Octavio Brunetti, piano
	Octavio Brunetti was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1975. He started his musical studies at the Municipal Music School in Rosario and graduated from both The National School of Music and the Pedagogical Institute of  Music, preparing him to become a piano teacher. He also studied piano and chamber music in Buenos Aires with Alicia Belleville. In 2004, he won the New York City International Tango Competition Award for Best Solo Pianist and Best Duo (Brunetti – Monk).   From 2001 – 200, he was the pianist and conductor of the Provincial Orchestra of Popular Music in Cordoba, Argentina. In 2003, when the famous bandoneón player, Osvaldo Piro, became the conductor, Octavio remained as the assistant conductor and principal arranger.  He has recorded tangos, among which the most notable are “Inquietudes” (Omar Torres Quintet), “Saludos” (Domingo Federico’s Orchestra), and “Tierra y Asfalto” (Brunetti – Carballo). In 2000, he was the pianist with the World Tango Orchestra, conducted by Rodolfo Mederos. He has played at such notable venues, such as the Teatro Colon (Mozarteum Series 1995), Teatro San Martin in Cordoba, “El Circulo” theater in Rosario, Auditorio Astengo in Rosario, Lincoln Center in New York City, at the Tango and Malambo Festival in Santa Barbara,California, the Granada Festival in Spain, the World Music Festival in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Boston Tango Festival.  He has toured in Germany, Holland, Switzerland.

Daniel Ruggiero, bandoneon
	Daniel Ruggiero was born in Buenos Aires into a home filled with tango music. His father, Osvaldo, was a bandoneón player, arranger, and composer of significance in Argentina, playing with famed tango musician and band leader, Osvaldo Pugliese and the Tango Sextet.  His father’s compositions are still popular today and are performed and recorded by a variety of tango groups throughout the world.  Ruggiero began his music studies on guitar at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires.  He was only 15 years old when his father died and he rediscovered the bandoneón.  He took his father’s Double A bandoneón, a beautiful deep brown instrument encrusted with mother of pearl, and he began to study with the best tango maestros:  Nestor Marconi, Rodolfo Mederos, Julio Pane, and Walter Castro, among others.  He started his own tango band, participating in international festivals, and performing through Europe, Asia and South America.  Now more than 15 years later, Ruggiero carries on the family tradition, a talented young bandoneón player, performing, arranging, and composing tangos. He has shared the stage with many well-known tango performers such as Guillermo Fernandez, Raul Lavie, Amelita Baltar, Maria Grania, and Alberto Podesta.   In 2004, with his contemporary music trio, Quasimodo, Ruggiero recorded his first CD, followed by a European tour, during which he recorded his second CD with a Dutch string quartet.  He has returned to perform in Amsterdam, Paris, and Zurich.  He currently resides in Buenos Aires where he works as a professional musician, and with his own unique tango compositions he is reviving the tango, reaching new audiences, and sealing his destiny as one of Argentina’s most talented tango musicians.

Raul Jaurena, bandoneon
	Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Mr. Jaurena studied bandoneon with his father from a very early age, performing with a children’s tango orchestra at the age of eight.  When only 15 years old, he became a member of the popular Donato Raciatti Orchestra of Uruguay.  He graduated with honors from the National Conservatory of Uruguay, where he composed his own work for bandoneon for the Symphony of Montevideo.  Mr. Jaurena has accompanied some of tango’s most prominent singers, notably Roberto Goyeneche, Edmundo Rivero, Agustin Irusta, among others.  He spent many years performing throughout Latin America, specifically in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico.  In Brazil, he recorded for RCA Victor, and in Mexico he performed for Televisa. In Venezuela, he performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and presented his own work, Motivos de Tango, with the National Philharmonic of Venezuela.  In Brazil and France he recorded for films.  In the United States since 1988, Mr. Jaurena has led his own group in performances at the Lincoln Center, American Music Theater Festival, and the Ethnic and Folk Music Festival in Washington, DC.  He has performed with Astor Piazzolla’s Sextet at the Montreal Jazz Festival and on his own with the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal. For the past five years, he has performed at the Stanford University Tango Workshop, a popular event for tango dancers throughout the United States.  In 1995, Mr. Jaurena released a recording, Cabarute, with the New York Tango Trio and, in 1997, as the Music Director of Tango Mundo, he performed in Berlin.  Currently, he is the Director of the acclaimed tango group, New York Buenos Aires Connection, which toured Europe and Russia in 1996 with the Irene Hultman Dance Company.  He has recorded with Brazilian singer Ana Caram for Chesky Records and with Paquito d’Rivera for Messidor Records. With the rise of the bandoneón on the concert and recording scene and the renewed interest in the tango-based music of Piazzolla, Jaurena’s talent has become eagerly sought after.  He recently performed with Yo-Yo Ma in Boston, with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Hollywood Bowl Philharmonic among others.  Maestro Jaurena’s regularly performs with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra.

