SUMMARY
Leonardo and Olga Suarez Paz are internationally recognized, multi-talented artists that are dedicated to presenting tango as an artistically complex, emotionally moving and daring genre by incorporating all expressions of the tango art: music, dance, song and poetry. Their creativity speaks through their company, Cuartetango and the productions they direct, which have been featured at the Teatro Colon Opera House, Teatro Alvear, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on PBS, Fox 5, Ebru TV in films and the Latin Grammy Awards, following a double nomination.
Leonardo is known for his uncommon talent as a singer, a career which he began at the age of six, a tango dancer and an artist who “possesses a unique spirit and is a virtuoso extraordinaire on the violin” (Wynton Marsalis). He is a 4th generation tanguero with a “last name of the best tango legacy” (Diaro Critica de la Argentina), who was mentored by Astor Piazzolla and his father Fernando, who had been Piazzolla’s collaborator for over a decade. Since a young age, Leonardo worked with many legendary figures of the genre including Orlando Tripodi, Mariano Mores, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Requena, Nestor Marconi, Osvaldo Berlingieri, Horacio Salgan, Horacio Ferrer, Miguel Angel Zotto and Milena Plebs and others.
Leonardo is accompanied by his wife, Olga Suarez Paz, an emerging talent of tango, who has been praised for the “high quality” of her dancing and “stunning vocal performance” (Mike Telin, Cleveland Classical). Her credits include Andrea Misse’s Tangodanza, Opus Cuatro, and Café de Los Angelitos in Buenos Aires, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Latin star Luis Miguel, Circo De Arrabal (film) and others. A student of dance and theater, she began to work with Cuartetango in 2009, which allowed her to pursue her passion for dance, acting, singing and literature. Olga assists Leonardo, who is an Official Representative of the Academia Nacional Del Tango to conduct master classes and lectures on the topics of Tango dance, music, poetry, history and culture to help preserve the genre of tango, to know its history, aesthetics and to promote its creation in Argentina and world-wide.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Leonardo and Olga Suarez Paz are internationally recognized artists and directors of the Cuartetango, a music and dance company, dedicated to Argentine Tango and have been featured with their productions from the Teatro Colon Opera House and the Teatro Alvear in Buenos Aires to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on PBS, Fox 5 in films and the Latin Grammy Awards, following a double nomination.
Leonardo Suarez Paz is a 4th generation Tango artist from Buenos Aires, known for his uncommon talent as a singer, a career which he began at the age of six, a tango dancer and an artist who “possesses a unique spirit and is a virtuoso extraordinaire on the violin” (Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York). He played the violin professionally since the age of 14 and at 16 became the you youngest member of the prestigious Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colon. He studied Tango dance with maestros Juan Carlos Copes and Miguel Angel Zotto, and his artistic qualities and unique talents made him the only tango artist to perform as a violin soloist and dancer in the legendary shows including The Mariano Mores Show and Miguel Angel Zotto’s - TangoX2 and Perfumes de Tango, with which he traveled throughout France, Italy, Spain, England, Greece, Japan, Mexico and the United States. He was the violin soloist in both the Broadway tango productions of Tango Argentino and Forever Tango and has worked with Orlando Tripodi, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Requena, Nestor Marconi, Osvaldo Berlingieri and Horacio Salgan among many others. Mentored by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, who had a profound influence on him since his childhood and growing up with his legendary father, Fernando, a co-creator of the Tango revolution, Leonardo carries forth the legacy of Nuevo Tango.
Since 2009, Leonardo is accompanied by his wife, Olga Suarez Paz, an emerging talent of tango, who has been praised by the critics for the “high quality” of her dancing and “stunning vocal performance” (Mike Telin, Cleveland Classical). Her tango credits include Andrea Misse’s Tangodanza, Opus Cuatro, and Café de Los Angelitos in Buenos Aires, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Latin star Luis Miguel, Circo De Arrabal and others. She is a principal dancer of Cuartetango and assists Leonardo with the company’s recording projects and education programs through the Academia Nacional Del Tango, of which Leonardo is an Official Representative.
