ARTE Duo: Concerts with Claudio Ortega

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Description

These intimate tango concerts are special events for tango music connoisseurs, as well as chamber music and jazz lovers looking to enrich their musical palate. The performance will feature an amazing variety of tangos. From the grandeur of big orchestra arrangements to the intimacy of duos and trios to Piazzolla and other modern tango composers to the present day, you will be on a breathtaking journey filled with passion, love and nostalgia.

Alex Roitman Tango Ensemble (ARTE) is a Sarasota-based group performing exciting authentic Argentine Tango music, for both dancers and listeners. Combining strong classical skills with the extensive tango style training and individual musicality, this ensemble brings the flavor of Buenos Aires to sophisticated audiences.

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Bios

The group is led by Alex Roitman, a bandoneonist disciple of Hector Del Curto. While living on the West Coast, Alex performed in San Francisco with his previous group Tangonero. Mr. Roitman is a member of a Stowe Tango Music Festival tango orchestra, and a silver medalist of the 2022 Che Bandoneon International Competition (also a bronze medalists of 2018 and 2019). He shared the stage with legendary tango musicians such as Victor Lavallen, Horacio Cabarcos, Pablo Estigarribia, Jose Colangelo, Pablo Agri, Nicolas Ledesma, Humberto Ridolfi, Guillermo Rubino, Julio Pane and Nestor Marconi, as well as the members of Héctor Del Curto's quintet. In the fall of 2020, he relocated to the East Coast, and currently splits his time between Boston Tango Orchestra in the summers and Alex Roitman Tango Ensemble in the winters.

Born in Hong Kong, pianist Crystie Shum began piano lessons at four, and studied for eight years. In 2017, she decided to play piano again, and fell in love with Argentine tango. Since then, she has been receiving coaching from maestros such as Hector Del Curto, Pablo Estigarribia, Gustavo Casenave, Hernan Possetti, Nicolas Ledesma, Adrian Enriquez, Cesar Salgan, Julian Peralta, Juan Pablo Gallardo, and others. Ms. Shum performed at the Stowe Tango Music Festival in 2022 and 2023 with special guests, Victor Lavallen and Guillermo Rubino. In February 2024, she performed in Buenos Aires with Nacho Piana and his group. Crystie is actively performing in the following groups: Alex Roitman Tango Ensemble based in Florida, Orquesta Tipica Domo based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Las Tangueritas based in Los Angeles. Besides music, she is a social worker with two dogs, a parrot, and a tortoise.

Claudio Ortega, the Tango Singer of the Bay Area, is a native and transplant of Buenos Aires. He is known in the tango community for his warm and deep voice and the ability to connect emotionally with his audience. Mr Ortega performed with such ensembles as Tangonero Orchestra, Hugo Wainzinger, Trío Garufa, Cuarteto Diagonal, and Trío Tangazo in between others. He sang at venues like Argentine Tango USA Championship in San Francisco, Los Angeles Ford Amphitheater, Pacífica Mildred Owen Concert Hall, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, and numerous San Francisco Bay Area milongas.