Diana LeGrand Sundsvold, violin
	Diana LeGrand Sundsvold was born in 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio. Studying with her mother, she started to play the violin and the piano at 2 1/2 years of age. She traveled extensively around the world with her family until settling in Italy where she studied with the Russian virtuoso Vadim Brodsky. In 1994 she was accepted into the high school program of the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) where she studied with the late Elaine Richey (former 1st violinist of the Razamousky Quartet). In 1997 she entered the Undergraduate program with a full scholarship studying with Robert Mann (founding member of the Julliard String Quartet and former 1st violinist) and with Nicholas Mann (2nd violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet) and received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance in June 2000. In July of 2000 she received, with an excellent evaluation, her diploma in Violin Performance from the Conservatory of Modena, Italy. That same summer she toured Europe as a soloist with the International Music Program of NCSA. In the fall of 2000, she was accepted with a full scholarship into the Graduate Program of NCSA and in June of 2002 received her Master of Music in Violin Performance.   She performs extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra player in Italy and the United States of America.

Machiko Ozawa, violin
	Violinist Machiko Ozawa, the former concertmaster of Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de Las Artes, gave her debut recital at the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in February 2002 as a winner of Artists International Competition in 2001. As a soloist, she has performed with C.W.Post Chamber Orchestra, Henry Mancini Festival Orchestra, North Shore Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de Las Artes. She commissioned and premiered her original concerto ‘Syrenes’ for violin, percussion and orchestra, by the North Shore Symphony Orchestra in 2004.  She was a finalist of  New York International Tango Competition in 2004 as a member of M2duo(formally M2O).  She received an artistic grant sponsored by the YAMAHA Foundation and released her first Album, Vertical Voyage in JP in 2007. Although trained classically, she now extends her musical range to a variety of styles including jazz, tango, improvisation,world music and dancing/acting. She was chosen one of the main cast in AMOR LATINO at Thalia Theatre in 2009 as a tapdancer/violinst. She created her own style of performance called tapdanceviolin. Recently she extends her music world into Tango and she performed with Pablo Ziegler, Hector Del Curto, Fernando Otero, Octavio Brunetti ,Polly Ferman and Pedro Giraudo at NYC's major venue such as Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Winter Garden at Financial Center and Joe's Pub.

Pedro Giraudo, bass
	Originally from Cordoba Argentina, Pedro Giraudo moved to New York City in 1996. Since then he has become an in-demand bass player and arranger working in a great variety of musical projects. He has performed professionally with Pablo Ziegler, Kenny Garret, Marco Granados, William Cepeda, Chris Washburn, and Eternal Tango;, and recorded with Fernando Oteros X-Tango, Marta Topferova, Lucia Pulido, Mo'Guajiro & Jess Jurkovic. Pedro Giraudo has participated in various Jazz and Music Festivals throughout the United States, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and Asia and performed in venues such as The Blue Note (Japan), Birdland (Vienna), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Blue Note, Iridium, Jazz Standard, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (NYC).

