Andi-longa Featuring Avalos Solera Duo

Bach en Bandoneon: Tango Meets Classical

THE DUO WILL GIVE CONCERT & PLAY AT THE MILONGA

Message from the Organizer:

I have the pleasure to announce that Avalos Solera Duo will be at Andi-longa!

The milonga will kickoff with a Bach en Bandoneon: Tango Meets Classical concert. An experience not to be missed. Featuring selected works from Bach, tango, and original compositions.

After the concert join Boston’s passionate tangueres for a night of abrazos, jestful critiques of the DJ, and just a general party.

Let’s share an experience with spectacularly talented artists and dance the night away! 

The Avalos Solera duo is an ensemble that is always looking for new sounds and musical propositions. The duo emerged virtually over the pandemic, where they began to develop and conceive of their first album, Bach en Bandoneón. This concept became a reality in December 2021, when it was recorded over a weekend in the Iglesia de la Congregación Evangélica Alemana de Buenos Aires in Argentina. The album consists of their own arrangements of selected works from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Bk I and Bk II, and includes their own compositions in homage to Bach. 

They've completed two tours in North America, where they presented the album to a diverse audience. In February 2023, they completed their second tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina, playing in important venues such as the Auditorium of the National University of the Arts. They have just recently recorded their next album of personal arrangements of classic tangos and Argentine folk music with voice. The album is due to be released in the winter of 2024.

Heyni Solera, Bandoneonist / Composer / Ethnomusicologist / Producer

Praised for her “soulful bandoneón” (Washington Classical Review), Heyni Solera is a sought after bandoneonist in Washington, D.C. Heyni has enjoyed a career in the US and abroad performing in Argentina, Canada and Australia and collaborating with prominent tango artists such as Ramiro Boero, Julian Peralta, Pablo Jaurena, Santiago Segret, Pedro Giraudo and many more.

In 2019, Heyni was a member of the Argentine tango orchestra schools La Orquesta de Tango de la Una and the Conservatorio Superior de “Manuel de Falla”, where she had the opportunity to perform in the prestigious Centro Cultural Kirchner. Heyni is part of the cello/bandoneon duo, Arco & Aire, with cellist Maxfield Wollam-Fisher. Their arrangement of “La Bordona” won Best Latin Song for the 2022 Wammie awards, which can be found in their EP Overture. This past July, Arco & Aire recorded their first full album of new contemporary tango music, which will be released in 2023.

Heyni is also the other half of the Avalos-Solera Bandoneon Duo. In April of 2022, they released the album, Bach en Bandoneon, and this past summer presented the album on their first United States tour. Heyni is the bandoneonist of Las Almas, an ensemble which focuses on female tango musicians in a typically male dominated genre, and has performed several times at the San Francisco International Arts Festival.

As a scholar, Heyni received her Masters of Music in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has developed the lectures A GPS for Tango Listening: What Makes Tango a Tango? and Today’s Woman in Tango: Carving Out Spaces amongst others. These lectures have been extensively presented throughout the United States and Canada for public audiences and academics alike.

Past projects include playing in the orchestra of the highly praised IN Series production of Le Cabaret de Carmen at Source Theatre in Washington, D.C. and at Baltimore Theatre Project in Baltimore, Maryland. In April of 2022, Heyni had her Kennedy Center debut with the Latin-Grammy nominated PanAmerican Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the ensemble at the Argentine Embassy of Washington, DC. She also creates various content such as “Today’s Tango with Heyni”, a mini-series that features today’s contemporary tango musicians throughout the world, and “Discovering Troilo,” a mini-series that delves into the iconic style of Anibal Troilo’s tango orchestra.

Rodrigo Avalos, Bandoneonist /Composer 

Rodrigo Avalos is an Argentine composer, arranger, bandoneon and guitar player. He was born in Olavarría and started his musical studies at an early age. In 2017, he graduated from the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda as a guitar tango player. Since that year, he began studying composition with Gabriel Senanes.

Between 2016 and 2019, he was the musical director of the Orquesta Típica La Carmen, an orchestra of twelve musicians. This orchestra performed his arrangements and original compositions, and played in many theaters and milongas of Buenos Aires. He successfully completed two tours in several European countries.

Currently, he is working as a bandoneon professor at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires Tango Orchestra and was also a part of the Orquesta Escuela Emilio Balcarce. As a composer, he is writing music for various ensembles, instrumentations and film scores.