fiscal sponsor New York Foundation for the Arts
"TANGO - AN ENTIRE CULTURE" "EL TANGO - UNA CULTURA "
- Horacio Ferrer
"TANGO - AN ENTIRE CULTURE" "EL TANGO - UNA CULTURA "
- Horacio Ferrer
PROGRAM
OCTOBER 17, 2021 5:30 PM
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango
FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, Roosevelt Island NYC 10044
El Nuevo Tango is a genre-redefining, multidisciplinary experience featuring award-winning artists Leonardo & Olga Suarez Paz, an 11 piece tango-jazz fusion orchestra with soloist Patience Higgins and Nuevo Tango Ballet. A cross-cultural production, the show connects New York & Buenos Aires and celebrates the centennial of Leonardo’s mentor, Astor Piazzolla, an Argentine born and New York raised composer who revolutionized tango. Following in the footsteps of his mentors Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, Leonardo takes Nuevo Tango to its next iteration, demonstrating it as an evolving, daring, artistically complex and emotionally
moving genre . "Powerful and sensual" (All About Jazz)
OCTOBER 17, 2021 5:30 PM
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango
FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, Roosevelt Island NYC 10044
El Nuevo Tango is a genre-redefining, multidisciplinary experience featuring award-winning artists Leonardo & Olga Suarez Paz, an 11 piece tango-jazz fusion orchestra with soloist Patience Higgins and Nuevo Tango Ballet. A cross-cultural production, the show connects New York & Buenos Aires and celebrates the centennial of Leonardo’s mentor, Astor Piazzolla, an Argentine born and New York raised composer who revolutionized tango. Following in the footsteps of his mentors Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, Leonardo takes Nuevo Tango to its next iteration, demonstrating it as an evolving, daring, artistically complex and emotionally
moving genre . "Powerful and sensual" (All About Jazz)
1. Soledad (A. Piazzolla-arr: L. Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
2. Melancólico Buenos Aires (A. Piazzolla - orch: A. Drago) (art - Dedé Wolff)
3. Escualo (A. Piazzolla-arr: C. Zarate) (artwork - Dedé Wolff)
4. Chiquilin De Bachin (A. Piazzolla/H. Ferrer-arr: L. Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
5. Milonga De Los Monsters (L. Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
6. Romance Uno (L. Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
7. Violentango (A. Piazzolla-arr: L. Suarez Paz) (art - Dedé Wolff)
8. Maria (L. Bernstein-arr: C. Zarate) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
9. El Dia Que Me Quieras (C. Gardel/ A. Lepera - arr: C Zarate) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
10. Milonga Loca (A. Piazzolla) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
11. Yo Soy El Negro (A. Piazzolla/ C. Gorostiza. arr: L. Suarez Paz) (art - Pedro Figari)
12. Libertango (A. Piazzolla-arr: L Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
2. Melancólico Buenos Aires (A. Piazzolla - orch: A. Drago) (art - Dedé Wolff)
3. Escualo (A. Piazzolla-arr: C. Zarate) (artwork - Dedé Wolff)
4. Chiquilin De Bachin (A. Piazzolla/H. Ferrer-arr: L. Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
5. Milonga De Los Monsters (L. Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
6. Romance Uno (L. Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
7. Violentango (A. Piazzolla-arr: L. Suarez Paz) (art - Dedé Wolff)
8. Maria (L. Bernstein-arr: C. Zarate) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
9. El Dia Que Me Quieras (C. Gardel/ A. Lepera - arr: C Zarate) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
10. Milonga Loca (A. Piazzolla) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
11. Yo Soy El Negro (A. Piazzolla/ C. Gorostiza. arr: L. Suarez Paz) (art - Pedro Figari)
12. Libertango (A. Piazzolla-arr: L Suarez Paz) (art - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer)
THE ARTISTS
We are an artist run company which celebrates multiple cultural heritages and the contributions of immigrants as the primary ingredients that formed and continue to shape this art form in conjunction with the local cultures which added to the creation of a rich cultural milieu.
Leonardo Suarez Paz - Artistic Director
We are an artist run company which celebrates multiple cultural heritages and the contributions of immigrants as the primary ingredients that formed and continue to shape this art form in conjunction with the local cultures which added to the creation of a rich cultural milieu.
Leonardo Suarez Paz - Artistic Director
Leonardo Suarez Paz & Astor Piazzolla
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Astor Piazzolla & Fernando Suarez Paz
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Leonardo Suarez Paz & Astor Piazzolla
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“Virtuoso extraordinaire,” Leonardo Suarez Paz, creates across cultures and genres, continuing a family legacy of over 100 years in the genre, beginning with Gabino Ezeiza to Fernando Suarez Paz who was instrumental in creating the Nuevo Tango alongside Piazzolla. A member of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colon, Leonardo's work as a soloist includes the most distinguished tango orchestras such as those of Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Berlingieri and the shows Tangox2 and Perfumes de Tango where he was also featured as a dancer. He was the soloist in both Broadway tango shows Forever Tango and Tango Argentino, with Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Kenny Drew Jr., Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and many others. Leonardo “shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there.” (Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director Jazz at Lincoln Center)
“Virtuoso extraordinaire,” Leonardo Suarez Paz, creates across cultures and genres, continuing a family legacy of over 100 years in the genre, beginning with Gabino Ezeiza to Fernando Suarez Paz who was instrumental in creating the Nuevo Tango alongside Piazzolla. A member of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colon, Leonardo's work as a soloist includes the most distinguished tango orchestras such as those of Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Berlingieri and the shows Tangox2 and Perfumes de Tango where he was also featured as a dancer. He was the soloist in both Broadway tango shows Forever Tango and Tango Argentino, with Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Kenny Drew Jr., Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and many others. Leonardo “shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there.” (Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director Jazz at Lincoln Center)
Patience Higgins - soloist, tenor saxophone
members of the multiple Latin Grammy nominated Cuartetango string quartet
Sami Merdinian (violin I)
Francisco Salazar (violin II)
Chern Hwei Fung (viola)
Danny Miller (cello)
Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneon)
Ahmed Alom (piano)
Pablo Cafici (keyboard)
Konrad Adderley (contrabass)
Matt Vander Ende (drums)
Nuevo Tango Ballet
Olga Suarez Paz - direction
Francesca Antonacci
Mathilde Guerrero
Brianna Rivera
Carolina Cabrera Volpe
Choreography
Ace-Award winning artist Laura Roatta, Olga Suarez Paz & Leonardo Suarez Paz.
