Sponsored Post – Local Artists Of Piazzolla 100 Invite You To Cuartetango String Quartet & Dance At Good Shepherd Chapel And Paint The Music At Southpoint Park For Roosevelt Island Fall For Arts Festival Saturday September 25
Leonardo Suarez Paz and Olga Suarez Paz are Roosevelt Island residents and artists.
Leonardo is the Artistic Director and Olga the Executive Director of PIAZZOLLA 100:
… an interdisciplinary performing arts project 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.Celebrating thecentennialof Leonardo
Suarez Pazs mentor and family friend, Astor Piazzolla, who was born in Mar
de Plata, Argentina in 1921 and grew up in New York City, the project
honors the legacy of this revolutionary composer by demonstrating the genre
as acomplex,evolving art form, while challenging artistic
and sociocultural constructs.
Our missionis to further the genre of Nuevo Tango by elevating its artistic standards
through live performances, recordings, publications and education, by
demonstrating its evolution as an entire culture through every form of
expression – music, dance, interdisciplinary work, visual art, literature
and cinema.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 & Olga Suarez Paz were featured in the Dear New York TV program earlier this month. Watch this video to learn more about the artistic Roosevelt Island couple.
Celebrating the centennial of his mentor, Astor Piazzolla, an Argentine-born and New York raised composer, Leonardo Suarez Paz leads his Latin GRAMMY-nominated group to the forefront of 21st century Nuevo Tango. A virtuoso extraordinaire on the violin (Wynton Marsalis), he brings forth a new vision of Argentinas rich culture with an ingenious musical concept, (The Day, CT) – the classical string quartet that personifies and embodies the authentic spirit of Tango (Latin Grammy).
Discover Nuevo Tango through a multidisciplinary journey into modern chamber music with Leonardo Suarez Paz (voice & 1st violin), Hector Omar Falcon (2nd violin), Ron Lawrence (viola), Danny Miller (cello), and guests Rodolfo Zanetti on bandoneon, and Olga Suarez Paz – Nuevo Tango Ballet.
Outdoor event. South Point Park, East Lawn, Roosevelt Island, NY 10044
Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100: “PAINT the MUSIC” a multidisciplinary children’s art class A creative exploration of musical concepts through painting and movement. In this class, children immerse themselves into a world of multiple art disciplines as we lead them to interpret the music of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons through action painting and other abstract art techniques developed by innovators like Vasilly Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock. Led by Grammy-nominated composer & artistic director of PIAZZOLLA 100 – Leonardo Suarez Paz, choreographer & artist Olga Suarez Paz (Nuevo Tango Ballet), and special guests – dance artist Corey Katano & visual artist Susana Aldanondo.
