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 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 as a contemporary art form across all disciplines through live performances, exhibits, recording, film and education by demonstrating its evolution and relationship to Jazz, Contemporary Classical and popular genres and 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 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 as a project fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts
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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)

NEW YORK CITY

Piazzolla 100 is unprecedented in format and is taking place New York City, a city of great importance for Tango from Carlos Gardel in the 1930’s to Astor Piazzolla. Every year we will be offering a variety 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 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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