QuinTango

QuinTango, a touring quintet of two violins, cello, bass and piano, brings a century’s worth of tango repertoire to the concert stage with sizzling musicality and captivating narrative style. Winner of two consecutive WAMMIES, QuinTango is the only tango music group to have given a Command Performance at The White House. QuinTango has been heard on NPR’s Morning Edition, CNN, and network television in both the USA and Costa Rica.

When QuinTango made their debut at Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Spoleto critic Robert Jones wrote exuberantly that “....their concerts packed the place and sent the customers home tango crazy. ” This year’s review read, “The real news about this splendid group is that they’re getting better all the time.” QuinTango has also performed at both the 9th and 12th International Music Festivals in Costa Rica. Recent festival performances in this country include the Kennedy Center Open House Festival, Wolf Trap’s Theatre-in-the-Woods Children’s Festival and the Virginia Highlands Festival. QuinTango made its European debut in 2002 with five performances in Normandy, France.

Last year the group joined Maestro Donald Portnoy and the Augusta Symphony as soloists in their Valentine Pops at the Bell concert. They were featured soloists for the Ars Nova Orchestra’s Gala Fundraiser under the baton of Lynn Luce at Miniaci Hall in Davies, FL. In 2001, QuinTango joined Maestro David Stahl and the Charleston Symphony as soloists for the opening concert of their pops season. Extending their tango reach to Kansas, the group will make three appearances in 2004 with the Wichita Symphony.

With sizzling energy and contagious passion, QuinTango gave sixty concerts last year in venues ranging from an elementary school in eastern North Carolina to the 1000-seat 19th century Teatro Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica. It is this devotion to bringing the music of tango to new audiences that prompted the Washington Post to proclaim QuinTango “one of Washington’s musical treasures.”

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6/20/08: QuinTango

Learn to tango with music by the talented chamber quintet that is inspired by the classic Argentine tango orchestra of violins, bandoneons, bass, and piano. Lessons offered from 5:30-6. Part of the Summer Social Dance Parties, a Performance Plus™ series that features dance lessons followed by dancing to music by great bands.

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4/25/03: QuinTango with Tino Bastidas and Susan Reynolds

QuinTango, the only tango music group to give a Command Performance at the White House, is joined by Tino Bastidas and Susan Reynolds, for a thrilling evening of tango music and dance.

QuinTango with Tino Bastidas and Susan Reynolds

QuinTango, the only tango music group to give a Command Performance at the White House, is joined by Tino Bastidas and Susan Reynolds, for a thrilling evening of tango music and dance.

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