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MUSICIANS AND DJs
DANCING TO LIVE MUSIC
BOSTON TANGO ORCHESTRA
Friday Night
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Leo Karmiy – Band Leader, Upright Bass
Leo studied Piano, Violin and Upright Bass in Ukraine. Today Leo plays Upright Bass in tango and jazz styles.
The Boston Tango Orchestra (BTO) focuses on the Golden Age Argentine tango music played at milongas (Argentine tango social dancing).
Gray Gafarov – Violin, Guitar, Bass
Gray studied Violin in the Cologne conservatory Germany and bass at the NEC. He is a young aspiring local musician and plays in a number of musical styles including really cool Gipsy Jazz. You can hear him play with his band Sundays 12-3 at the Bebop Restaurant in Boston.
Santon – Piano, Violin
Blind from birth and autistic, Santon graduated from the Berklee College of Music with Summa Cum Laude. He plays in a number of styles including classical, jazz and tango. Santon is also a tango dancer and brings an invaluable understanding of the nuances in the Argentine tango music to the Boston Tango Orchestra. Santon’s online links: www.SantonMusic.com, www.facebook.com/SantonsMusic/
Alex Roitman -- Bandoneon
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TRIO TANGO PORTEÑO
Saturday Night
Legendary Maestro Tito Castro (Bandoneon)
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Maurizio Najt (Piano)
Maurizio Najt graduated at Conservatorio Nacional de Musica de Buenos Aires.
Played an important role as a tango pianist in the New York tango revival during the 90's.
He has played in countless milongas and tango shows throughout the US playing along master bandoneonists such as Raul Jaurena, Tito Castro, Héctor del Curto and Victor Lavallén.
Composed and recorded the original music for the acclaimed off-Broadway musical theater show "Don Quixxxote", which was nominated for an ACE award, and the children's tango musical "A Tango for Tita", which recently won an ACE award for best direction.
Collaborated with Academy-Award winning film director Ang Lee, arranging and recording for the film "Lust Caution".
Currently he works as a Ballet Pianist at Astoria Fine Arts Center, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts and Broadway Dance Center in NYC.
Toured Japan, Korea and Hawaii with Japanese tango diva Anna Saeki, recently performing at Blue Note in NYC. Performed with the Forever Tango Orchestra (Luis Bravo's Tony winning production) touring the US, Mexico, Japan and China, and most recently a ten week run on Broadway during the summer of '13 followed by a Boston and Maryland tour.
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Tito Castro (Bandoneon)
Hector "Tito" Castro - Bandoneon player, director, composer and arranger was born in the city of "9 de julio" in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the age of three his family moved to the capital.
From a young age Tito was a spectator of the great orchestras, accompanying his parents to the popular dances, and the interest of learning to play the Bandoneon was born.
At age 14 he began his music lessons with Master Eladio Blanco, who perfomed with the acclaimed Bandoneon D'Arienzo Orchestra. At 18 years of age Tito started playing with the Orchestra of Osmar Maderna for three years. He continued playing with many orchestras such as; Lucio Demare, Fulvio Salamanca, Hector Varela and Juan Sanchez Gorio.
His first international tour started in Lima, Peru with the quartet of Josesito Pace in 1964. From there he began to accompany great legends of the Tango; Hugo del Carril and Libertad Lamarque, Alberto Marino, Charlo, Raul Beron, Nelly Vasquez, Alberto Podesta, Juan Carlos Godoy, Roberto Goyeneche.
Tito relocated to New York City in 1998 where he resides to this day. In all this time he has been dedicated to spreading the passion of Tango with performances at theaters, universities, etc. Tito has worked on the movie "Flawless" with Robert de Niro.
On two occasions he has had the privilege to accompany the Argentine folklorist Mercedes Sosa at Carnegie Hall. Tito has also accompanied Tenor Placido Domingo at the Washington Opera House and the Metropilitan Opera of NY.
In 2005 he accompanied the Great Argentine dancer Julio Bocca & company at the Ballet Theater of NY.
In 2006 Tito recorded his album Memories Of My Bandoneon.
He has also recorded 4 CDs of the "Tangos Pa'Milongueros" series. In late 2009 he recorded his CD "Memories" that includes 6 origianl tangos written by Tito. In the same year he accompanied the German singer Ute Lemper in "Last Tango in Berlin" at the Cafe Carlyle NY, and since then has been doing worldwide tours of the show at venues such as; the Musik Festspiele and Opera in Dresden, Germany; Vancouver Theatre at the Music Fest, Vancouver, Canada; the Norfolk Norwich Festival in England; the Teatro Verdi in Padova, Italy; the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Italy; the Teatro Strehler in Milan, Italy; the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine; the Rheingau Musik Festival in Wiesbanden-Germany; the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Spain; the Teatro de la Pergola in Firenze, Italy; the Auditorium G. Agnelli Lingotto in Torino, Italy ; the Queensland Performing Arts Center in Melbourne-Australia and the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia; the Teatro Del Rozzi in Sienna, Italy; the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England; the Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand and recently at the Teatro Verdi Gorizia in Italy and at the Theatre Des Chanps Elisees in Paris, France.
Check his website at titocastrotango.com
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Tom Kircheme (Bass)
Tom Kirchmer began his musical life at 7 years old with the guitar. At 12 he was playing in a church group and by 14 he was musical director.
He began to study the double bass with a member of the NY Philharmonic and went on to a conservatory degree.
While in college he began playing Jazz gigs and free lancing in the classical field. After graduation, he took a steady gig with Swing Era veterans at night clubs performing the "American song book". This work led to the Society field and to Continental repertoire and eventually the Argentine Tango.
Of the hundreds of musicians Tom has worked with, many being unknown outside of their circle, there are well known and renowned artists like Ray Charles, Marvin Hamlich, Nancy Wilson, and Cy Coleman.
Tom considers some of the best Music performances to be his original hard bop quintet "Silveresque", Greg Bobulinski's 25 years of recording projects, Lew Anderson's and Bill White's big bands and Ray Cohen's elegant performances with strings.
Tom believes when you are a professional bassist, whose specialty is accompanying others, you try to go unnoticed by making the soloist sound good. The best compliment another musician could give a bassist is: "You seemed to know what I was going to play before I even played it."
DANCING TO THE MUSIC OF THE BEST DJs
WEDNESDAY
8:30pm
Opening Night Milonga
Guest DJ:
at Dance Union
THURSDAY
8:30pm
Guest DJ: Rodrigo "El Charrua{"
Uruguay/Chicago
at Dance Union
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FRIDAY
9pm
Dress to Impress Milonga
Guest DJ: David Chester
USA
at Dante Alighieri Society
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SUNDAY
8:00pm
Closing Night Milonga
"Hasta el Año Proximo Tangueros"
Guest DJ: Mark Sakowski
USA
at the Dante Alighieri Society
SATURDAY
8pm
Show w/Live Music
9:30pm
Black & White Milonga
Guest DJ: Rodrigo "El Charrua"
Uruguay, Chicago
at the Dante Alighieri Society
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