Fernando Marzan

Fernando Marzan (* 1967 ) is an Argentine tango pianist .

Life

Marzan began his musical education at the age of six. He studied choral conducting and classical piano in Argentina and the USA . In 1988 he conducted the orchestra at a performance of the musical High Society in Buenos Aires . Between 1987 and 1994 he appeared on various Argentinian television shows such as La Noche del Domingo , Alejandro Dolina and Hola Susana .

From 1994 to 2001 Marzan was the pianist of the production Forever Tango , with which he toured the USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, England, Portugal, Korea, Mexico and Argentina. 1994–1995 he recorded two CDs of the production in Los Angeles , a third and fourth followed in 2000. In 1999 he was musical director of the show Tango Vivo , which was performed in the USA and at the Maisonneuve Theater in Montreal . In the following years Marzan also directed tango shows: Tango Seducción (2002), Tango Buenos Aires (2003), Tango Emotion (2004) and Tango Dreams IV (2005).

In 2001 Marzan recorded a CD with Taro Hakase in Japan , and the following year he was the conductor of a CD recording for the singer Martín de León . In 2004, he performed more than a hundred times on the Tango Dreams show in Tokyo and in Forever Tango in Rome, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and Toronto. Marzán has been leading his own quartet since 1999 , with whom he recorded two CDs: Bendita Buenos Aires (2001) and Recuerdo (2003). In 2005, at the opening of the Hispanic Convention Center in Albuquerque, he performed Piazzolla's opera María de Buenos Aires with his quartet and members of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Javier Lorenzo Astor . In 2010 he participated in the CD recording of the musical Tango Buenos Aires by Emilio Kauderer . He also recorded some of his own compositions on the solo album Bendita Buenos Aires .

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• Allmusic - Fernando Marzan
• Fernando Marzan in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Web links

• Homepage of Fernando Marzan