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Elisabeth Dubé (cello)
Christophe Papadimitriou (double-bass)
Mélanie Vaugeois (violon)
Victor Simon is the founder and artistic director of the Ensemble Montreal Tango. Highly skilled pianist, composer and arranger, Victor Simon lives with the sound of Argentinian musics since his chilhood. Native of Santiago del Estero, the city of Argentinian city of musical folklore, he continues themusical tradition forged by the family of his father: Los Hermanos Simon. He completed his mastering of piano through studies in composition at the University of Cordoba.
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Today he writes diverse compositions for the Ensemble Montreal Tango and creates all arrangements of the group repertory.
He worked with other artists, such as Soraya Benitez, a Venezuelan singer, whose three albums Mujer he arranged(settled), Long live (nominé in the Official reception of the ADISQ on 2003) and Between Lineas (2005 ).
Pianist with sensibility, Victor received several awards such as the best pianist for solo interpretation at the Festival of Boenos Aires in 1982.
His passion for Argentine music also expressed through his collaboration with company such as Forever Tango and the National Troop of Argentine Folklore.
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Pablo Seib (double-bass)
Amy Zanrosso (piano)
Jonathan Goldman (accordion)
Chantal Bergeron (violin)
Pablo Bonacina (guitar)
A new quintet based in Montreal, made up of young musicians from Argentina as well as from all over Canada, devoted to the rhythms of tango nuevo and especially to the uncontested master of the genre, Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992).
Combining some classic scores of Piazzolla with new arrangements of his works and original compositions, as well as those of other composers such as Rodolpho Mederos and Gustavo Beytelmann, the young musicians who make up the Sweatshop Tango Ensemble give a fresh urban take on this melancholy music.
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Pulsating rhythms, wistful violin, shimmering accordion lines, dark, expressive piano solos, double-bass and guitar transformed into percussion instruments: ear-cinema, mind-tango.
The name 'Sweatshop Tango Ensemble' refers to the place the band practices, and in fact, where the band first got started: a former Clothing manufacture, or sweatshop, in Montreal's textile district, on St. Laurent boulevard, an area populated by immigrants (predominately Jewish, Italian and Portuguese) since the end of the 19th century. Amy, our pianist, plays on a piano that was hoisted up into the space by hand through an old cargo-elevator shaft, and is placed where huge sewing machines used to sit, the welts they left in the floor still visible. The tango was also born in the immigrant areas of another great city, Buenos Aires, by working-class musicans from among other places Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia and Poland. In our "sweatshop" we pay homage to them.
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Trio de guitares d'Osvaldo Rabunal
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Jacques Joubert, Osvaldo Rabunal et Pascal Saint-Gelais
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Guitarist and music teacher formed at Conservatorio Nacional of Música of Boenos Aires ( Argentina), he teaches Tango guitar at Tango Libre since 2004. Initially, the Osvaldo Rabunal's Guitar Trio, was formed with the guitarist Jean Desrochers and the double bassist Pablo Seib. Now, this trio is formed by Jacques Joubert, Pascal Saint-Gelais and Mr Rabunal himself.
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 Joaquim Nadal, Pablo Seib, Jose Maria Gianelli, Osvaldo Rabunal
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Five musicians, four generations, all native of Argentina and reunited in Montreal by the tango music. For several years, sometimes in trio, sometimes as a cuarteto, they interpret the great classicals of tango music. For the 2006 edition on the festival, our guest bandenonist Miguel Angel Varvello will be performing with them.
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Sexteto Tango Libre under the direction of Miguel Angel Varvello - Guest bandoneonist
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Miguel Angelo Varvello was born in 1943 in Cañada de Gomez, in Argentina. He studied bandoneon with Tito Aparicio and Jose Bustamante and harmony, counterpoint and composition with Titti Rossi.
As a bandoneon soloist he has recorded the Three Part Invention of J.S. Bach as well as his own transcriptions of works of Claude Debussy.
He also performed with the typical tango orchestras of José Basso, Hector Varela, Osvaldo Berlingieri, Osvaldo Piro andt Carlos Lazari. Together with
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Lisandor Androver he founded the nonette Porteño Ensemble and recorded the album Despertar en Buenos Aires.
In 1984, he founded the Ensemble Trio with which he performed extensively in the most important tango venues in Buenos Aires such as the Michelangelo, Caño 14 and La Ciudad.
In 1987, he represented his country at the international music festival in Johannesburg. On his return, he recorded the album Momentos Inestables with the Ensemble Trio. Varvello joined forces with the guitarist Jorge Labanca in 1989 to record the album Devenir. Recently, he also recorded Sin Red.
Varvello is active as a bandoneonist, arranger and composer. He is also a member of the orchestra accompanying the show Forever Tango, which has toured world-wide, including performances in Europe, Japan and the USA.
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