Argentinian composer performer and i’m
here to share my experience as a
performer composer artist and also to
introduce this a beautiful instrument
that is called bandoneon it’s a German
instrument invented to play religious
music in the food churches of Germany
that couldn’t afford to have an organ
once one of the most particular things
about this instrument is the keyword and
believe it or not this instrument was
very popular in the 1920s so popular
that if you brought it to the beach it
was considered something very cool here
you can see some guys in Germany with
the bandoneon somehow the instrument
ended up in Argentina and it became the
main voice of tango music here you can
see one of the most famous orchestras
and even Troilus you can see Astor
Piazzolla when he was very young on the
left there were many orchestras of this
kind and most of this Orchestra had five
Antonio players in each orchestra they
were very popular many people relate
this instrument to the accordion but
it’s quite different as I said before
the most particular thing is the key
word every button plays two notes one
else when i open the billows
and the same bottom when I close change
the pitch
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and on my left hand I have the lower
register
as you can hear also the intervals are
always different so we have to practice
for keywords to keywords opening and two
keywords closing of course I didn’t know
about this when I first got the
bandoneon I don’t think we had gotten
into this and I remember I went to the
music store a body and I took it to my
place I started practicing a little bit
and I went back to the music store two
days later and I wanted to return it
because he didn’t make any sense to me
and so I remember I told the store guy
can I exchange it can I change it for
something else oh and the guy told me I
told me I don’t think it makes any sense
to me I think it might be broken so the
store right on me I’m sorry it does how
it works and is actually too late for a
return sometimes I wonder if that’s why
the German send it to Argentina so what
I had to learn it and after 13 years and
working with this instrument I mean so
many places they meet so many incredible
artist so the biggest lesson is that
sometimes mistakes will take you to the
best places you never imagined before
that’s what happened to him so I’m gonna
go back in time now when I was 18 years
old about my fingers own in Argentina we
had a huge economic crisis I remember we
had a fight precedence in two weeks and
my mother yeah my mother left my country
to get a cochlear implant for my young
brother Juan Manuel who was deaf at that
time and I decided to enter the music
score to study composition in order to
study composition I had to play piano so
I remember when I gave my piano exam I
fail and they told me I was too old to
learn a nice
so they put me in the music theory class
that what where I kept learning a
harmony concert pony orchestration stuff
that i was already learning in free
college until one day i was lucky to
have a great conversation with a great
teacher his name is a next-door longer
and remember we were talking and he told
me JP I think college is not for you and
I suggest you to take private lessons
and go by Iran I think you’re going to
be doing great in few years but I don’t
think college is the right fit for you
and I was I whoa how can you advise
someone to to leave college I was like
this guy’s out of his mind how I’m gonna
get a sec job I’m gonna get a diploma
and I was very worried and I remember
the day I remembered two beautiful quote
the Rev read on a self-help book when my
mother left my country and the first
quote is what would you do if you were
not afraid and the second point is every
change in your life brings something
good that’s when I realized I was only
in college because I was afraid of
failing I was afraid of not have any
diploma I was afraid of not having a
safe job so I decided to follow this
advices and I left college and I started
taking private lessons and I got this
instrument and I started to practice
very hard I remember I saw my my sister
is studying law and she spent four to
five hours in college then for I was
reading books and I thought to myself
well I’m gonna have to do the same job
so I had I tried to see embedded eight
hours nine hours
day in music and so one day I was lucky
to have an alicia with one of the
greatest band on your masters from
Argentina mr. Daniel Benelli who Herman
performing and he gave me some great
advice and he brought a beautiful
recommendation later then I recorded
video of myself of playing some music of
Bach piazzolla and I applied for a grant
grant that I was lucky to get a year
later and allowed me to study with
another of the greatest funda new
teachers coolio punny I studied with
Julio Pawnee for three years and I
remember well I got my first gig and one
key bro another and another and another
and i think i think i’ve been doing
pretty ok this is i want to show you now
this is the one national concert hall in
concert with an orchestra this is Korea
where we perform with paquito d’rivera
16 grammy winner artist that also has
record my music this is celebrity series
of Boston and Jordan Hall a few years
ago that’s a Panama world music festival
that’s a beautiful article in The New
York Times and I’m still 33 years old
and I have a lot to learn a lot to do
but i don’t think i would have done any
of these without following these two
advices what would you do if you were
not afraid and every change in your life
bring something good so that’s my
experience and thank you so much for
listening to me we want to now play
i would like to introduce on the violin
edek simpler on the double bass Chris
Johnson on the piano public a fishy and on the cello Amy kanga