London Tango Orchestra Escuela
Hola!
After a great tango weekend at Benslow Music inspiration hit David Bailey and myself! We have got a new project underway that I'm really excited about and I wanted to tell you about it and see if you'd like to take part or know someone who would like to take part!
I am joining up with the Learning Tango Dance School (http://learningtango.com/) to create a London Tango Orquesta Escuela - this is a tango music training orchestra for semi-pros and amateur musicians. You need to be able to read music and having the equivalent of a Grade 3 standard upwards would be very helpful. There will be 4 performances throughout the year at real milongas to recreate the feel of tango as it is in Buenos Aires, and one rehearsal a month of 4 hours in London on either Saturdays or Sundays.
The address of the rehearsals is usually The Premises Studios in central London.
The performance dates are:
October 7, January 6, April 7 and June 16 with Learning Tango.
Rehearsal dates are:
September 3
October 7
November 19
December 9
January 6
February 24
March 24
April 7
May 13
June 16
We will be asking students to pay to join this project in order to help cover the cost of room hire, rental of keyboards, professional bandoneon/accordionists fee and other equipment and to pay the tango music teachers. We plan to bring in teachers from Argentina when they are on tour in the UK and possibly join in up with the Teddington Tango Orchestra to have a great big event together! The monthly rehearsals will be held by myself and/or Andrew Oliver (pianist of LTO).
For those who are interested please let me know what your level is (arrangements will cater to the various levels of the students).
We ask that those who decide to join, to commit to the performance and rehearsal dates so that we can create a great orchestral sound and have fantastic performances together!
We will build up over the year from a few pieces in the first milonga in October to hopefully a full set of 45 minutes or more by June next year!
The instruments we are looking for are:
Accordion/bandoneon
Violin/viola/cello
Double bass
Piano
Guitar
Flute/clarinet
Voice
Guitar
There is no limit to how many students we can accept so feel free to join us!
Thanks for reading and hope to play tango with you soon!
After a great tango weekend at Benslow Music inspiration hit David Bailey and myself! We have got a new project underway that I'm really excited about and I wanted to tell you about it and see if you'd like to take part or know someone who would like to take part!
I am joining up with the Learning Tango Dance School (http://learningtango.com/) to create a London Tango Orquesta Escuela - this is a tango music training orchestra for semi-pros and amateur musicians. You need to be able to read music and having the equivalent of a Grade 3 standard upwards would be very helpful. There will be 4 performances throughout the year at real milongas to recreate the feel of tango as it is in Buenos Aires, and one rehearsal a month of 4 hours in London on either Saturdays or Sundays.
The address of the rehearsals is usually The Premises Studios in central London.
The performance dates are:
October 7, January 6, April 7 and June 16 with Learning Tango.
Rehearsal dates are:
September 3
October 7
November 19
December 9
January 6
February 24
March 24
April 7
May 13
June 16
We will be asking students to pay to join this project in order to help cover the cost of room hire, rental of keyboards, professional bandoneon/accordionists fee and other equipment and to pay the tango music teachers. We plan to bring in teachers from Argentina when they are on tour in the UK and possibly join in up with the Teddington Tango Orchestra to have a great big event together! The monthly rehearsals will be held by myself and/or Andrew Oliver (pianist of LTO).
For those who are interested please let me know what your level is (arrangements will cater to the various levels of the students).
We ask that those who decide to join, to commit to the performance and rehearsal dates so that we can create a great orchestral sound and have fantastic performances together!
We will build up over the year from a few pieces in the first milonga in October to hopefully a full set of 45 minutes or more by June next year!
The instruments we are looking for are:
Accordion/bandoneon
Violin/viola/cello
Double bass
Piano
Guitar
Flute/clarinet
Voice
Guitar
There is no limit to how many students we can accept so feel free to join us!
Thanks for reading and hope to play tango with you soon!