For anyone visiting Albuquerque or Santa Fe this holiday season, we have two exciting live tango music events: a concert featuring Extasis from Denver on Dec. 29, and a live music milonga on Jan. 2, featuring Geraldo Perez, bandoneonist from Montevideo, accompanied by piano and bass. Here are the details... Hope you can join us!
Friday, December 29: The Eight Seasons of Venice and Buenos Aires -- 18th century Venice meets 20th century Buenos Aires as Albuquerque Chamber Soloists presents Antonio Vivaldi's beloved "Four Seasons" and Astor Piazzolla's "Four Seasons" (the original tango band version including bandoneon). Piazzolla's Four Seasons will be performed by special guest artists, the Extasis Tango Band of Denver. Time: 6:00pm at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE in the Nob Hill business district. Tickets are $15 & can be purchased (cash or check only) at Washburn Piano, 5000 Cutler NE at San Mateo and I-40 in the Pavilions Shopping Center, or at the door. A post-concert reception for audience and performers will be held courtesy of Whole Foods Market. More information at: http://www.abqcs.org/winter/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 2: Special Live Music Milonga at Kelly's Brewery, 3222 Central Ave SE, in the Nob Hill business district, 8:00-11:00pm, $10 suggested. Bandoneonist, Gerardo Pérez of Montevideo, with Lenny Tischler on bass and Ronald Strauss on piano. DJ, Paul Akmajian (between live sets). Dr. Gerardo Pérez of Montevideo, Uruguay is becoming widely acclaimed in may parts of the world for his sensitive and skillful playing of the bandoneon. A gift given to him by his father, he has played the bandoneon since the age of eleven. is He is noted celebrity in his community for his work in hospitals and nursing homes, as a physician and musician, providing wonderful concerts to his patients. His credits include: - Jan 19, '06 Grand Opening and appointment as Maestro Bandoneonista of the American Tango Institute in Chicago, Illinois - Feb 26, '06 playing the Bandoneon Concerto with Symphony Orchestra by Astor Piazzolla with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Marcello Buziki conduting, Marian Anderson String Quartet, Principals in Residence, College Station, Texas - 2001 to 2003 member of Mala Junta Cuartet/Quintet in Montevideo performing at the 14th Annual Joventango International Tango Festival. ------------------------------------------------ Bass: Lenny Tischler was born and raised in New Jersey. As a child he took private classical piano lessons and at the age of 12 he received honors in piano performance from the Griffith Foundation in Newark. As a teenager playing piano, Tischler and neighborhood friends started a quartet and played occasional gigs local events. During that time he frequented jazz clubs in New York City especially one owned by his mother¹s cousin, Junior¹s Bar on 52nd Street. By 1969 Tischler had acquired a graduate degree in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City and began a career in teaching and social services in the Midwest & Colorado. While in Colorado, Tischler founded and was artistic director of the Wet Mountain Valley Jazz Festival, later to become known as Jazz in the Sangres. In 2004 Tischler was honored at the20th anniversary of the festival. In 1985, Tischler and his family moved to New Mexico where he was working as a therapist and teaching part time at University of New Mexico. Between 1985 and today Tischler has been a bass player in many and various jazz groups including his own jazz trio and quartets performing in Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque. He has been member of the bass section of the Santa Fe Community Orchestra since 1997. ------------------------------------------------ Piano: Ronald Strauss Pianist RON STRAUSS served as composer, arranger, accompanist and musical director for theatre, dance, and cabaret productions in San Francisco and New York before moving to Santa Fe in 1986. He has played tangos in Paris, Basel, and St. Petersburg. A grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eugene O'Neill Foundation, he has written for the concert hall as well as for theatre and dance. In 2001, his opera "Queen of the Night" premiered at the Atelier de la Main d'Or in Paris and, more recently, Serenata of Santa Fe has performed some of his chamber works. He is currently accompanist in the Performing Arts Department and the Contemporary Music Program at the College of Santa Fe. For more information, e-mail us at [email protected]
