Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 7:30 PM – 10 PM
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom Street @ 23rd Street,
San Francisco, California
Corazon Tango presents traditional and contemporary
Argentine tango pieces arranged by world-renowned maestros from the
mid-twentieth century to the present. The program will include a variety of
solo, duo, trio, and quartet arrangements.
All the Corazon members are graduates from prestigious
Tango orchestra, La orquesta escuela de tango, Emilio Balcarce which directed
and taught by the legendary maestros.
Guest artist, Maximiliano Larrea, is native Argentine who
is highly trained tango and folklore guitarist, arranger and composer from
Conservatorio De Manuel de Falla.
About Corazon Tango,
Main members of Corazon Tango were all born in S. Korea,
however they spent their early adulthood in 3 separate cities such as San
Francisco (Sumi Lee, Pianist), Buenos Aires (Hanel Yeon, Bandoneonist) and
Seoul (YoonHo Jeong, Bassist). Love of Tango music put us together in Buenos
Aires through one of the most prestigious & competitive Tango orchestra
schools in the world, “La orquesta escuela de tango, Emilio Balcarce” in 2017.
Since then the rest is history.
They all have very similar tango training, theater
performance track records in Buenos Aires under the same maestros who taught us
everything about Tango such as Maestro Victor Lavallen and Maestro Roberto
Alvarez (Color Tango), who were the Osvaldo Pugliese’s bandoneonist and
arranger. Maestro Jose Colangeolo, who
was the Anibal Troilo’s last pianist, etc... (More details on www.sumilee.com)
Argentine Tango Music changed their lives profoundly. Their
desire to study and perform Tango music, made them to move and live in Buenos
Aires for years and a decade. After years of assimilation and absorbing the
knowledge of Tango Music, they now want to share and give back to the people in
their own communities and the world.
Their founding members are three, however, they often
invite local and visiting artists to collaborate as a Quartet, Quintet and etc.
And, they are planning to perform throughout the state and Asia coming years.
Corazon Tango is seeking for the sponsorships, patrons
and various kinds of support to lay the stage on which their creativity can be
expressed and shared. Please contact them if you are interested in booking and
contributing. They are located in the Bay Area & Seoul, S. Korea.
- Extra note, when Sumi Lee returned to Bay Area from
Argentina, she realized that the public gets limited exposure to performing
artists of diverse cultures, especially in the fields of non-popular music such
as Argentine Tango, and musicians do not receive sufficient support unless they
have established a name for themselves already. This problem can be further
exacerbated if the artists performs a culturally unique genre that is yet to be
known to the masses. She believes in cultural diversity and equal opportunity
for all art forms, and she is enthused about supporting talented local and
visiting guest artists from all around the world to provide local audiences
with diverse music programs in high quality, live performances. She organizes
live tango music performances in Bay Area via Golden Gate Int’l Artists.
FEATURING:
Sumi Lee - piano
YoonHo Jeong - contrabass
Hanel Yeon - bandoneon
Maximiliano Larrea (guest artist) – guitar
Cost: $25 – $30