Special Visual Arts Feature
Lulú Michelli de Ferrer and Dedé Wolff
Technical Direction & Stage Design
Nate Terracio
Costume Design
Olga Suarez Paz, Laura Roatta, Melanie Gomez
Gilda Fotoura - wardrobe mistress
Special Thank You
Fernando Suarez Paz - for teaching us to stay true to ourselves and our art
Beatriz Suarez Paz - for helping every step of the way and in every crucial moment
Horacio Ferrer & Lulu Michelli - for always being a part of what we do no matter how far away you may be
Daniel Piazzolla - for the long talks & insights and for sharing the paintings of your mother, Dedé Wolff
Melanie Gomez- for costume design and manufacturing and most importantly, friendship
Deborah Damast & Corey Katano - for auditions & all the other support
THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango
is made possible in part with public funds from Restart NY, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, support from the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, City Artists Corps Grant, Music Performance Trust Fund, Local 802
Dance/NYC Coronavirus Relief Fund
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
Howard Axel, Laila Blumenthal-Rothchild, Darcy Groves
Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation
Donations from individual donors through our fiscal sponsor, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
members of the multiple Latin Grammy nominated Cuartetango string quartet
Sami Merdinian (violin I)
Francisco Salazar (violin II)
Chern Hwei Fung (viola)
Danny Miller (cello)
Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneon)
Ahmed Alom (piano)
Pablo Cafici (keyboard)
Konrad Adderley (contrabass)
Matt Vander Ende (drums)
Nuevo Tango Ballet
Olga Suarez Paz - direction
Francesca Antonacci
Mathilde Guerrero
Brianna Rivera
Carolina Cabrera Volpe
Choreography
Ace-Award winning artist Laura Roatta, Olga Suarez Paz & Leonardo Suarez Paz.
Special Visual Arts Feature
Lulú Michelli de Ferrer and Dedé Wolff
Technical Direction & Stage Design
Nate Terracio
Costume Design
Olga Suarez Paz, Laura Roatta, Melanie Gomez
Gilda Fotoura - wardrobe mistress
Special Thank You
Fernando Suarez Paz - for teaching us to stay true to ourselves and our art
Beatriz Suarez Paz - for helping every step of the way and in every crucial moment
Horacio Ferrer & Lulu Michelli - for always being a part of what we do no matter how far away you may be
Daniel Piazzolla - for the long talks & insights and for sharing the paintings of your mother, Dedé Wolff
Melanie Gomez- for costume design and manufacturing and most importantly, friendship
Deborah Damast & Corey Katano - for auditions & all the other support
THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango
is made possible in part with public funds from Restart NY, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, support from the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, City Artists Corps Grant, Music Performance Trust Fund, Local 802
Dance/NYC Coronavirus Relief Fund
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
Howard Axel, Laila Blumenthal-Rothchild, Darcy Groves
Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation
Donations from individual donors through our fiscal sponsor, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100 and OUR MISSION
Our mission is to further the genre of Nuevo Tango by elevating its artistic standards through live performances, recordings, publications and education, by demonstrating its evolution as an entire culture through every form of expression - music, dance, interdisciplinary work, visual art, literature and cinema. We celebrate Latin, African and European cultural heritages, the contributions of immigrants and women to the genre, while relating its history to Buenos Aires and New York City and affording an opportunity for artists across generations, cultures, genres and disciplines to create new work
and express through a renewed artistic idiom of cultural unity and inclusion.
Leonardo Suarez Paz’s Piazzolla 100 operates as a 501 c 3
Please consider making a tax deductible contribution towards our future programs though our fiscal sponsor
New York Foundation for the Arts
Our mission is to further the genre of Nuevo Tango by elevating its artistic standards through live performances, recordings, publications and education, by demonstrating its evolution as an entire culture through every form of expression - music, dance, interdisciplinary work, visual art, literature and cinema. We celebrate Latin, African and European cultural heritages, the contributions of immigrants and women to the genre, while relating its history to Buenos Aires and New York City and affording an opportunity for artists across generations, cultures, genres and disciplines to create new work
and express through a renewed artistic idiom of cultural unity and inclusion.
Leonardo Suarez Paz’s Piazzolla 100 operates as a 501 c 3
Please consider making a tax deductible contribution towards our future programs though our fiscal sponsor
New York Foundation for the Arts
Leonardo Suarez Paz is surely now the torchbearer of Argentine Tango and the legacy of its greatest composer, Astor Piazzolla. Leonardo Suarez Paz is Tango Royalty... powerful and sensual. |
The harmonically sophisticated arrangements by Leonardo Suárez Paz are superb, as is his sardonic Milonga de los monsters – an unlikely yet happy marriage of Prokofiev and tango nuevo.” His knowledge of the tango violin playing conveys a century of individual styles. |
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