Author: Margreet

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Deze zomer gaat Trio Tangata, uitgenodigd door de Accademia de Marco Polo,  opnieuw optreden in het sprookjesachtige kasteeldorp Querceto en in het prachtige Volterra in Toscane.

De combi van Toscane en ons spel en dans wordt weer een feest !
Trio Tangata bestaat uit Margreet Markerink, piano en composities , Jacqueline Edeling, Bandoneon en Boris Franz, contrabas.

Wij geven een concert op
– 5 augustus op Terrazzone del Castello, Quecerto
– 7 augustus samen met de dansers Willem Meul ( België) en Ximena Salazar ( Argentinië)
– 8 augustus in Borgo Pignano, Volterra, samen met samen met de dansers Willem Meul ( België) en Ximena Salazar ( Argentinië)
– 9 augustus in Volterra  –  Cortile interno della Pinacoteca civica

Organisatie Ursula Vetter & Accademia Marco Polo .
We hebben er erg veel zin in om in deze prachtige, inspirerende omgeving op te treden.

Wil je meer weten over deze concerten, of zelfs komen kijken, neem dan contact met mij op.

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Although many musicians are unfortunately still unable to practice their profession well,
we have been very lucky this summer:

The SHM festival Lübeck

With Tangata & Jeannine Geerts we were allowed to play at the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival near Lübeck.
What a party:
750 seats outside in the sun of Pronstorf castle, where the public could enjoy us
Tribute to Astor Piazzolla  performance.

We were moved to finally be able to play again after such a long silence and waiting!
We realized how long Tangata has been playing together and how close we are.

Garden concert Amerongen Castle.

After the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival Trio Tangata played 2 performances on 1 August
with Aubrey Snel saxophone in the castle garden of Amerongen,
a beautiful special day with many enthusiastic reactions.

Tuscanny Tango in Querceto with Trio Tangata

Following the performance in Amerongen, Trio Tangata traveled to the beautiful Querceto in Tuscany.
Here from July 31 to August 7 it was Tuscanny Tango Holiday event organized.
In this magical medieval village in the heart of Tuscany, all kinds of tango activities were organized for a week with workshops, performances and technique / body awareness exercises led by 4 renowned maestros.

A week of concerts under the stars and breathtaking natural beauty,
great dancers and audience. How beautiful is that!

Castelnau des Fieumarcon

How beautiful: to be invited again to play at the Castelnau des Fieumarcon.

Also there, besides meeting my Portuguese and French friends, I gave 2 concerts together with Ad Colen in the castle tower where the grand piano from Lisbon (Palacio Belmonte) had been transferred since this week.

The BBC was there filming for their documentary series “How to run a castle” starring Anali. From my “Luces de Belmonte’ recordings were made that will be included in the documentary. Hilarious, and special!

Dutch Tango Week

Back in the Netherlands, the beautiful performance with Kees Scholten and Gustavo Cabrera for the international Dutch Tangoweek was allowed to continue online from the beautiful Muntgebouw Utrecht.

In short: I really enjoyed so much music in amazingly beautiful and historic locations all summer long. It was possible again, hooray🌹🙏🏼

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11 March 2021 it will be exactly one hundred years ago that the great bandoneonist and composer Astor Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, 500 kilometers south of Buenos Aires.
As a tribute to our great inspirator, Tangata will this year focus on the “ Tribute to Astor PiazzollaProject.

Because our inspiration for tango music largely started with the love for his music, Tangata will play a new performance, where his music is central.

If the borders can open again, we can be seen again this summer at the end of July at the world famous SHM festival! And tour Germany

 

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5 from October 2020, a new project and a new duo has emerged:
together with Ad Colen we explore the possibilities of combining Jazz with Tango and our own music.

Ad Colen, is a Dutch jazz saxophonist, composer and band leader. Colen played the guitar, but eventually opted for the saxophone. He studied at the conservatory in Hilversum and studied with Dick Oatts in New York City

Very nice ! Last month (March 2021) we made film and sound recordings, more news will follow in the coming weeks.
With the garage of Arjen de Jong, Utrecht
Lidy Jansen video, Jan van Rijnsoever sound / editing

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With our performance & #8220; the Courage to leave & #8221; we were allowed to perform during the Grachtenfestival 2020 in Amsterdam.

The Courage to Leave is a performance by Kees Scholten (voice / actor, Emmy Storms (violin) and Margreet Markerink (piano).
During the festival, Emmy received the honorable title & #8220; Artist in Residence & #8221;

click here to watch the performance, it starts at 43m50s. Enjoy watching!

 

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In December 2020 I performed together with saxophonist Aubrey Snell in the Alphense Raadhuis for KHABBAZ Cultuurplatform on location with our performance Bach meets Piazolla.

