A Night of New Tango
Pablo Ziegler, guest pianist, composer, arranger
Arnaldo Cohen and Luke Gillespie, piano
Latin American Popular Music Ensemble
Carmen Helena Téllez, artistic director
Sunday April 8, 2007
8:00 pm
The Jacobs School of Music Latin American Music Center, under the direction of Carmen Helena Téllez, is proud to announce an extraordinary concert with the Grammy-winning composer and pianist Pablo Ziegler, who will direct and perform with the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble on Easter evening, April 8, at 8 p.m. in Auer Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
The concert will be further enhanced by Ziegler’s collaboration with two of our most distinguished faculty, the brilliant virtuoso Arnaldo Cohen and the imaginative jazz pianist Luke Gillespie, in Ziegler’s duet arrangements of tangos by Astor Piazzolla.
Pablo Ziegler is a world-renowned jazz and Argentine tango pianist and composer, who resides in Buenos Aires and New York City. Pablo Ziegler was the famed Astor Piazzolla’s pianist for ten years, collaborating with him at the peak of Piazzolla’s career. He is now considered the heir of Piazzolla’s nuevo tango style, which he has taken into new directions.
Pablo Ziegler formed his own Quartet for New Tango in 1990, after Piazzolla disbanded his Quintet when diagnosed with advanced heart disease. Ziegler blended classic tango rhythms with jazz improvisations, something that previously had not been part of the tango lexicon. Howard Reich of The Chicago Times said, “There’s no question that Ziegler takes the tango to levels of sophistication and refinement probably undreamed of by Piazzolla”, and Eric Salzman of Stereo Review, writing of Ziegler’s CD Tango Romance, affirmed that the CD “solidifies (Ziegler’s) claim to be the outstanding representative of the nuevo tango in his generation.”
In 1999, Pablo’s performance at Carnegie Hall with his Quintet for New Tango was videotaped for broadcast on PBS which aired it for 6 months. Guests for this performance included the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Gary Burton, Ryota Komatsu, and Argentinian singers Maria Graña and J. A. Trelles. Also in 1999, Mr. Ziegler was invited to participate in “Música de las Américas” for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where he was honored for his contribution to the evolution of tango with a bronze plaque. The Mayor of New Orleans also recognized Mr. Ziegler’s artistry by awarding him the title of International Honorary Citizen of the City of New Orleans.
Since 2002 Pablo Ziegler has been presenting his quartet once a year at Jazz Standard in NYC with friends Paquito D’Rivera, Stefon Harris, David Sánchez, Randy Brecker, Gil Goldstein, James Carter, Edmar Castañeda, Dave Samuels, Harry Allen, and Kenny Garret.
The tango duets that he will perform with Arnaldo Cohen and Luke Gillespie in Bloomington have been heard across the United States, Europe, Israel, and Japan with Christopher O’Riley (who just performed in our IU Auditorium) and Emmanuel Ax, with whom he recorded them.
Pablo Ziegler’s discography includes Tango Romance: Music of Buenos Aires with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (BMG/RCA); Los Tangueros: The Tangos of Astor Piazzolla played by Ziegler and Emmanuel Ax (with two piano arrangements by Ziegler) (SONY); Asfalto: Street Tango (BMG/RCA); Pablo Ziegler Quintet for New Tango recorded with guest artist Joe Lovano (BMG/RCA); and Bajo Cero with Quique Sinesi and Walter Castro (Zoho Music) which won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album in 2005. Pablo Ziegler also appears as a guest artist on two of Gary Burton’s recordings, Piazzolla Reunion and Libertango, both on the Concord Jazz label, as well as an appearance as arranger and accompanist on The Lost Days, a recording with renowned mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, released in 2003 on BMG/RCA.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
The Latin American Music Center, 812-855-2991 or 812-320-1520.
RESOURCES:
http://www.bernsarts.com/ziegler/ziegler.html
http://www.pabloziegler.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Ziegler
Sponsored by the Latin American Music Center and the Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies.
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