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INTRODUCTION
The quintet, as an instrumental group format, is nowadays a “classic” one in the development of the musical history of Tango. It is plenty enough to mention the “Quinteto Real” of Horacio Salgán, Astor Piazzolla’s “Quinteto Nuevo Tango”, “Pedro Laurenz Quinteto”, “Rodolfo Mederos Quinteto”, etc.
The Quinteto Típico Buenos Aires was formed at the beginning of 2000. Its members are: Luis Sava (violin), Alejo Caramés (electric guitar and arrangements), Juan Pablo Navarro (contrabass), Javier Sánchez (bandoneon) and Norberto Vogel (piano and arrangements).
The repertoire performed by the quintet includes classical Tango pieces that read over the whole Tango epochs. In it we can find instrumental and vocal pages that represents both the beginnings of the genus and also the most ultimate exposures of it: “La cumparsita”, “El día que me quieras”, “Caminito”, “El motivo”, “El pañuelito”, “El Choclo”, “A Don Agustín Bardi”, “Invierno Porteño”, “Canaro en París”, “Adiós nonino”, “Quejas de bandoneón”, among others.
These pieces have, of course, stamped the seal of the musical style of the Quinteto Típico Buenos Aires. Within the arrangements one can perceive with straight clearness the characteristic music elements of Tango, left untouched, in spite of it’s present-like and renewed sound. Some of the pieces are faithful adaptations of the original composers’ versions, and others were specially created for the quintet by its arrangers, respecting its original melodies and recreating both harmony and rhythm without loosing at all the spirit and essence of Tango.
Nowadays, the Quinteto Típico Buenos Aires is presenting it’s first CD “Tangos clásicos” at Café Tortoni every friday at 23:00 p.m., the CD includes a prologue written by two great Tango Masters such as Leopoldo Federico and Horacio Malvicino
THE MUSICIANS
Alejo Gabriel Caramés
(electric guitar and arrangements)
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1969. He makes his first guitar studies at the “Academia Superior Carmelo Rizzuti”, continuing later in the “Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla”, and, finally, in the “Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda” where he gets the degree of “Popular Music Guitarist” in the specialty of “Tango Guitar”. There he studies with Aníbal Arias, Rubén “Chocho” Ruiz and Hugo Romero (tango), and Masters Rodolfo Mederos and Rodolfo Alchourrón (arrangements and orchestra practices). In the present he prolongs his Tango arrangements studies with Master Rodolfo Mederos.
Since 1995 he has been performing as a Tango guitarist, both in live performances and in recordings. Joining different instrumental groups, and also playing as an accompanist of important Tango singers. He took part, as a musician and arranger, of several theatre plays.
Nowadays he joins “Hombres de Tango” (trio), in which he is in charge of the musical direction and the arrangements, and the “Quinteto Típico Buenos Aires”. Besides he is a guitar teacher in private classes and in different institutions, like Facultad de Derecho (Universidad de Buenos Aires). He is also required as an arranger in different projects such as CD recordings for singers, music for Tango dance, arrangements for the music of theatre plays, etc.
Juan Pablo Navarro
(double-bass)
He was born in Mar del Plata in 1971. He obtained the title of Superior Professor in Solfeggio, Theory and Guitar at the Instituto de Enseñanza Integral in 1988. Then he continued his studies at the Conservatorio Provincial de Música Luis Gianneo, and in 1992 he obtained the title of Professor in Musical Education and, in 1996 Professor of Contrabass. He made in addition studies of with professor Juan Pablo Santandreu, contrabass with the Teachers Sergio Gugliotta, Rodolfo Lamedica, Ricardo Planas, Oscar Carnero. Scholared by the Asociación Amigos de la Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal, he participates in the VII and VIII Campus of Chamber music in Santa María de la Armonía directed by the Spanish Teacher Jordi Mora. Winner of the Aid of Scholarships of Fundación Antorchas, makes a performance residency in the Carnegie Mellom University, Pittsburgh, in the United States. There he studied contrabass and repertoire with the Teachers Anthony Bianco and Jeff Turner, among others: Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Mar del Plata, Orquesta de Arcos, Quinteto de Cuerdas Argentango, Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Mar del Plata, Big Band “Opus 15”, Canegie Mellon Phillarmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh, Orquesta Típica de los hermanos Caló, Juan Carlos Cirigliano trío, Leopoldo Federico cuarteto. Nowadays he joins (by contest) the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Argentino de La Plata and the Quinteto Típico Buenos Aires.
