Gabriel Merlino (born 1977) is one of the most important

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players from the new generation. From 8 years old he started with bandoneon studies. His professors were

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, the biggest bandoneon classical concertist in history, and

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. His professional career began when Merlino was 12, playing in chamera orquestras, tango shows and having the support of

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from Sexteto Mayor. In 1995 he created Nuevo Siglo Tango, a quartet who was pioneer from the new generation of

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Groups in Argentina. With Nuevo Siglo he performed between 1996 and 2001, more than 800 concerts, in theaters, radio and television (he was, for example, the first bandoneon player on giving Bandoneon Cathedra on Argentine TV). Between 2002 and 2010 he made 20 tours around USA, Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Lebanon and Netherlands, with his bandoneon solos show and with his different ensembles. Merlino recorded in 2005 “Bandoneon Dreams”,Bandoneon Dreams the first world music bandoneon recording, with

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, and

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

, in standards form and own compositions too.

References

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