Charango and piano
Damián Verdún and Pablo Juárez present their own works and emblematic pieces of South American music.
Through a creative dialogue, They fuse the richness of composition with the freedom of improvisation, connecting tradition and modernity.
About Damián Verdún
Damián Verdún is charanguista, compositor y docente, Born in Rosario, Argentina. He has published five study albums as a soloist and with other projects. His career includes a hundred participations in recordings by national and international folklore artists, tango, song, rock y pop.
He is the creator of El Charangazo, Collective workshop and assembly with strong pedagogical imprint. In 2022 published the book Charango: New arrangements, edited with support from the National Fund of Arts, which includes its version of "Libertángo" for the Argentine Orchestra of Charangos, With hundreds of thousands of reproductions on digital platforms.
His "Ayni" and "Urban" compositions have been awarded by the Argentine Music Council (CAM–IMICICIS), And his work "Ju and the butterflies" was included in the International Compilation Bar Buenos Aires, edited in Japan.
He has shared stage and recordings with artists like Quique Sinesi, Ramón Ayala, Ricardo Vilca, Luna Monti, Liliana Felipe, Benjamin Biolay (France), Hikaru Iwakawa (Japan) and the Argentine Charangos Orchestra.
He is a charango professor at the pack (Buenos Aires), The Higher Institute of Music "Carlos Guastavino" (Rosario) And the Martha Argerich scholarships of the Ministry of Culture.
About Pablo Juárez
Pablo Juárez is an Argentine pianist and composer, Born in Rosario, With more than two decades of experience. His musical proposal nourishes the jazz, Tango and traditional music from South America, From the Paraná River to the Río de la Plata, creating a personal language that fuses these roots with a contemporary look.
Has edited four albums as a soloist, Three of them for the Argentine Seal Club of the album - two recognized as “Disco del Monte” - and a piano album only released in Japan, distinguished from the best of 2018 By Latina Japan magazine, which motivated a tour of six cities of that country in 2019.
In 2018 He was summoned to interpret his piano work only in the anteroom of the amaluna show of Cirque du Soleil. Has participated in more than 25 Discs with prominent artists like Silvio Rodríguez, Jorge Fandermole, Juan Falú, Rubén Goldin, entre otros, And he has collaborated on projects with Abel Pintos, Fabiana Cantilo, Marta Gómez, Teresa Parodi, Among many other figures.
He has also provided seminars on South American music and his link with jazz in universities and institutions such as UNR, UNL, UNO, Am (Argentina) y UTEC (Uruguay). Your album meetings (2021) He was distinguished as "Disco of the Month" and awarded as "Best Jazz album" by Rosario edited in 2022.