About

Redwood Tango Ensemble is a leading North American sextet dedicated to contemporary tango music. Known for visceral and powerful stage performances and innovative original music, Redwood Tango Ensemble is a singular voice within the new generation of cutting edge tango composition and future-driven chamber music in North America.

Led by composer and bandoneonist Charles Gorczynski, the ensemble brings a highly imaginative and physical style of writing that bends conventional notions of genre and musical identity. Redwood is a tango group in its lifeblood and technique, distinct for their reach into new music and modern chamber music.

Redwood Tango Ensemble has debuted compositions with Chamber Music Northwest Festival in Portland, with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and performed on concert bills with Kronos Quartet, Friction Quartet, Tango Sin Fin, Diego Schissi, and many others, presenting and celebrating contemporary tango music.

https://www.redwoodtango.com/

Music

Contemporary tango and new music, from the cutting edge of composers in Buenos Aires and around the world.

The works of Astor Piazzolla for his original quintet, compositions by tango luminaries like Osvaldo Pugliese and Anibal Troilo, and the work of contemporary tango composers like Diego Schissi, Julian Peralta, Daniel Ruggiero, Ramiro Gallo, and more.

Example set:
Escualo - Astor Piazzolla
Tongo 2 - Diego Schissi
La Muerte del Angel - Astor Piazzolla
Verano Porteño - Astor Piazzolla
Variación - Julian Peralta
Nochero Soy - Osvaldo Pugliese
11:15 Roses - Charles Gorczynski
Osvaldo y osvaldo - Daniel Ruggiero

Our focus is on composers that are breaking new boundaries, and works where the influence of tango, new music, and chamber music intersect.

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