¡TANGO! Music of Astor Piazzolla for saxophone, cello and piano

We are very pleased to be touring with a program of music by Astor Piazzolla arranged for saxophone, cello, and piano in celebration of the 100th aniversary of his birth. For this tour the Helton-Thomas Duo will be joined by Argentinian pianist Mariano Manzanelli to present a rich array of music drawn from Piazzolla's nuevo tango compositions.

Saxophonist Jonathan Helton is an active solo recitalist and chamber musician appearing in concerts worldwide, including Chicago, Montreal, Vancouver, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Santiago, London, Paris, Taipei, Washington, DC, and New York. He has been featured on programs of the North American Saxophone Alliance, the World Saxophone Congress, the College Music Society, Wisconsin Composers' Alliance, Chicago Consortium of Composers, and the New Music Chicago Festival. His performances have been heard on North Carolina Public Radio, on WFMT in Chicago, and in national and international radio syndication. He is featured on compact discs from Centaur, Navona, Elf, Innova, Mark Records, and Music from Northwestern. From 1992 to 1999 Dr. Helton served on the faculty at Northwestern University. He is currently on the faculty of the School of Music of the University of Florida where he teaches saxophone and chamber music. Jonathan Helton is a Selmer Artist/Clinician, and a past President of the North American Saxophone Alliance. 

Cellist Steven Thomas was appointed to the University of Florida's School of Music in 2007, following a 13-year tenure at the Hartt School, where he had chaired both the String and Chamber Music departments. A top prize-winner in the Villa-Lobos (Rio) and Bach (Washington) International Cello Competitions, as well as the Hudson Valley and Charleston Competitions, Dr. Thomas has appeared as soloist with orchestras in North and South America and throughout Europe. As a member of the Cantilena Piano Quartet, he toured and performed in most of the major concert halls of Europe and the U.S. He has performed as recitalist and chamber musician at festivals such as Windsor (England), Gstaad (Switzerland), the Israel Festival (Jerusalem), Prague, Tivoli (Denmark), Itu and Fortaleza (Brazil). As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with such renowned artists as Yehudi Menuhin, Erick Friedman, Donald MacInnes,  Jesse Levine, Joseph Robinson, David Shifrin, Peter Frankl, Boris Berman and the Miami String Quartet. 

Pianist Mariano Manzanelli is a highly-acclaimed award-winning Argentinian pianist. As a soloist, concert artist, and chamber musician, he has performed in the most important theaters in Argentina, as well as in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, the United States, Switzerland and Italy. He has taken classes with great international figures, such as Alan Weiss, Jura Margulis, Julian Martin, Daniel Rivera, Carmen Piazzini, Henri Sigffridson, among others. In chamber music he perfected at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón under the guidance of Mtro. Pierre Blanchard and as an orchestral pianist in the “José de San Martin National Youth Symphony,” an organization directed by Mario Benzecry. He is currently on the faculty in the Department of Musical and Sound Arts "Carlos López Buchardo" of the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires and is a Pianist and Deputy Director of the Chamber Choir of the Argentina National Ministry of Education.

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