Ignacio Varchausky
Ignacio Varchausky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a double bass player, a music producer and the founder of the Orquesta El Ar...
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Ignacio Varchausky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a double
bass player, a music producer and the founder of the Orquesta El Arranque. He
is the creator as well as the artistic director of the OrquestaEscuela de Tango
Emilio Balcarce.
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Ignacio Varchausky is the founder ofTangoVia Buenos
Aires, a non-profit organization that has the aim of preserving, spreading and
building up the tango culture of the country all through the world.
Orquesta El Arranque
This is the group with which Ignacio Varchausky recorded the total of 6
albums and has played the role of double bass player in more than 150 cities
all through the United States, Europe, Japan and China. His most significant
performance is that cycle at the Lincoln Center in New York with Wynton
Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the concert that was held at
the Carre Theatre in Amsterdam, the concert at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo, that
which was held at the Bergen, Norway and at the Kennedy Center in Washington
D.C. as well as series of concert that was held in the year 2007 Hong Kong Arts
Festival.
OrquestaEscuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce
The documentary known as "Si sosbrujo: A Tango
Story" that saw Ignacio Varchausky
to be the lead man alongside maestro Emilio Balcarce, documented the birth of
this orchestra-school for young musicians that resides in Buenos Aires. With
his retirement, the leadership of the group was left for maestro Nestor Marconi
Music Production
Ignacio Varchausky has produced more than 20 albums with artist like Leopoldo
Federico, Gustavo Beytelmann, Julio Pane, Néstor Marconi, Bibi Ferreira, Lidia
Borda and Vale Tango.
Special productions
Ø Creating
and artistically producing the Gran OrquestaTangoVia Buenos Aires that formed
by the most crucial tango musicians of the new generation in the year 2003.
Ø "Tango
en Vivo" concert cycle, in together with radio "2x4" 92.7 FM in
Buenos Aires. Over 100 tango concerts were played, and each of them was
recorded in digital multi-track and publicized to a weekly audience of more
than 300,000 listeners. The cycle was afterwards published as a boxed set of
five CDs that was produced by EPSA Music.
Ø Production
of the documentary called "Si sosbrujo: A Tango Story" in the year
2005 by Caroline Neal, TangoVia Buenos Aires.
Ø Tango
Week, December 2004, at the Coliseo Theatre in Buenos Aires, with the
participation of musicians Gustavo Beytelmann, QuintetoVentarrón,
NicolásLedesma, Orquesta El Arranquewith Julio Pane, Mauricio Marcelli, Néstor
Marconi, RaúlGarelloand many others.
Ø Latin
Tinge, Orquesta El Arranque + LCJO with Wynton Marsalis, May 2001 (local and
artistic production).
Ø Buenos
Aires Tango Festival in Paris, Théâtre national de Chaillot, 2001, 2003, 2006,
2008.
Ø Buenos
Aires Tango Festival in Rome, Auditorium Parco dellaMusica, 2006, 2008.
Ø Tango
Festival in Genoa and Lille, European Culture Capitals of the year 2004.
Ø Musical
production of the show "Efecto Tango", Lyon, 2005.
Ø Madero
Tango, artistic direction, 2004–2006.
Record productions
Ø Cabulero,
Orquesta El Arranque, Epsa Music (2001)
Ø Clásicos,
Orquesta El Arranque, Epsa Music (2002)
Ø En
Vivo, Orquesta El Arranque, Epsa Music (2003)
Ø Nuevos,
Orquesta El Arranque, Epsa Music (2008)
Ø Tal
vezserásuvoz, Lidia Borda, distributed by Epsa Music (2002)
Ø De
contra punto, OrquestaEscuela de Tango, Epsa Music (2001)
Ø Bien
compadre, OrquestaEscuela de Tango, Epsa Music (2004)
Ø Gran
OrquestaTangoVia Buenos Aires, Gran OrquestaTangoVia Buenos Aires, Epsa Music
(2003)
Ø Tango
en Vivo, AA.VV, boxed set of 5 CDs, Epsa Music (2003)
Ø Sigamos!,
Gustavo Beytelmann, Epsa Music (2004)
Ø Bardi,
Vale Tango, Epsa Music (2005)
Ø Tango,
Bibi Ferreira y Miguel Proeça, BiscoitoFino (Brazil, 2006)
Ø Cadavezque
me recuerdes, SayacaOhsawa, Epsa Music (Japan, 2007)
Ø Instantáneas,
Julio Pane, Epsa Music, ColecciónTangoVia Buenos Aires (2007)
Ø Tiempoesperado,
Néstor Marconi, Epsa Music, ColecciónTangoVia Buenos Aires (2008)
Ø Mifueyequerido,
Leopoldo Federico, Epsa Music, ColecciónTangoVia Buenos Aires (2008) – Winner
of the 2009 Latin Grammy Award
Ø Tren,
Diego Schissidoblecuarteto, Epsa Music (2008)
Ø Tangos
cantados, Tangos instrumentales, Tangos bailables, boxed set of 3 CDs published
with the Italian weekly L'Espresso, production and artistic direction (Italy,
2008)
Ø A
tiempo, NoeliaMoncada, Epsa Music (2008)
Awards and prizes
Ø 2009
Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album with My FueyeQuerido, Leopoldo Federico
Ø "Francisco
Canaro" Prize awarded by da SADAIC, 2007, Tango revelation of the last
decade, Orquesta El Arranque
Ø Diploma
of Merit, Konex, 2005, Best tango group of the last decade, Orquesta El
Arranque
Ø Gardel
Prize for the best album by a tango orchestra, 2004, "En Vivo",
Orquesta El Arranque
Ø Latin
Grammy Nomination for Best Tango Album 2004, "En Vivo", Orquesta El
Arranque
Ø Award
by SADAIC for the spreading of Argentinian music through the world, Gran
OrquestaTangoVia Buenos Aires, 2003
Ø Award
by the Head of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Tango Festival 2003
Ø Member
of the jury of the Clarín Prize and of the Gardel Prize since 2003
Ø 4
Nominations to the Gardel Prize – Cabulero (2001), Clásicos (2002), Tal
vesserásuvoz (2003), Maestros (2005)
Ø Clarín
Prize, Revelation of the year, El Arranque, 1998
Ø Honorary
Godfather of the sixth Tango Festival in Buenos Aires
Ø International
delegate at the 2003 and 2004 Arts Midwest Conference, invited by the Ohio Art Council.
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