Astor Piazzolla - "Fracanapa" by Tatia Chikovani

TATIA CHIKOVANI:
Originally Georgian, Tatia Chikovani made her orchestral debut at age 7 after winning her first music competition in Tbilisi. She was a long-time soloist for the Z. Paliashvili State Opera and Ballet Orchestra and studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatory before coming to Norway in 2012. Since then she has completed Bachelor's and Master's in classical piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music. She often works as a guest pianist for NMH and teaches young talents. She has also made herself known among national and international musicians such as Liv Glaser, Wolfgang Plagge, Dino Imeri, Dino Mastroyiannis, and others. She has participated in several national and international festivals, competitions, and concerts and has a wide range of expressions to be experienced in her performances.

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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA:
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentinian tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of Tango music".

Piazzolla's nuevo tango was distinct from the traditional tango in its incorporation of elements of jazz, its use of extended harmonies and dissonance, its use of counterpoint, and its ventures into extended compositional forms. As Argentine psychoanalyst Carlos Kuri has pointed out, Piazzolla's fusion of tango with this wide range of other recognizable Western musical elements was so successful that it produced a new individual style transcending these influences.