The Story Of Tango: Music, Dance and Culture

Performance Lecturers:
Alejandro Sanchez Samper - Bandoneon
Claudio Garay - Guitar

Course Description: Join us for an exciting morning of music and dance as we explore the origins, development and styles of Argentine tango.

Biographical Information: Alejandro Sanchez-Samper is assistant director of Commercial Music, assistant professor of Music and faculty advisor to Hoot/Wisdom Recordings, L.L.C. at FAU. He received an M.M. in media writing and production from the University of Miami in 2003 and a B.A. in music from the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. He has studied bandoneon and tango performance with Leonardo Federico and David Alsina. He specializes in audio recording, film scoring and production.

Claudio Garay began playing the guitar at the early age of 10. He attended the University of Chile in his native town Santiago de Chile. He won an international scholarship in 1988 and moved to Sweden where he continued his studies in classical guitar at the University of Gothenburg. He received two master’s degrees in Sweden: an MFA in music with emphasis in Latin-American music and a MFA in music performance with emphasis in soloist European classical music. Claudio has been active in many countries in Europe as a freelance musician and has performed a wide variety of styles from renaissance to contemporary music. Television stations such as MTV Hungary and SVT Sweden have broadcast his performances on various occasions.