Hugo Patyn, dancer
	Hugo Patyn’s love of dance started at the early age of five. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina he was trained in Argentine folklore dances, modern dance, partner technique, Flamenco, social and stage Tango. It was his passion for Argentine Tango that he exhibited a unique and artistic approach to dance that is best illustrated by body of work.  The recipient of more than 35 professional achievement awards, including the 1997 Grand Champion Festivál Folklórico de Cosquín, 1995 Hugo Del Carril Metropolitan Championship of Tango, Buenos Aires, and the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award, Carlos Gardel Festival of Los Angeles, California. He has produced, directed, and choreagraphed Argentine Tango shows, including Tango and Fire  which ran in both Buenos AiresUnited States; The US Festival Internacional de Tango Argentino; El Corazon Del Tango; and Tango Buenos Aires (for Columbia Artists).  His show credits include: Super Tango (Bueno Aires), Forever Tango (Worldwide), Laugh & Tango (US & Canada), Follies Bergere (US), Alma del Tango (Japan & Taiwan), Tango Spirit III (Japan), Passion of Tango (US), Tango Fiesta (US), Tango and Fire (Argentina-US), El Corazon del Tango (US), Tango Dreams (US & Indonesia), Fusion Tango (US), I Tango (US).Hugo has been a principal or star dancer with many famous orchestras and performers including: Color Tango Dir, Roberto Alvarez, Esemble Hyperion, Lisandro Adrover Quintet, Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchestra, Norberto Ramos, Opera PacificSymphonic Orchestra, Orquesta del Tango de Buenos Aires Directed by Raul Garello & Carlos Garcia, Osvaldo Requena, Ryota Komatsu, Sexteto Tango,Soloist of D’Arienzo Direc. Carlos Lazzari, AlbertoCastillo, Carlos Copes, Gloria & Eduardo Arquimbau, Josh Groban, Julio Bocca,Lisandro Adrover, Maria Graña, Osvaldo Berlingieri.  Mr.Patyn has appeared on television in many countries worldwide, including: Argentina, Italy (RAI), Japan, Mexico (Televisa), South Korea, USA (various).   He also danced in the Carlos Saura film, Tango. His coporate appearances include: Paul Mitchell, IBM, and Opera Pacific.

Carolina Jaurena, dancer
	Influenced by her parents, a Bandoneon Master from Uruguay and her mother a Tango singer from Venezuela, from an early age Carolina pursued a desire to perform. Although originally, trained in ballet, salsa and flamenco she has worked with some of the most recognized names in the tango world Danel Bastone, Jorge Torres, Fabian Peralta, and Cesar Coelho to where she now specializes in Argentine Tango. Having been fortunate enough to work under their guidance, it comes as no surprise that Carolina’s career is filled with a long list of dance credits that includes, Tango & Tango at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Tango Fantastico at the Bellearyre Music Festival, on Broadway at Town Hall in the show “Tangos for la Milonga” with Romulo Larrea and in 2005 she traveled to Europe to perform with the Sudwestfalen Philarmonic at the Symphonic Tango night in Hilchenbach-Lutzel, Germany. In addition, she was also a featured dancer, singer and actress in the Two River Theatre Company production of Blood Wedding and performed in the Buenos Aires month celebration at the World Financial Center. She was also invited to perform at The 10th Annual Orlando International Fringe Festival in Florida, "Tango Summit" with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra, and "100 años de tango, de Villoldo a Piazzolla" at the prestigious Solis Theatre in Montevideo, Uruguay. She performs regularly with Teatro Si in New Jersey and in New York with Leonardo Suarez Paz's "Cuartetango" and Thalia Spanish Theatre in Queens. Carolina is also a much sought after performer in television and film, having appeared on such shows as Fox 5 “Good Day New York” with Penny Crone, "Today in NY" on NBC. In 2006 she was a first prize winner on the popular program Sábado Gigante on Univision. However, the height of her professional career was marked by her role as a primary dancer in the feature film Random Hearts directed by Sidney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford. Carolina talents are not just limited to teaching, but she is a much respected and sought after instructor as well. Over the years, she has been invited to perform and teach at several Dance Festivals including; The Colorado Dance Festival, The D.C. Tango Festival, The Boston Tango Festival, and the "Tango Norte” 2007 Stockholm Tango Festival. Most recently, Carolina was invited to teach at Nashville Tango and performed with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra in Tennessee, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and performed with “Tango Five” at the Einhalden Festival in Germany. In the upcoming year, Carolina will be performing the Westfield Symphony Orchestra.