PABLO ZIEGLER was born in Buenos Aires

From left to right: Perez Celis, Pablo Ziegler and Gil Evans

Event: Shakespeare NY music festival

PABLO ZIEGLER was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 2nd 1944.

He studied at Buenos Aires Music Conservatory where he graduated as Piano Professor. He continued his studies with Adrian Moreno and Galia Schaljman. He studied composition with professors as Gerardo Gandini and Francisco Kröpflt.

When he was 14 years old, he began to play with different jazz groups and at the same time until he was 18 played piano solo concerts.

Then he created the PABLO ZIEGLER TERCETO which was dedicated in playing classical music with jazz arrangements done by himself and, at the same time he wrote music such as: POLVO DE ESTRELLAS (Musical), LA NOCHE DE LOS GRANDES (TV); ADIOS ROBERTO and TACOS ALTOS (cinema), etc.

In 1978 he joined Master ASTOR PIAZZOLLA´s quintet and started his tournees through Europe, U.S.A., Japan, etc. playing with worldwide known artists such as the italian singer Milva and the american Gary Burton.

In 1989 after a heart disease, Master Astor Piazzolla decided to end his famous Quintet.

Since then ZIEGLER started to rehearse with his "CUARTETO PARA EL NUEVO TANGO". His debut was on May 31st, 1990 with an enormous success among public and press.

At the end of that year he recorded "LA CONEXIÓN PORTEÑA", his first production as composer of New Tango for Sony Music label. The next year he is invited to record Piazzolla´s works with the Buenos Aires PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by Pedro Ignacio Calderón. Afterwards they held performances at Colon theatre, in Argentina, EXPO-SEVILLA 92 in Spain etc. At the end of 1991 he is invited by Ettore Stratta, american conductor, to play as a soloist for an album called "Symphonic Tango", produced by Warner Teldec, U.S.A., where he also recorded a composition of his own: "MILONGA EN EL VIENTO" with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London.

In 1992 he is invited by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival to play some concerts

in New Mexico (U.S.A.) Then he performs in New Orleans where the Mayor honored him with the title of: NEW ORLEANS CITIZEN.

When he arrived in Bs.As. the ASOCIACIÓN DE CRÍTICOS DE TEATRO E INVESTIGADORES TEATRALES gave him the National Prize "ARLEQUIN 92" to the best original music for theatre for the play of Harold Pinter:"Traición"

At the beginning of 1993 he was invited by the Argentine Foreign Office to render an homage to Piazzolla in the Villalobos National Auditorium in Brasilia in Brazil, where he went with his Cuarteto Nuevo Tango and Nestor Marconi (bandoneon player) as a guest. In the same year he was invited by La Paz Mayor Office and played at the Central Bank Theatre.

(Bolivia) Later he returns with his quartet to U.S.A. playing two sessions at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, then in the Open Area Festival (Salt Lake City) in Utah, at Minneapolis Walker Art Center (Minnesota) and records at Saint Paul Radio, a one hour audition that was emitted by 200 american radios. The name of the program was "Saint Paul, Sunday Morning" At the end of 1993, he did his first European Tour performing in Frankfurt, Kalsrhue (Germany), Athens in Greece, The Instituto A´lla Illa (Rome), La Fontana Theatre (Milan) in Italy; and in the United Kingdom at Saint Martin in the Field Cathedral (London).

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