TANGO SIEMPRE
Tango Siempre are the UK's leading tango company. Since 1998 they have worked extensively throughout the UK and Europe touring numerous projects ranging from highly successful traditional tango dance shows through to collaborations with internationally acclaimed jazz musicians (Gilad Atzmon, Steve Arguelles, Ian Ballamy, Paolo Russo, Huw Warren).
“Tango Siempre - a brilliant fusion of classical, tango, jazz and roots” - **** The Guardian.
“That rare thing, Brit tango with attitude” - **** Songlines.
The musicians of Tango Siempre are:
Guillermo Rozenthuler - voice
Julian Rowlands - bandoneon
Ros Stephen - violin
Jonathan Taylor - piano
Richard Pryce - double bass
Tango Siempre have recorded 4 albums: 'Nocturno' (2002, ARCM1807), 'Tangled' (2004, ARCM1960), 'Tangents' (2007, GMC024) featuring Steve Arguelles and Gilad Atzmon, and their most recent album 'Only Human', was released in November 2008 by Galileo-MC. They have received widespread critical acclaim for their work and have received funding awards from the Performing Rights Society Foundation and the Arts Council of England.
Forthcoming performances by Tango Siempre include the Oxford Playhouse, Sage Gateshead, the Queen Elizabeth Hall (at the Royal Festival Hall), Royal Northern College of Music, Festival Musitimatico (Tenerife) and the Jersey Opera House. In December 2010 Tango Siempre’s bandoneonist Julian Rowlands will be appearing at the Wigmore Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Please see below for details of our new project “Malandras Del Tango’.
New Production Touring 2010 / 2011: Malandras Del Tango
Featuring Tango Siempre with special guest Victor Villena (bandoneon).
Tango Siempre present their new septet project “Malandras del Tango” with a programme of intense and passionate music fusing the sound of a traditional tango orquesta típica with Astor Piazzolla’s radical reworking of the tango tradition. Bandoneons and strings evoke the lush, expansive romance of the Buenos Aires tango orquestas of the 1930s and 40s; the stirring, intense voice of Guillermo Rozenthuler recalls Carlos Gardel’s songs of longing and despair; traditional tango collides with virtuosic jazz improvisation and thrilling rhythmic propulsion.
Malandras del Tango are:
Guillermo Rozenthuler - voice
Victor Villena and Julian Rowlands - bandoneons
Ros Stephen and Emil Chackalov - violins
Jonathan Taylor - piano
Richard Pryce - double bass
For further information please see Tango Siempre’s website: www.tangomusic.co.uk
About Guillermo Rozenthuler
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Guillermo is a versatile vocalist, guitarist and composer. Guillermo moved to the UK in 2000 after more than 10 years performing and teaching in Buenos Aires, where he developed his reputation as a jazz and Latin vocalist. Now based in London he is part of several projects regularly touring Europe. Vocalist of outstanding sax player Gilad Atzmonís Orient House Ensemble (winner of the BBC Jazz award), Guillermo appeared on their album, Musik, hailed “Best Jazz album of the Year”, (J Lewis, Time Out). He has now become one of the leading voices of tango in the UK, working regularly with UK-based tango bands. Off stage Guillermo is committed to his work as a vocal coach and workshop leader. In 2005 he was invited as guest voice tutor to join the faculty of the Global Music Foundation.
About Victor Villena
Born in Argentina in 1979, Victor Villena started his bandoneon studies at the age of 9 with Juan Jose MOSALINI subsequently studying with Marcos MADRIGAL in Buenos Aires. In 1996 he won the ‘Best Soloist’ award in the National Competition of Chascomus (Argentina) and again the following year in the National Competition of Cosquin (Argentina). Following this, he performed with several different orchestras in Buenos Aires, notably the National Tango Orchestra of Argentina (1996), the Orchestra of Juan D’Arienzo (Japan tour 1998), ensembles Color Tango and UB Tango.
Victor emigrated to France in 1999 in order to continue his studies with the bandoneonist Juan Jose Mosalini. In that same year he joined Mosalini’s Grand Orchestre de Tango which took him on several tours throughout Europe, the United States and Canada. In October 2000, he appeared as a soloist in the Astor Piazzolla piece ìBandoî on an album with this orchestra.
In June 2000 Victor performed a series of concerts with the Symphonic Orchestra of the Loire, under the direction of Hubert Sudain. At the same time he collaborated with Gustavo Beytelmann, on the album ‘An Argentinian at the Louvre’ with the Ensemble Camerata de Bourgogne and the Boreal String Quartet.
In 2001 and 2002 he played in the Julia Migenes show ‘Latin Passions’, which took him to the Olympia in Paris, and with her other production ‘La Argentina’ to the Theatre de Chatelet. In 2003 Victor was invited by the Orchestra of Besanaon under the direction of Peter CSABA to play the ‘Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra’ by Astor Piazzolla.
His varied musical interests have also brought him to the world of jazz, by a series of concerts with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra conducted by Carlos Franzetti. Also known on the electronic music scene as the bandoneonist of ìGotan Projectî, he toured the United States, Canada and Brazil.
In 2004 Victor co-founded with guitarist Alejandro Schwarz the ‘El Despues’ quintet and he also joined the Rotterdam Conservatoire as the main bandoneon professor.
