The name of Astor Piazzolla, the master of the Argentine tango, known as El Gran Astor (The Great Astor), is a name that appears very often in today's concert programmes. Performers and audiences are attracted by the originality of his music, the wistful melody, the magical rhythm, the classical structure masterfully combined with the passion of the tango.

Music path Á. Piazzolla began his musical career as a tango performer, playing for tango dancers. The composer studied in Paris (with the renowned teacher Nadia Boulanger), but when he returned to Argentina, he also returned to his Argentine nature - tango - by infusing elements of jazz and classical music into the music of traditional tango. Thus was born the "new tango" (Tango nuevo), a tango no longer for the feet but for the ears, which is still inseparable from the name El Gran Astor. Á. Piazzolla gave the genre a new meaning. The composer wrote a lot of music for films, plays and ballets, but the tango dominates his work, with over 300 of them in the last 10 years of his life alone.

The greatest challenge for Á. Piazzolla's music is that his original scores are few and far between, so the performance of his music nowadays depends heavily on the technical training, creativity and knowledge of performers. One of these is Á. Piazzolla's music is the arranger and passionate advocate of the composer's work, pianist Donald Bruce. Thanks to his tireless interest and desire to have this music heard in Lithuania, many Á. Piazzolla's music with some of Lithuania's most renowned instrumentalists and vocalists, and the opuses that will be performed in this concert are also under his pen - all of the works for flute, cello and piano have been arranged by Donaldas Bružas.