Javier Sánchez
(bandoneon)
He was born in 1974. He made his first music studies at the “Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda”, continuing afterwards, in the “Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla”, where he still attends the professorship of Bandoneon of Master Rodolfo Daluisio.
He’s joined different instrumental groups such as “Orquesta Típica”, under the direction of Master Joaquín Amenabar; “Almagro Argentino”, “Cuarteto Chacabuco”, with which he has performed in various Tango places like “La Viruta”, “Centro Cultural Plaza Defensa”, “Biblioteca Juan B. Justo“, “FM La Isla”, “FM de la Ciudad”,”Salón Canning”, etc.
Nowadays, and from the it’s very beginnings, he performs bandoneon in the Quinteto Típico Buenos Aires, playing at “Salón Dorado de la Casa de la Cultura”, “Café Tortoni”, “Restaurante 9 de Julio”, among other places. He also joined a musical group that performed the music of the theatre play “Fausto” in the “Teatro IFT”. He realized a tour in Norway as a soloist with the quintet Buenos Aires Tango.
Luis Sava
(violin)
He started studying violin at the age of eight with his grandfather Florika Sava, later he continued with Master Teachers like Ljerko Spiller and Alberto Varady. Since 1994 his studies are guided by Master José Bondar.
He entered the Orquesta de Cámara de la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación, reaching the position of leader of the second violins. Then he took part of the Orquesta Juvenil de Radio Nacional and Orquesta Académica del Teatro Colón, there as Concertino, and he was selected as first violin of the Quinteto de Cuerdas of the same orchestra. He integrated the Orquesta de la Universidad Católica Argentina, Orquesta de Jovens do Mercosul (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), and finally, in 1999 he entrered, by contest, the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Argentino de La Plata, in wich he plays nowadays as first violin.
His performing activity as a soloist has leaded him to play with several and important orchestras: Orquesta de Cámara Scherzo, Orquesta de Cámara de la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación, Orquesta de Cámara del Festival de Artes de Itú (Brasil), Orquesta Académica del Teatro Colón and Orquesta de la Universidad de Lanús (Buenos Aires). He performed in the most well known concert halls in Buenos Aires: Teatro Colón (main stage), Aula Magna de la Facultad de Derecho, Sala Casacuberta del Teatro Municipal San Martín, Auditorio del Centro Cultural Recoleta, among others.
Norberto Vogel
(piano and arrangements)
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1972. He started taking piano classes at the age of four, continuing his studies with outstanding teachers like Master Zeoli and Master Pedro Aguilar. He studied audioperceptive with Noemí Lomanto, classical piano with Beatriz Tabares and jazz with Santiago Giaccobbe and Juan Carlos Cirigliano.
By means of a scholarship granted in 1991, he continued his studies at the “Universidad Hebrea de Israel” (Rubin Academy of Music & Dance), where he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Music specialized in Jazz and Contemporary Music, and, by a second scholarship, he obtained the Master of Music, this time specialized in music for cinematography, TV commercials and theatre plays. He composed various music scores for films made by Adir Zik (Israelite film director), TV, cable programs, and also independent producers. He joined the groups “Tango Bar” and “Señor Tango” as a pianist and arranger, performing all over Israel. He also took part of the “Israel Festival of Music”
In 1999, settled in Buenos Aires, he started his bandoneon studies with Master Néstor Marconi, and joined the trio “Hombres de Tango”, as a bandoneon player and arranger. He took part, both as arranger and pianist, of the Tango quintet “El Arrastre”.
In the present he practices the teaching of music and piano at several institutions such as “Tademus”, “Emba”, etc., and he is in charge of CD productions for various Tango singers.
Gabriel Domínguez
(guest singer)
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. He made studies of guitar, singing and musical theory at the Instituto Musical Odeón, improving his singing tecnique with masters Rubén Alvarado and Guillermo Parmigiani, among others.
He started his artistic career at the age of sixteen winnig a singers contest in a famous TV show callad “Grandes Valores del Tango”, in which he finally gets the first prize. So he begins his proffessional career sharing the scene with important tango singers like Hugo Marcel, Raúl Lavié, Nelly Vázquez, etc., in a cycle of presentations in Canal 9. After that hi is required by master Ernesto Baffa, as the singer of his orquestra, performing in the most important Tango places in Buenos Aires and in theatres all above Argentina. Between 1995 and 1997 he presented himself in TV Tango shows like Crónica TV y América 2. In 1998 he makes a very succesful cycle at the Alcazar Theatre of San Francisco (EEUU) as the singer of the spectacle “Tango” by Rafael Nicolau.
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