PIANO

Emiliano Messiez is a Latin Grammy Nominee '23, and a composer and pianist originally from Argentina and based in New York City. With a very versatile and personal sound, he is the composer of The Guava Tree (2021), Casa Alfonsa (2022) and The City Dog and the Prairie Dog (2023), all musicals commissioned by the Creede Repertory Theater in Colorado, and he is the arranger and orchestrator of Ghost in the Machine and Mommy Moon, both musicals by Janine Robledo. He is the founder and director of the Tango Orchestra "Típica Messiez" and he is the pianist of the show Forever Tango. Emiliano is educated in classical music, jazz, tango, rock and Latin American rhythms, and he has performed all around the world in venues such as The Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and The Houston Opera Theater in Texas.

VIOLIN

Sergio R. Reyes Mendoza is a violinist, composer, arranger, and educator, residing in New York City for over two decades. He has performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Blue Note Jazz Club, amongst others. He has shared the stage with internationally renowned artists such as Frederica von Stade (soprano), Clive Lythgoe (pianist), Danny Rivera (song-writer, activist) and Argentine musicians who worked with tango master Astor Piazzolla, such as Pablo Ziegler (piano), Héctor Del Curto (bandoneon), Raúl Jaurena (bandoneon), and Daniel Binelli (bandoneon), amongst others. In 1998 and 2018 he was awarded 1st Prize in the Certamen Permanente Centroamericano ’15 de septiembre’ with compositions La Chamusca and A las poetas de este tiempo, respectively.

BANDONEON

Winner or the First Prize of the "Che Bandoneón International Competition" awarded by the Argentine Tango Society at the Stowe Music Tango Festival in Vermont, USA, Rodolfo Zanetti is a bandoneon player originally from Argentina. He has performed as soloist with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, the Embassy of Argentina and the Organization of American States and other notable venues. In New York he performed as soloist at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. In 2018 he participated as a bandoneon player in the album "Vigor Tanguero" by Pedro Giraudo, which has obtanied the Latin Grammy to the best Tango Album.