Marcelo Nisinman
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Marcelo Nisinman an Argentinian bandoneon
player, composer and arranger.
He has performed with Gidon Kremer
, Britten Sinfonia
, Gary Burton
, Fernando Suarez Paz, Ute Lemper
, Assad Brothers, and the Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Charles Dutoit
. He has also appeared as a soloist with the WDR Big Band under Vince Mendoza
, the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire conducted by John Axelrod
, The Stockholm Symphonic Winds and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Belgrad amongst others. Has performed as bandoneonist with a long list of tango
legends, such as singers Roberto Goyeneche
, Libertad Lamarque
, Susana Rinaldi
, Osvaldo Berlingheri, Osvaldo Tarantino and Amelita Baltar
.
His compositions are diverse and original with their origins in Buenos Aires, Nisinman also takes inspiration from other forms and techniques creating a personal style that breaks the traditions and rules of the "Musica Porteña" (Music of Buenos Aires city). He developed a particular tango style, combining traditional elements with colorful distortions based on atonality and contemporary music.
He has written music for a diverse range of groups, from symphony orchestra to string quartet and in 2004 be wrote his first chamber opera Señor Retorcimientos which premiered in Basel.
He was composer in residence at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival in 2008, and has participated as composer/ performer in different festivals including; Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), Sonoro Festival (Bucharest) Consonances (St Nazaire- France).
During 2006 Nisinman composed a number of vocal works including "Desvios", with a text by Carlos Trafic (released on Acqua Records, 2009) and his New Version of Maria de Buenos Aires (Acqua Records 2010).
In 2009, together with the clarinetist Chen Halevi
he formed his own quartet Tango Factory; the group bring together four very different musicians to explore the tango, playing mainly works by Nisinman and other composers also.
Bandoneón
The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
player, composer and arranger.
Biography
Marcelo Nisinman studied the bandoneon with Julio Pane and composition with Guillermo Graetzer in Buenos Aries and Detlev Müller-Siemens in Basel.He has performed with Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...
, Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK. It was created in 1992, following an initiative from Eastern Arts and a number of key figures including Nicholas Cleobury, who recognised the need for an orchestra in the East of England. It is a flexible ensemble composed of...
, Gary Burton
Gary Burton
Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
, Fernando Suarez Paz, Ute Lemper
Ute Lemper
Ute Lemper is a German chanteuse and actress renowned for her interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill.- Biography :Born in Münster, Germany, Ute Lemper was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She joined the punk music group known as the Panama Drive Band at the age of 16...
, Assad Brothers, and the Philadelphia Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...
conducted by Charles Dutoit
Charles Dutoit
Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...
. He has also appeared as a soloist with the WDR Big Band under Vince Mendoza
Vince Mendoza
Vince Mendoza is a music arranger and composer.Mendoza was born in Connecticut and studied guitar as a child, influenced by classical music, soul and jazz. He then took up the trumpet, which he continued to play throughout his time at Ohio State University, where he played in the Jazz Ensemble and...
, the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire conducted by John Axelrod
John Axelrod
John Neal Axelrod is an American conductor. Axelrod is currently Conductor and Music Director of l'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, based in Nantes and Angers, France; and, from the 2011/12 season the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica "Giuseppe Verdi" also known as "laVerdi"...
, The Stockholm Symphonic Winds and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Belgrad amongst others. Has performed as bandoneonist with a long list of tango
Tango music
Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...
legends, such as singers Roberto Goyeneche
Roberto Goyeneche
Roberto Goyeneche was an Argentine tango singer of Basque descent, who epitomized the archetype of 1950s Buenos Aires' bohemian life, and became a living legend in the local music scene.He was known as El Polaco due to his blond hair, and thinness, like the Polish immigrants of the time...
, Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...
, Susana Rinaldi
Susana Rinaldi
Susana Natividad Rinaldi is an Argentine tango singer.Dubbed "La Tana", she was born Susana Natividad Rinaldi in Buenos Aires on December 25, 1935. The daughter of a wealthy father and a poor mother, she spent her childhood moving throughout different provinces of Argentina...
, Osvaldo Berlingheri, Osvaldo Tarantino and Amelita Baltar
Amelita Baltar
María Amelia Baltar, known as Amelita Baltar is an Argentine tango singer who became famous in the early 1970s as a vocalist for composers and bandoneónists Ástor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer...
.
His compositions are diverse and original with their origins in Buenos Aires, Nisinman also takes inspiration from other forms and techniques creating a personal style that breaks the traditions and rules of the "Musica Porteña" (Music of Buenos Aires city). He developed a particular tango style, combining traditional elements with colorful distortions based on atonality and contemporary music.
He has written music for a diverse range of groups, from symphony orchestra to string quartet and in 2004 be wrote his first chamber opera Señor Retorcimientos which premiered in Basel.
He was composer in residence at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival in 2008, and has participated as composer/ performer in different festivals including; Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), Sonoro Festival (Bucharest) Consonances (St Nazaire- France).
During 2006 Nisinman composed a number of vocal works including "Desvios", with a text by Carlos Trafic (released on Acqua Records, 2009) and his New Version of Maria de Buenos Aires (Acqua Records 2010).
In 2009, together with the clarinetist Chen Halevi
Chen Halevi
Chen Halevi is a clarinettist. A native of the Negev desert in Israel, he studied the clarinet with Yitzchak Kazap and Richard Lesser, continuing with Mordechai Rechtman and Chaim Taub for his chamber music studies.-Debut:...
he formed his own quartet Tango Factory; the group bring together four very different musicians to explore the tango, playing mainly works by Nisinman and other composers also.
CD recordings
- Al Principio: Duos Bandoneon & Double Bass
- Desvios: Tango Theater Music, Music by Marcelo Nisinman, Text by Carlos Trafic.
- New version of Maria de Buenos Aires: a completely new version of the Piazzolla Operita written by Marcelo Nisinman.
- Homenaje al Tango: Marcelo Nisinman and his orchestra. Special guests: Knivkvartetten
- La Cumparsita: solos performed by Marcelo Nisinman
- Tango: Marcelo Nisinman & Tango Orkestret
- Tango for Bad People: Erling Kroner, Marcelo Nisinman and Diana Nuñez
External links
- http://www.nisinman.com/
- http://kroner-music.dk/
- http://www.tangoorkestret.dk
- http://www.garyburton.com/discog.html