Multi-award winning pianist & composer Juan María Solare (Buenos Aires, 1966), an Argentine living in Germany, is one of those musicians that open scarcely travelled paths. The originality of his music stems from the confluence between post-Piazzollian tango and classical contemporary ("post-tonal") music. His singular style represents a synthesis of North and South, classical and popular, wit and melancholy, performance and composition. "Art music and light music are not irreconcilable extremes, but poles in a force field", says Solare about his "musical bilingualism".
He has given piano recitals in Buenos Aires and dozens of Argentinean cities, plus Berlin, Hamburg, Istanbul, Finland, Denmark, Amsterdam, Madrid, Graz, Geneva, Seville, Texas, London... The audience at his concerts is fascinated by his warmth and quality.
His musical style is rooted both in the tango argentino and in contemporary classical music (aka experimental or post-tonal). His influences range from Astor Piazzolla to Karlheinz Stockhausen, from Queen to Cage, from Luis Alberto Spinetta to computer music.
With 6 albums on iTunes and Spotify, more than 400 concerts given, over 400 compositions written and over 12 composition awards (in Austria, Germany, Argentina, USA, UK, Spain), his expertise in sound and music is well above average.
Juan María Solare conducts the Orquesta no Típica at the university of Bremen (Germany). At the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen he teaches Composition and Arrangements. As a pianist with over 400 concerts on his account, he has participated at the World Tango Summit on three occasions. He is the editor of four tango albums for the publishing house Ricordi Munich. Fourteen CDs by different performers include at least one piece by Juan María Solare.
- "A full-blooded musician." (Hans-Joachim Brandt, Wümme Zeitung, Lilienthal)
- "A rare spirit" (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
- "Music is his mother tongue" (Donata Holz, Wümme Zeitung, Lilienthal)
- "Juan Maria Solare gives tango a new face." (Christian Emigholz, Weser Kurier (Bremen)
http://www.juanmariasolare.com
