choreographing the PEPSI commercial starring Shakira. She recently
co-choreographed an international commercial for HSBC Bank and the National
Geographic Special on the Human Body. She has been an invited guest artist
on cruises to numerous countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Croatia,
Greece, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Turkey, UK and Uruguay. Carina currently
directs the tango dance program at the Embassy of Argentina in Washington,
D.C. She resides in Maryland, where she frequently collaborates with QuinTango
both as performer and as principal teacher in the Mad Hot Tango Workshop
project, an educational series under the sponsorship of Washington Performing
Arts Society.
Jennifer
Rickard, violin, is a member of the National Philharmonic,
National Gallery Orchestra, and performs often with the Richmond Symphony,
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and Washington National Opera. She is on
the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. She has been
a member of the Phoenix and New Orleans Symphonies and holds degrees from
Barnard College and the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. She
lives in Virginia with her husband, saxophonist Andy Axelrad, and their
daughter Victoria.
Joan
Singer, violin, is the founder and director of QuinTango.
She fell in love with Latin music while teaching school at Escuela J.F.
Kennedy in Queretaro, Mexico. She holds degrees from Earlham College,
where she was an English major, and DePauw University, where she earned
a master’s degree in violin performance. She has performed in concert
in England, France, Mexico, Italy, Holland, Germany, Costa Rica, Guatemala,
India, Sikkim, and Argentina, as well as throughout the United States.
Since founding QuinTango, she has become a record producer, tour manager,
publicist, grant administrator, arts panelist, Master Teaching Artist,
and international lecturer on tango. She lives in Virginia with her husband
Irwin Singer, a physicist by day and tango dancer by night.
Kerry
Van Laanen, cello, performs regularly with the Baltimore
Opera, Washington National Opera, National Gallery Orchestra, Post-Classical
Ensemble, Wolf Trap Orchestra, Concert Artists of Baltimore, and the National
Philharmonic Orchestra. A highly respected chamber musician, she has also
performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, as well as in concert
in Italy and at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. She maintains an active
cello studio in Maryland, where she lives with her husband, bassist Edgardo
Malaga, and daughters Rebecca and Elena.
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