Néstor Marconi

Néstor Marconi, born on 15 June 1942, is an Argentine bandoneonist, composer, arranger and orchestrator. From the 1970s he worked with major figures in tango, including Horacio Salgán, Astor Piazzolla, Héctor Stamponi and Enrique Francini. He participated in Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer’s María de Buenos Aires and later brought tango into international concert settings, performing Piazzolla’s bandoneon concerto, his own arrangements and original compositions with orchestras around the world.

In 1997 he toured with Yo-Yo Ma in a programme based on Piazzolla’s music; his other projects include Lalo Schifrin’s Esperanto and his own Tangos Concertantes, performed with Martha Argerich. Marconi received Konex awards in 1985, 1995 and 2005, and has directed the Orquesta del Tango de Buenos Aires and the Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce. On Da Vinci’s Las Estaciones del Ángel, he appears as both performer and composer.