Tango de Camara with Daniel Binelli will present a free concert as part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival on Wednesday, April 2, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall.
Bandoneon player extraordinaire, composer and tango legend Daniel Binelli will perform with IC School of Music faculty members Steven Mauk (saxophone), Pablo Cohen (classical guitar), and Nicholas Walker (double bass) in this special tango concert, which affords a rare opportunity to hear tango in all its virtuosity, complexity, counterpoints, camouflages, and collaborations.
Binelli will also present a master class for ensembles performing the music of Astor Piazzolla from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in room 3102 of the James J. Whalen Center for Music. The class is open to the public.
Daniel Binelli is one of the world's greatest virtuosos of the bandoneon. He has played with major traditional tango orchestras as well as being a member of Astor Piazzolla's last septet. (Piazzolla died in 1992.) As a soloist, Binelli is also widely acclaimed as the foremost exponent and torchbearer of the music of tango legend Astor Piazzolla.
He has been featured with orchestras in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This past season he performed his own compositions, as well as Piazzolla's, as a soloist with the Philadelphia San Francisco, Dallas, Utah, Buffalo, and Binghamton Orchestras.
Tango is closely identified with an instrument not commonly found in classical chamber music ensembles or orchestras: the bandoneon. A button squeezebox instrument developed in Germany and constructed of wood, metal, leather, and mother of pearl, the bandoneon is a formidably difficult instrument to play. Its sonorities define tango.
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