Program / Event Details

Provider: Artivate at Levine Music

Address
2801 Upton Street NW
Washington D.C., MD 20008
Primary Contact: Artivate At Levine
Arco & Aire – “Una Noche Entre Sueños” New Tangos For a New Era

“Una Noche Entre Sueños” New Tangos For a New Era

Tango has extensively evolved from its “Golden Era” of the 1940s dance orchestras to the international fame of Astor Piazzolla and today’s contemporary tango. Audiences will hear a wide array of tango music from today’s most influential contemporary composers. Always enthusiastic about providing educational opportunities, Arco & Aire provide context and stories to the music they perform.

 

Fees are for daytime school programs in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia only.

Evening, weekend, workshop, and non-school fees differ – please contact us.

 

About Arco & Aire

For the past seven years, Heyni Solera and Maxfield Wollam-Fisher have worked together to bring live tango music to the Washington, DC area. This dynamic duo focuses on tangos not commonly played on the dance floor and tangos written by composers who are alive today. Their mission is to foster a sense of community and collaboration between tango musicians, organizers, and dancers. They also provide outreach to new audiences that may not be aware of tango’s resurgence by working with directors and artists from other genres. In 2021, Arco & Aire released their first EP, Overture, whose track, “La Bordona,” won the Best Latin Song for the 2022 Wammie Awards. In July of 2024, they released their first album, Una Noche Entre Sueños, which features all contemporary tango written expressly for the duo.

 

Heyni Solera

Praised for her “soulful bandoneón” (Washington Classical Review), Heyni Solera is a sought-after bandoneonist based in Washington, DC. Heyni has enjoyed a career in the US and abroad, performing in Argentina, Canada, and Australia and collaborating with prominent tango artists such as Ramiro Boero, Julian Peralta, Pablo Jaurena, Santiago Segret, Pedro Giraudo, and many more. In 2019, Heyni was a member of the Argentine tango orchestra schools La Orquesta de Tango de la Una and the Conservatorio Superior de “Manuel de Falla,” where she had the opportunity to perform in the prestigious Centro Cultural Kirchner.

As a scholar, Heyni received her Master of Music in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has developed the lectures A GPS for Tango Listening: What Makes Tango a Tango? and Today’s Woman in Tango: Carving Out Spaces, amongst others. These lectures have been presented throughout the United States and Canada for public audiences and academics alike.

 

Maxfield Wollam-Fisher

Maxfield Wollam Fisher is a cellist, producer, and educator. A musician who revels in versatility, Maxfield enjoys collaborating in every genre, from the traditional to the avant-garde, folk to pop. Recently, he could be found on Becky G’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Miss Lauryn Hill’s concert at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, and performing and recording tango in Argentina and around the United States.

As a tango musician for nearly fifteen years, Maxfield has performed with Julian Peralta, Ramiro Boero, Stratos Achlatis, Victor LaVallen, Pablo Zeigler, and many others. During this time, he directed a number of projects, including the Da Capo Tango Orchestra, Orquesta Tipica Loca, and the Mad City Live Tango Festival. Along with presenting workshops for both tango musicians and dancers, Maxfield advocates for cello and contemporary tango and recently wrote and recorded a series of tango arrangements for solo cello in Buenos Aires.

Maxfield holds performance degrees from Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin and has studied with Sharon Robinson, Peter Howard, and Tanya and Uri Vardi.

Event/Program Details

Dates: 2025-01-01 - 2025-06-30
Event Length: 45 minutes
Location: On location
Audiences: 9 - 12, Educators, PreK, Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Core Curricula: World &amp, Classical Languages, amp
Art Forms: Music
Program/Event Format: In School Performance, After School/Weekend