The Cuartetango string quartet will perform excerpts from "The Rites of Love," a new ballet by Leonardo Suarez-Paz on Friday June 14 at the Roosevelt Island Chapel of the Good Shepherd Community Center (543 Main Street). According to Suarez Paz Tango:
Join us for a one of a kind program by the double Latin Grammy nominated Cuartetango string quartet in the acoustically superior historic Chapel of the Good Shepherd. The string quartet will perform excerpts from "The Rites of Love," a new composition by Leonardo Suarez-Paz which will premiere in late 2024. The evening's program will also feature poetry, instrumental and vocal works by Astor Piazzolla and post-Piazzolla composers.
Cuartetango has been featured multiple times at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chautauqua Institution, live at the Latin Grammy Awards, Teatro Colon Opera House and many other venues. Award winning artists include Leonardo Suarez Paz (violin I, voice, direction), Francisco Salazar (violin II), Jon Weber (viola) and Danny Miller (violoncello).
WHERE: The Chapel of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, New York NY 10044
An immersive, multidisciplinary art experience & GALA celebration!
One of New York City's historic chapels is transformed into an elegant salon for a special evening of intimate chamber music, dance performance and art exhibit.
December 11th is the International Day of Tango which celebrates the history
and nature of a genre born from a mixture of multiple cultures. This Gala
celebrates our mission of unity through the arts and is a unique opportunity
to connect with artists of Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100, who brought
numerous free concerts and classes to Roosevelt Island over the past several
years and to connect with community members.
The evening's program will showcase works in progress by the musicians of
PIAZZOLLA 100 and Nuevo Tango Ballet and feature artwork from "Paint the
Music" workshop, wines, meet the artists, and more. Featured artists include
Leonardo Suarez Paz, guitarist Greg Skaff and members of Nuevo Tango Ballet -
Olga Suarez Paz, Francesca Antonacci, Mathilde Guerrero and Brianna
Rivera.
WHEN: DECEMBER 11th, 2021 - 5-7 PM
WHERE: Historic Chapel of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, New York NY
10044
Leonardo & Olga Suarez Paz were featured in the
Dear New York TV program last September. Watch this video to learn more about the artistic
Roosevelt Island couple.
SAME DAY TICKETS are available at the venue on a first come first serve basis
El Nuevo Tango features "virtuoso extraordinaire," Leonardo Suarez Paz (Wynton Marsalis), an 11 piece tango-jazz fusion orchestra with soloist Patience Higgins and Nuevo Tango Ballet under the direction of Olga Suarez Paz. A cross-cultural production, the show celebrates the centennial of Leonardo’s mentor, Astor Piazzolla, an Argentine-born and New York raised composer, by demonstrating tango as an evolving, daring, artistically complex, and emotionally moving genre. "Powerful and sensual" (All About Jazz)
El Nuevo Tango cast includes violin soloist, vocalist, and dancer Leonardo Suarez Paz and Patience Higgins on tenor saxophone, members of Latin Grammy-nominated Cuaretango string quartet - Sami Merdinian (violin I), Francisco Salazar (violin II), Ron Lawrence (viola), Danny Miller (cello), Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneon), Ahmed Alom (piano), Pablo Cafici (keyboard), Konrad Adderley (contrabass), Matt Vander Ende (drums). Nuevo Tango Ballet with Olga Suarez Paz, Mathilde Guerrero, Brianna Rivera, Francesca Antonacci, Carolina Cabrera Volpe and choreographies by Ace-Award winning artist Laura Roatta, Olga Suarez Paz and Leonardo Suarez Paz. Special visual arts feature - Lulú Michelli de Ferrer, surrealist painter and illustrator and wife of the late poet and Piazzolla's lyricist, Horacio Ferrer.
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango is made possible in part with public funds from Restart NY, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, support from the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, City Artists Corps Grant, Music Performance Trust Fund and Dance/NYC.
Presented by Four Freedoms Park Conservancy and with the support of Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation and contributions from individual donors, through our fiscal sponsor, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
Leonardo & Olga Suarez Paz were featured in the
Dear New York TV program last September. Watch this video to learn more about the artistic
Roosevelt Island couple and importance of the Four Freedoms Park.
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 the centennial of Leonardo
Suarez Paz’s 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 a complex, 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 Argentina’s 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.
Leonardo Suarez Paz and Olga Suarez Paz are Roosevelt Island residents and
artists.
Leonardo is the Artistic Director and Olga the Executive Director of
the
PIAZZOLLA 100 Festival:
... 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 the centennial of Leonardo
Suarez Paz’s 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 a complex, 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....
According to this September 2 press release from Piazzolla 100:
on the four major NY broadcast network affiliates over Labor Day weekend to
bring attention to and raise funds for underserved New Yorkers who have been
affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Standup comedian, actor, singer, and lifelong New Yorker, Robert Klein
narrates the television special which showcases four JAR grantee
organizations, including the New York Foundation for the Arts with sponsored
artists and directors of the
PIAZZOLLA 100 Festival
in New York, Leonardo Suarez-Paz & Olga Suarez-Paz.
Other grantees include EMS FDNY Help Fund, Harlem Girls Cheer, and John Jay
College."Dear New York” can be viewed on Saturday, September 4 at 12:00 pm ET on WNBC
and 7:00 pm ET on CBS2, and Sunday, September 5 at 5:30 pm ET on WABC
and 6:30 pm ET on FOX
“Artists and immigrants are vital to the culture and the economy of New
York City. We are grateful for the support we’ve received and we are giving
back by creating free, multidisciplinary arts programming in New York that
builds community and supports dozens of artists. My hope is that New York
will once again be a mecca for the arts,” explains composer, violinist,
vocalist, and choreographer Leonardo Suarez-Paz.
