with Ivan Terrazas and SaraGrdan Friday, September 28, 2012
Feel as if you were ina beautiful Buenos Aires milonga.with amazing lights,a great sound system and much more
6:00 pm to 6:45 pm Intro to tango: Learn the basics Cost $ 15
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Edge of axis and off axis boleos, shaping the moment of the follower's free leg
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Cost $ 20 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Building your tango story from the the alluring figures to the interesting finale Cost $ 20
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Two workshops + milonga $ 40Milonga cover $ 20 includes one complementary workshop.
Venue: 431 Raritan Avenue, 2nd Floor, Highland Park, NJ 08904
Live Music by the Candombe Jazz Project: Bio:
Florencia, composer, performer (multi woodwind player, singer), and session musician, leads bands that range from a duo of guitar and saxophone to a 20-piece Big Band.
Her Big Band has been together since 2007; playing regularly in Boston until 2011, when it was selected one of the best 5 jazz bands in Boston right before moving to New York, where she established a new Big Band composed by the finest jazz musicians of the city.
Parallel to her large ensembles (Big Band and 11 Piece Band), she leads a Candombe Project, which includes horns, percussion, singing and a lot of beautiful tunes from Uruguay and Argentina. This project performs regularly in New York and has been part of a number of jazz and Latin music festivals.
Born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, her music career there encompassed a lot of different styles in a variety of groups (jazz, tango, bossa nova, rock, pop, funk, candombe, etc.).
She studied classical saxophone performance in Uruguay and as a classical musician was selected in 2003 as first saxophone of the National Symphonic Orchestra. In 2004 she moved to Boston, where she graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music with a dual Bachelor Degree in Jazz Composition and Performance. After graduating from Berklee College of Music she pursued her Master’s Degree in Jazz Composition at New England Conservatory, from where she also graduated with honors.
Florencia has studied with George Garzone, Joe Lovano, Jerry Bergonzy, Charlie Banacos, Hall Crook, Michael Gandolfi, Ken Schaphorst, Frank Calberg, Ed Tomassi, Ken Pullig and Greg Hopkins among others.
Currently she is also working as a music educator, teaching Music Theory, Ear Training, Jazz Ensemble and Woodwinds in various New York City music schools and conservatoires.
