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Bandoneon Master & Composer 

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Raul Jaurena, master of the Tango, is among today’s most prominent bandoneon players. His music 

plays a very personal tribute to the influences of his native South America and his adopted

hometown of New York. It combines the traditional roots of the tango and the style of the

“TangoNuevo” influenced by Astor Piazzolla.

The bandoneon has influenced Jaurena’s life right from the cradle. He was raised in Uruguay and his

father taught him how to play the bandoneon - at the age of eight he already joined a tango

orchestra. The fascination for this highly emotional music grabbed him and has not let go of him ever since. As a member of and adaptor for

various renowned tango-ensembles in the nineteen sixties and seventies in Uruguay, Argentina ,Brasil, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela, Raul

Jaurena lays the tracks for his career. A performance together with Astor Piazzolla at the Montreal Jazz Festival turns out be guiding for his musical

development. The conservation of the musical spirit of Astor Piazzolla becomes his personal vocation: Jaurena’s tango interpretations which are

enriched by influences of jazz, his own arrangements and spontaneous improvisations fascinate a new generation of listeners and dancers.

Besides, his activities remain as many-faceted as the artist himself. His arrangements and his skills as a composer and a solo player make him

equally popular both in the USA and in Europe. The ballet suite he composes in 1995 for the Irene Hultman Dance Company debuts in New York

and is shortly after awarded the “Bessie”. During the same year he was invited to the White House and received a Grammy nomination for his CD

Tango Bar. In 2007 he won a LATIN GRAMMY for best Tango Album "Te amo Tango".

Over the years he has taking charge of the musical direction of many other stage projects and among other things he plays guest performances at

the Thalia Spanish Theatre in New York. He has played with Cuban Jazz saxophone player Paquito D'Rivera, Yo Yo Ma, Giora Feidman, Tango

Five and others. As a soloist he plays with prominent ensembles and  orchestras throughout Europe and he has perform regularly a series of

programs including Klezmer and Tango Music. He has performed at different Universities and Schools with Tango Music Symposium in Hannover,

Halle Kassel, Hamburg, Lubeck, Munter, Lingen, Landshut, Muhigorf, Heidelberg, Bonn, Kiel, Celle, Wurzburg, and Bremen. He was invited as a

special guest to the International Accordeon Festival in San Antonio, Texas and his show Tango & Tango had great success at the Ravinia Festival

​in Chicago.

He toured through Europe with TANGO FIVE and singer Marga Mitchell with the program AMANDO A BUENOS AIRES in 2001. He has been

invited to at the Merkin Concert Hall  in New York with Russian violinist Nina Bellina, the Cleveland Museum of Art en World Music and Dance

Series, the Orchestra Concertante of Chicago conducted by  Hilel Kagan, and at the Fiedrichsbau Theatre in Stuttgart, Germany along with TANGO

FIVE and Marga Mitchell.

From  the last 12 years he does a series of concerts with the Pan American Symphony Orquesta Opera Maria De Buenos Aires, Sudwestdeutsche

Philharmonie Konstanz with Marga Mitchell and Tango Five, The North/South Chamber Orchestra at the Merkin Hall (New York) Conductor Max

Lifchitz, and Tango Mundo at Montclair State University. He performs a series of concerts with Giora Feidman he tours (Boblingen, Balingen,

Russelsheim Theatre, Wurzburg, Ludwigsburg, Bonn, Tuttlinge, Stadthalle, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland and Germany) During the

same year he performs with The Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center along with conductor Dino Anagnost, and also performs with LET'S

TANGO at East Carolina University. In Israel he performs with the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, and in Finland at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.

He was presented an ACE Award (Asocacion de cronistas de espectaculos de la ciudad de New York) for his professional trajectory.

As the result of a continuing search for new experiences, Jaurena’s music has turned into something truly unique. It reflects the influences of

different cultures as well as one hundred years of tango history with all its contradicting emotions. Raul Jaurena - the man that Astor Piazolla once

called one of the greatest bandoneon players ever - has established a unique connection to his instrument: Genuine, open, touching, with stunning

​technical brilliance his play has enriched and added an important facet to modern tango interpretation.

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