Leonardo & Olg Suarez-Paz, are Roosevelt Island residents who focus
their projects on cross-cultural and multidisciplinary collaboration. This
fall they will present multiple performances and educational programs
on the island in collaboration with FDR 4 Freedoms Park and RIOC.
For more information on Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100 event on RI go
to:www.piazzolla100.com
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Last Saturday evening December 12, the Roosevelt Island Good Shepherd Chapel Sanctuary was the venue for a live streaming performance by locally based Leonardo Suarez Paz/Piazzolla 100.
...El Nuevo Tango is an interdisciplinary show infused with jazz, rock and modern dance - a tango show for the new century. Mentored by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer who revolutionized tango, artistic director, Leonardo Suarez Paz leads a tango-jazz fusion orchestra with tango dance and the nuevo tango ballet in a concert which celebrates liberty and the invaluable contribution of immigrants and women to society, while challenging artistic and cultural constructs of our genre....
... The Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Roosevelt Island, NYC
under strict Covid-19 protocols. This concert is made possible in part by the RIOC Public Purpose Fund
Dance/NYC Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund and your charitable contributions made at www.piazzolla100.com...
You can now watch the wonderful performance here.
Click the full screen icon at bottom right of video for better viewing.
On December 12, Leonardo Suarez Paz Tango/Piazzolla 100 will present from Roosevelt Island's Good Shepherd Chapel Sanctuary a free live streaming concert described as an:
... interdisciplinary show infused with jazz, rock and modern dance - a tango show for the new century
featuring an orchestra and dancers of the all female Nuevo Tango Ballet....
Our current project Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100 is dedicated not only to Leonardo's mentor, Astor Piazzolla, an Argentine born New Yorker, but to promoting the arts of the immigrants and celebrating their invaluable contribution to our culture and society.
PIAZZOLLA 100 calls Roosevelt Island it's home, both administratively and creatively. It engages over 50 artists locally and internationally and is the only professional performing arts entity on the island.
A lot of the work created by the company in the last two decades was created for tours, television and recordings, our mission with PIAZZOLLA 100 and all of our current work is to establish a public presence Roosevelt Island and to share with our community the work being created here for NY and international theaters, so that the residents may enjoy a richer cultural and artistic environment and engage in promoting unity, inclusion, equality and liberty - the central themes of what every immigrant comes here in search of.
The multidisciplinary project connects people and artists across generations and cultures and includes music (chamber & symphonic), dance, interdisciplinary performance, literature, cinema and education and functions as a non for profit entity under the sponsorship of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
The project recreates Tango as an elevated, contemporary and relevant art form, infusing it with modern choreographic elements and influences from classical, jazz and popular music.
This program is dedicated to Liberty, the central theme of our 2021 festival and previews the interdisciplinary show, El Nuevo Tango. Featuring Grammy winning and Latin Grammy nominated Leonardo Suarez Paz, tango orchestra, tango dance and an all female Nuevo Tango Ballet. Challenging artistic, sociocultural and gender constructs, this show takes us to the forefront of the genre and expresses the real present art of Nuevo Tango today.
A small group of lucky visitors to the Roosevelt Island FDR Four Freedoms Park enjoyed a socially distanced concert last Thursday afternoon, October 8, by the Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100: Cuartetango string quartet & bandoneon:
The wonderful performance :
Celebrating LIBERTY - Promoting the VOTE
can now be enjoyed by you and many others on this video. (Click on the full screen icon at bottom right of video for best view).
The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy hosts a special preview of Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100 Festival whose mission it is to celebrate liberty and honor the invaluable contribution of immigrants to society, including our namesake’s, the Argentine born and New York raised composer who mentored Leonardo Suarez Paz.
The program will feature the double Latin GRAMMY-Award nominated Cuartetango string quartet and bandoneon.
Leonardo Suarez Paz, director, violin, vocals,
Hector Omar Falcon, violin
Ron Lawrence, viola
Danny Miller, cello and
Rodolfo Zanetti, bandoneon.
We will celebrate the freedom of expression and perform in honor of Piazzolla’s violinist Fernando Suarez Paz, who passed away on September 12th, 2020 and whose fearless authenticity helped shape the sound of Nuevo Tango. In a time when the world needs justice and equality, there couldn’t have been a better way to reaffirm our belief in the essential human freedoms than celebrating it at the Four Freedoms Park with a Nuevo Tango concert, a genre born out of the search for liberty.
The park is tribute to the life and vision of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a son of New York and a beloved president who, with great courage in troubled times, expanded and preserved the democratic way of life. Conceived in the 1970’s and opened in 2012, the park’s design was the last major work of Louis Kahn, an immigrant to the US and one of the most celebrated architects of the twentieth century. A sculpture of FDR by Jo Davidson, who was amazed by Roosevelt’s “unshakable faith in man” graces the forecourt of the park and reminds us that “in Roosevelt’s tremendous relief program, the artist too was included.”
The concert will include a special call to action, reminding our live and online audience members to REGISTER and VOTE in the November election. Voter registration forms and stamps will be available on site at the park before, during and after the concert.
Clich here to enjoy more performances from the Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100 Festival including a Nuevo Tango Ballet at the FDR 4 Freedoms Park and concert at Good Shepherd Chapel.
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