In this performance we performed music by both church musician Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and composer and tango innovator Astor Piazolla (1921-1992).

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In the fall of 2020 I did a project with Flamenco guitarist Martijn Nanninga.
In various performances we played our own compositions and traditionals from Argentine tango and Southern Spanish Flamenco.

We made a musical quest: how can I find a place in that tango music with those strange rhythms and how can Margreet handle my flamenco songs. This led to interesting discoveries that we would like to share. We also perform solo and perform well-known pieces from our own repertoire. ”

 

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Quarantine Sessions & #8220; Sequime si podes & #8221;

This video from the series of 3 tango “quarantine sessions” films that I made in summer 2020 together with and conducted by Christiaan van Hemert (bandoneon / violin and artistic direction / editing) and fellow musicians worldwide.

These “leaders” from the (tango) music world contributed to this:

bandoneón 1 & #8211; Victor Hugo Villena (Argentina / France)
bandoneón 2 & #8211; Santiago Cimadevilla (Argentina / The Netherlands)
bandoneón 3 & #8211; Christiaan van Hemert (The Netherlands)
violin 1 & #8211; Derk Lottman (The Netherlands)
violin 2 & #8211; Andrea Karina Bentivoglio (Argentina / The Netherlands)
piano & #8211; Margreet Markerink (The Netherlands)
guitar & #8211; Elliot Muusses (The Netherlands)
bass & #8211; Joel Locher (Germany)

For me it was an honor and celebration, despite the fact that we all recorded from home, to know that we played in this special line-up!
A sunny moment in this sad Corona time.

 

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Now on show & hear, this cool piece from the Octeto de Buenos Aires: El Entrerriano (Piazzolla)
led by Christiaan van Hemert, again recorded online at home, as part of quarantine sessions & #x1f3b6;& #x1f3a7;& #x1f3b8;& #x1f3bb;& #x1f3ac;& #x1f3b9;
The miracle happened again: it still sounds! And how!

Christiaan van Hemert:

Every week I will try to collaborate with musician friends from all over to record something truly special. Everyone records their part at home and I & #8217; ll make a mix and edit a video from everything I get sent.

This is episode 5: a super hip arrangement of a very old tango standard called & #8220; El Entrerriano & #8221 ;.

There was a time before my jazz career when tango was the most important music in my life. I was obsessed with understanding the style techniques for the different instruments, the harmony and the arranging / orchestration techniques.

One group in particular had me completely captivated: the Octeto de Buenos Aires which was a very avant garde tango group led by Astor Piazzolla in 1955. The idea was to take old tango standards and arrange them in a fusion style which can be seen as a combination of tango, jazz and neoclassicism (Stravinsky, Respighi, etc.).

At that time most tango lovers hated his arrangements because they were simply too modern and not danceable at all! The group didn & #8217; t last long and the story goes that Piazzolla burned all his scores in frustration (not sure that & #8217; s true). Fact is there are no scores so I did what I had to do and I transcribed a bunch of those tunes note for note, which as you probably will hear is really a loooooot of work but totally worth it!

bandoneon 1 & #8211; Santiago Cimadevilla (Argentina / The Netherlands)
bandoneon 2 & #8211; Christiaan van Hemert (The Netherlands)
violin 1 & #8211; Derk Lottman (The Netherlands)
violin 2 & #8211; Andrea Karina Bentivoglio (Argentina / The Netherlands)
guitar & #8211; Christiaan van Hemert
piano & #8211; Margreet Markerink (The Netherlands)
bass & #8211; Joel Locher (Germany)

NB I know someone is gonna say & #8220; & #8230; octeto? isn & #8217; t that 8 people, I see only 7 people in the video & #8230; & #8221; Yes indeed, nice catch! In the original there is also a cello, but if you listen to the original recordings the cello is really not audible anywhere! The times that I might have perceived a note somewhere I just put it in the left hand of one of the bandoneons!

 

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This period of Corona has suddenly changed so much in the daily lives of all of us.
It will turn the world upside down in a few weeks.
For all musicians, this means that all concerts are suddenly canceled for a long period of time. And we musicians love to give concerts and perform together to make the audience and ourselves happy.
The great concerts this month and next in the Netherlands, Paris and Germany will probably all be canceled.
That is why we decided to start quarantine sessions with some musician friends under the leadership of Christiaan van Hemert.
Each of us remains in quarantine at home.

The first video with my participation is this amazing " Soledad ", a beautiful composition by Astor Piazzolla.

  • Christiaan van Hemert, bandoneon, electric guitar & technique
  • Derk Lottman violin
  • Margreet Markerink piano
  • Joel Locher double bass

Enjoy it. More videos will follow.