Bandoneonist · Performer · Arranger · Musical director
GilbertoPereyra
From Buenos Aires to Paris, carrying the bandoneon beyond the borders of tango.
ScrollThe artist
The bandoneon as a language
An Argentine musician shaped by the tradition of Buenos Aires, Gilberto Pereyra belongs to the generation that kept the soul of tango intact while opening it to new artistic territory.
His work brings together the rigour of Argentine tango, the freedom of Tango Nuevo, classical music, the lyric voice and contemporary composition. On stage as in the studio, his bandoneon becomes by turns a voice, a pulse, a breath and a dramatic force.
Portraits
The face and the instrument
The bandoneon is not a souvenir of tango. It is a living voice: it breathes, it attacks, and it falls silent with the player who carries it.
On stage
Buenos Aires, then Paris
Gilberto Pereyra played the great tango halls of Buenos Aires, alongside Antonio Agri, Horacio Salgán, Néstor Marconi, Fernando Suárez Paz and Susana Rinaldi.
In 1991 he settled in Paris and joined Les Trottoirs de Buenos Aires as conductor and arranger. He has since played across Europe, the Americas and Asia — from the Théâtre du Châtelet to the Salle Pleyel, from the Opéra Comique to Covent Garden.
Contact
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Solo, as a duo with piano, as a trio with voice, or as guest soloist with an orchestra.