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Pablo Ziegler Quartet

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Saturday, December 06, 2014
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Duke Performances
Duke Performances 2014/2015 Season

Pablo Ziegler began his career as a pianist with Ástor Piazzolla, the world's foremost composer of tango music. In the four decades since that auspicious musical apprenticeship, Ziegler has further enriched Piazzolla's nuevo tango, infusing fresh melodic structures, jazz improvisation, and contrapuntal harmonies into music that originated in the clubs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Ziegler brings his superb quartet -- featuring piano, bandoneón, cello, and bass -- to the elegant confines of Baldwin. In Durham, Ziegler demonstrates the musical ease of a natural-born tanguero: "he is cool, understated, and makes everything look easy and natural ... just as a really suave tango dancer seems not to move with feet but on wheels, Ziegler skates the keyboard" (Los Angeles Times).