Octavio Brunetti

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Octavio Brunetti (born May 12, 1975 in Rosario , Argentina , † August 29, 2014 in New York ) was an Argentine pianist , composer and arranger . He was best known for his recording Te amo tango with Raúl Jaurena , for which he won the 2007 Grammy Award for the best tango album.

Life

Brunetti began playing the piano in early childhood and was trained in classical piano. Before he finished his studies at the National Music Academy in Rosario, he performed in concerts and discovered his passion for tango, the music of his homeland. As a young artist, he performed in the famous Teatro Colón as well as the Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires and the Teatro del Libertador General San Martín in Córdoba , Argentina, and soon played with well-known tango musicians, including Alberto Castillo , Eladia Blazquez, Rubén Juárez , Domingo Federico, Rodolfo Mederos , Osvaldo Piro , Horacio Salgan-De Lio and Atilio Stampone . He has also performed as a solo pianist in tango shows and festivals and played classical music in a duo with his sister Laura.

In 1991 he founded the Tango Rosario Symphonic Orchestra and became a member of the Omar Torres Quintet, with which he made his first tango recording, Inquietudes . In 1997 he left the quintet and joined the Domingo Federico Tango Orchestra, with whom he toured Argentina and Europe and recorded his second CD, Orquesta Juvenil de Tango de la UNR . Shortly thereafter, Brunetti founded his first own quintet, with which he played original arrangements and compositions of traditional and modern tango. In 2002 Brunetti became conductor of the Orchestra for Folk Music of the Province of Cordoba in Cordoba.

After an extensive tour of Europe, Brunetti moved to the USA in 2004 to study at Berklee College of Music . During this time he won two first prizes at the New York City International Tango Competition: Best Solo Pianist and Best Duo (with saxophonist Bernardo Monk). In 2005 he moved to New York and met the bandoneon player Raúl Jaurena, with whom he recorded the CD Te amo tango , which won the 2007 Grammy Award for best tango album. He also played with bandoneon masters Daniel Binelli, Hector Del Curto and Tito Castro. In 2005 he founded the Octavio Brunetti Quintet, in 2008 the Urban Tango Trio with Machiko Ozawa (violin) and Pedro Giraudo (bass) and in 2012 the Trio Los Varones del Tango with Sergio Reyes (violin) and Pedro Giraudo (bass).

Brunetti has played with many masters of the concert, including the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma , Cuban jazz saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, and violinist Cho-Liang Lin . He has played at concert venues such as Symphony Space, Blue Note , Rose Theater (Jazz at Lincoln Center ) in New York and Kennedy Center ( Washington, DC ) and is at numerous music festivals in the USA, Europe, Asia and South America Belleayre Music Festival ( Catskill Mountains , NY ), Ojai Music Festival ( Ojai , CA ), La Jolla Music Fest ( La Jolla , San Diego , CA), New York Chamber Music Festival, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan ( Japan ), and Al Bustan Festival ( Lebanon ) occurred.

In September 2013, his arrangement of the suite La serie del Ángel by Astor Piazzolla was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered at the Philharmonic's Opening Gala under the direction of Alan Gilbert and played by Yo-Yo Ma (recorded on the CD Appassionato by Sony BMG Classical).

Brunetti's other best-known recordings include Grammy Award winner Te amo tango with Raúl Jaurena (bandoneon), Urban Tango Trio with Machiko Ozawa (violin) and Pedro Giraudo (bass) and the original soundtrack recordings for the films Tetro ( Deutsche Grammophon ) and Twixt by Francis Ford Coppola , both composed by the Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov .

In July 2014, Brunetti gave a concert with the Octavio Brunetti Tango Orchestra at the Midsummer Night Swing Festival in Lincoln Center in New York.

On August 3, 2014, Octavio Brunetti was admitted to the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York for a bacteriological infectious disease . In view of the enormous hospital costs, his family appealed for donations. Over $ 33,000 was donated in 16 days. The doctors did not find the source of the disease, however, and Brunetti died of the infection.

Recordings

  • Inquietudes with the Omar Torres Quintet and Octet (Europhone, 1996)
  • Orquesta Juvenil de Tango de la UNR with Domingo Federico (EMR, 1997)
  • Tierra y Asfalto (Duo with the guitarist Román Carballo, 2003)
  • Te amo tango with bandoneonist Raúl Jaurena (Soundbrush Records, 2006)
  • Soledad by Astor Piazzolla with cellist Yo-Yo Ma ( Sony Classical , 2007)
  • Tetro by Osvaldo Golijov (soundtrack to the film by Francis Ford Coppola , Deutsche Grammophon , 2009)
  • Tango Conversations with guitarist Adam Tully (2009)
  • Oscar e Familia with saxophonist Oscar Feldman a. a. ( Sunnyside Records , 2010)
  • El Violín Latino with the violinist Gregor Hübner (Peregrina Music, 2010, EAN 4012116506020)
  • Tango & Obsession with violinist Nick Danielson ( CD Baby , 2010)
  • Urban Tango Trio with violinist Machiko Ozawa and bassist Pedro Giraudo (Cantaloupe Music, 2010)
  • Twixt by Osvaldo Golijov (soundtrack to the film by Francis Ford Coppola, 2011)
  • Adiós Nonino with violinist Elmira Darvarova (Delphinum Records, 2011)
  • Marioneta with singer Noelia Moncada (MTT, 2011)
  • Tango Distinto by Astor Piazzolla with trombonist Achilles Liarmakopoulos ( Naxos Records , 2011)
  • Masters of Bandoneon with Leonardo Suarez Paz's Cuartetango String Quartet (Azica, 2012)
  • Hard Tango with the JP Jofre Quintet feat. Pablo Aslan, Nick Danielson, Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin (Round Star Entertainment, 2012)

Awards

  • 2004: Best Solo Pianist in the New York City International Tango Competition
  • 2004: Best Duo at the New York City International Tango Competition (with saxophonist Bernardo Monk)
  • 2007: Grammy Award : Best Tango Album (Te amo tango)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b My biography. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Octavio Brunetti's website. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.octaviobrunetti.us
  2. ↑ Urban Tango Trio. In: Website of the Urban Tango Trio (English).
  3. ↑ a b Octavio Brunetti. In: GoFundMe Personal Fundraising Website.
  4. ^ Héctor Palacio: Octavio Brunetti, vida, tango y arte; ahora, a la naturaleza eterna. In: SDPnoticias.com (Mexican news portal). September 1, 2014 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Brunetti, Octavio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 2014
Place of death new York