Vibratanghissimo: ASTOR Tango meets Jazz - Music by Astor Piazzolla and Oli Bott BTR04-06 Juan Lucas Aisemberg: Viola Oli Bott: vibraphone Tuyêt Pham: Piano Arnulf Ballhorn: Doublebass [INFO] The original and fascinating set-up (viola, vibraphone, doublebass and piano) and their arrangements influenced by jazz and improvisation makes Vibratanghissimo into an exciting and original sound experience. The argentine roots of violist Juan Lucas Aisemberg, the creativity of Oli Bott on vibraphone, the virtuosity of Arnulf Ballhorn on doublebass and the sensitive charm of pianist Tuyêt Pham round up the unique physiognomy of the ensemble. Juan Lucas Aisemberg was born in 1967 into an argentine family of musicians and grew up in Italy. He studied in Rome with Lina Pettinelli, in Gstaad with Alberto Lysy, in Berlin with Bruno Giuranna as well as Robert Jeremias and in Cologne with the Amadeus Quartet. Since 1993 he has been working as a violist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, plays regularly in several chamber music ensembles and is the co-founder of 'NoviTango', a group performing mainly tango and argentine music. He has worked with artists such as Richard Galliano, Maximiliano Guerra and Gustavo Beytelmann, performed world-wide and taken part in many CD-recordings in Germany and abroad. Oli Bott studied vibraphone and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston with teachers such as Gary Burton and Bob Brookmeyer and graduated summa cum laude. Since then he has been working as a freelance vibraphonist and composer in Berlin. He has received several scholarships from the city of Berlin and composition commissions for his own jazz orchestra. Many of his concerts throughout Europe have been recorded for TV and radio. He has received prizes at various international competitions such as NDR-Musicprize for bigband-conductors, 1st prize Improvisation-Competition Leipzig, Europ Jazz Contest and Wayne Shorter Award, USA. www.olibott.com Arnulf Ballhorn studied doublebass from 1991 until 2000 with Prof. Zepperitz at the HdK Berlin and took private lessons from Miroslav Vitous, Renaud Garcia-Fons and Gary Willis. He works as a bassist in several orchestras and has become known as an interpreter of contemporary music with leading chamber music ensembles such as KNM Berlin, Persius Ensemble and ensemble recherche. He has given solo performances at many festivals and has been a member of the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin since 2000. Tuyêt Pham was born in Paris of vietnamese parents. She studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Annie d'Arco and Germaine Mounier. Later her postgraduate studies at the HdK Berlin were completed under the tuition of Klaus Hellwig, György Sebök, Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for song accompaniment. She performs mainly with ensembles and as a song accompanist in Germany and abroad. She has worked with musicians from the Deutsche Oper and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. [PRESS] "Vibratanghissimo catapults tango to new hights. Whether the music appears dreamy, complex or eruptive - it always embodies the gentle revolution of Tango." TIP, Berlin "A maniac with four sticks, who hits the bars so fast, that he is almost invisible which carries his audience away to extraordinary enthusiasm." Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin "Violist Juan Lucas Aisemberg sensitively interprets the music of my husband with romanticism and great inspiration". Laura Escalada Piazzolla