Eternal Piazzolla - CD

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In Eternal Piazzolla, Del Curto honors the music of Astor Piazzolla and features his tango quintet with notable guest artist Pablo Ziegler who was Astor Piazzolla's pianist for ten years. "My relationship with Piazzolla's music had a long journey," Del Curto explains, "my father, Luis is a tango traditionalist" and did not accept New Tango. It was not until the age of 17, when I performed with the Astor Piazzolla Sextet and the Osvaldo Pugliese Orchestra at the Royal Theatre Carr in Amsterdam that his music emerged in my musical life." Tango has been in the Del Curto family since the early 1900s. Hector s great grandfather was a bandoneonist and composer, and his grandfather, also a great bandoneon player, introduced Hector to the world of Tango and the bandoneon. By the age of 17, Hector Del Curto had won the title Best Bandoneon Player Under 25 in Argentina, and was invited to join the orchestra of the legendary Osvaldo Pugliese, the Last Giant of Tango.

Since then he has performed with many notable musicians from the world of Jazz, Classical and Tango, such as Astor Piazzolla, Pablo Ziegler, Paquito D Rivera, Gary Burton, and Joe Lovano, as well as with Met Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra among many others.