Armando de la Vega

In 1999 he joined the quintet of renown pianist and composer Pablo Zielger, touring in cities such as San Pablo, Rio de Janeiro, Friburgo, Belo Horizonte (Brasil), Haifa, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem (Israel), Festival de jazz de La Pataia (Uruguay) – with Paquito de Rivera and Brenda Feliciano as special guests -, as well as the Buenos Aires Tango Festival from 1999 to 2004; in the Festival of the Siete Lagos in the city of Bariloche.

He forms part of several ensembles with Pablo Ziegler, including the Nuevo Ensamble Porteño which performed the operita “María de Buenos Aires” by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, in the cities of Bologna and Ravenna (Italy) in 2002, in addition to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Hungary in 2004.

He has also formed part of the Rodolfo Mederos' quintet since 1984, with important performances around the world, including the International Festival Cervantino 1989, 1992, 1999, 2004 (Mexico), the Symphony Orchestra of San Pablo (Brasil), Expo-Sevilla 1992, International GREC Festival 2002 (Spain) with Joan Manuel Serrat as special guest, Symphony Orchestra of Caracas (Venezuela), Tango Festival in Zurich (Switzerland), the Cumbre de las Américas 2002 (Canada), and Symphony Orchestra of S.O.D.R.E (Uruguay).

In 2002 he was invited to perform as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Oviedo in Spain, interpreting “Concierto de Liega” by Léo Brouwer, and “Doble Concierto para Bandoneón, Guitarra y Orquesta”, and “Concierto de Nácar” by Astor Piazzolla.

He was the guitarist for the album “Más Tango” by vocalist Adriana Varela.

In 2010 he performed in the show “Del amor” alongside the poet Juan Gelman and the Rodolfo Mederos Trío at the Auditori of Barcelona. With the same ensemble he was selected to perform at the opening of the Buchmesse Gala at the Alte Oper of Frankfurt, Germany, along with the maestro Daniel Baremboin.

In 2012 he participated in the album “Pa que trabaje el grandote” with double bass player Sergio Rivas, a work that explores the history of the double bass in the music of tango.

He has performed and worked with artists such as Nicolás Ledesma, Saúl Cosentino, Pablo Mainetti, Osvaldo Piro, Liliana Herrero, Mercedes Sosa, Antonio Agri, César Camargo Mariano, Romero Lubambo, Joan Manuel Serrat, Martirio, Paquito de Rivera, among others.

He has taught numerous workshops and seminars on tango guitar in countries such as Switzerland, Germany, Thailand, Colombia, Brasil, Suriname, Guyana, as well as in Argentina.

資料來源：Piazzolla Quintet ( Website )