Leonardo Suarez Paz continues a family legacy of  100 years in the genre 
    
​​"TANGO - EN ENTIRE CULTURE"​​  "EL TANGO - UNA CULTURA "  
- Horacio Ferrer

​Leonardo Suarez Paz’s Piazzolla 100  is an interdisciplinary performing arts project  that showcases a groundbreaking Nuevo Tango 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.  Celebrating the centennial of  Astor Piazzolla's birth, who mentored  Leonardo Suarez Paz,  the project honors the legacy of the revolutionary composer who was born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina and grew up in New York. We honor Piazzolla's trailblazing spirit by recreating the genre as a complex, evolving art form while challenging artistic and sociocultural constructs.  

Our Artistic and Sociocultural Mission is to elevate the genre, to represent it  as an entire culture and in all of its forms of expression, to underlining the continuing themes of liberty expressed by our artists, to demonstrate the invaluable contribution of  immigrants and women to society and to the art form which was born and continues to thrive at the  cross roads of cultures and in between definitions. 
The project affords an opportunity for different generations of artists across genres and disciplines to come together and express through a renewed artistic idiom of cultural unity and inclusion. 
​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. As a young soloist, Leonardo formed part of the most distinguished tango orchestras including 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)
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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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 ​NEW YORK CITY    2021
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​Piazzolla 100 is unprecedented in format and will take place as a Festival in the fall of 2021 in New York,  a city of great importance for Tango from Carlos Gardel in the 1930’s to Astor Piazzolla. The Festival will take place in multiple venues and with a variety of programs including a symphonic program, a chamber music program, an interdisciplinary show, art exhibits,  film screenings, a literary night and a series of master classes and lectures. The Festival bings together top artists from all disciplines who form a part of Tango culture's renewal and highlights the importance of women in post Piazzolla Nuevo Tango. 
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"MI LIBERTAD, MUJER DE TIEMPO Y LUZ..."     "MY LIBERTY, WOMAN OF TIME AND LIGHT..."
- Horacio Ferrer (lyrics from LIBERTANGO, comp. Piazzolla/Ferrer)
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MUSIC 
Symphonic & Chamber Tango
CINEMA
Film Screenings
DANCE & INTERDISCIPLINARY
El Nuevo Tango
VISUAL  ART
 Art Exhibits
LITERATURE 
Literary Night
EDUCATION
Lectures  &  Master Classes


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TOURING PROGRAM
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Leonardo Suarez Paz's Piazzolla 100  includes a touring format of the shows that form a part of the Festival for national and international engagements which include a visual arts and educational component, along with publicity and media support.
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EL NUEVO TANGO
CUARTETANGO MUSIC & DANCE
SYMPHONIC TANGO
CUARTETANGO STRING QUARTET
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
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