Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100

"TANGO - AN ENTIRE CULTURE" "EL TANGO - UNA CULTURA "
- Horacio Ferrer

Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100 is a multidisciplinary performing arts organization and Festival that showcases a groundbreaking new style, which draws on the common roots of Tango, Jazz and Classical Music, as shaped by the culture of African and European migration to the new world. The project is named after Leonardo Suarez Paz's mentor and family friend, Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine-born and New York raised composer who revolutionized the world of 21 century music and honors his legacy by demonstrating the genre as a complex, evolving art form, while challenging artistic and sociocultural constructs.

Our mission is to further Nuevo Tango, its evolution and relationship with Jazz, Classical, Contemporary and populargenres across all disciplines and as an art form which builds and inspires unity and freedom of expression, through live performances, exhibits, recording, film and education and by fostering the creation of new work and cross-cultural collaborations.
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 and audiences across
generations and cultures to share in a renewed artistic idiom of inclusion and unity.

Thank you for making an investment into the artistic voices of today
who will enrich the collective cultural heritage of New York City and beyond.

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Leonardo Suarez Paz’s Piazzolla 100 operates as a 501 c 3as a project fiscally sponsored by
the New York Foundation for the Arts. Your contribution is tax deductible

Leonardo Suarez Paz & Astor Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla & Fernando Suarez Paz

Leonardo Suarez Paz & Astor Piazzolla

Artistic Director and “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. Following in the footsteps of his mentors Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, 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)

Leonardo Suarez Paz is surely now the torchbearer of Argentine Tango and the legacy of its greatest composer, Astor Piazzolla.
- All About Jazz

Leonardo Suarez Paz is Tango Royalty... powerful and sensual.
- All About Jazz

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.”
- GRAMOPHONE, UK Andrew Farach-Colton

His knowledge of the tango violin playing conveys a century of individual styles.
- The STRAD Magazine

PIAZZOLLA 100 FESTIVAL

Piazzolla 100 is unprecedented in format and takes place in New York City, a place of great importance for Tango from Carlos Gardel in the 1930’s to Astor Piazzolla, who was born in Argentina and raised in New York's Little Italy. Every year we offer a wide range of programs including a chamber music with dance, interdisciplinary shows, art exhibits, film screenings, a literary night and a series of master classes and lectures, bringing together top artists from all disciplines who form a part of the genre's renewal and highlighting the importance of women in post Piazzolla Nuevo Tango.

Piazzolla 100 includes a touring format, which combines all disciplines into one production "El Nuevo Tango" and combines music, dance, poetry, visual art and cinema into a multidisciplinary show that is redefining the genre.

Over 50 artists and scholars have contributed to the creation of the Piazzolla 100 programs over the past decade and despite the pandemic of 2020, we celebrated Piazzolla's Centennial during the 2021-22 season in New York City and in Buenos Aires, closing that cycle in March of 2022 with "El Nuevo Tango" at the famed hall "Sala Ballena Azul" of CCK.

"The Year of two thousand and twenty one and Piazzolla's Centennial is not the end, it is the beginning. It is my dream that 2021 can mark a new era for our genre, a new century of creation and evolution, so that artistic voices everywhere can feel the living art that is Nuevo Tango and its inherent capacity to connect us as human beings." - Leonardo Suarez Paz, Artistic Director