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Latin GRAMMY Award winner bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Pedro Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center\u2019s Midsummer Night Swing<\/a> in July 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018 his album ‘Vigor Tanguero<\/a>‘ won a Latin GRAMMY award for ‘Best Tango Album’. In 2014 Ruben Blades\u2019 CD \u201cTangos<\/a>\u201d on which he recorded bass won two Grammys Awards (Best Tango Album & Best Latin Pop). Pedro Giraudo has collaborated with Pablo Ziegler<\/a>, Paquito D\u2019Rivera<\/a>, and Dizzy Gillespie\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9 William Cepeda<\/a>, as well as \u2018Tango meets Jazz\u2019 guests: Branford Marsalis<\/a>, Kenny Garrett<\/a>, Regina Carter<\/a>, Nestor Torres<\/a>, Miguel Zenon<\/a> among many others. Pedro Giraudo has also collaborated as a performer and arranger for one of New York’s most respected institutions: The New York Philharmonic<\/a> and has played the bass for the magnificent New York City Ballet Orchestra<\/a>. He has also been the musical director of Tango for All’s ‘Blind’, Mariela Franganillo <\/a>Company\u2019s \u201cTango Connection\u201d and \u201cTango Recuerdo\u201d and performed with U.S.\u2019s most prominent tango ensembles including \u2018Forever Tango\u2019, Hector Del Curto<\/a>\u2019s ‘Eternal Tango’<\/a> and Daniel Binelli<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Tango Metropolis\u2019. He has participated in numerous jazz and music festivals throughout the North America, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, and performed in venues such as The Blue Note (Japan & USA), Birdland (Austria), London\u2019s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Jazz Festival Royale in Thailand, Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Iridium, Jazz Standard, Blue Note, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (NYC).<\/p>\n\n\n

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As a composer and arranger, Giraudo leads his own jazz and tango ensembles and has been hailed by critics as one of the most creative and daring bandleaders on the scene today. His compositions combine his love of classical forms, Argentine tango and folk music, and the spontaneity of jazz improvisation. The band, which boasts some of New York\u2019s finest musicians, has performed regularly in the most prestigious jazz clubs in the New York City area, including the Jazz Standard, Birdland<\/a>, The Jazz Gallery<\/a>, Blue Note<\/a>, Joe\u2019s Pub<\/a>, as well as abroad. John Murph of Downbeat described Giraudo\u2019s music as \u201can opulent listening experience of modern, orchestral jazz, brimming with passionate improvisations, deliberate contrapuntal melodies and plush harmonies. Pedro Giraudo has also conducted the world renown WDR Big Band<\/a> and Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His discography includes ‘Impulso Tanguero’ (Tiger Turn 2021), ‘An Argentinian in New York’ (Zoho Music 2018), ‘Vigor Tanguero’  (Zoho Music 2018), \u2018Cuentos\u2019 (Zoho Music 2015), \u2018C\u00f3rdoba\u2019 (Zoho Music 2011), \u2018El Viaje\u2019 (2009) , \u2018Desconsuelo\u2019 (2005), \u2018Mr Vivo\u2019 (2002) and \u2018Destiny of Flowers\u2019 (2000). \u2018C\u00f3rdoba\u2019 won 2011 Latin Jazz Corner\u2019s: \u201cLatin Jazz Large Ensemble Album Of The Year\u201d, \u201cLatin Jazz Boundary Breaking Album Of The Year\u201d,\u201d South American Jazz Album Of The Year\u201d, and \u201cLatin Jazz Composition Of The Year\u201d; while \u2018El Viaje\u2019 won 2010 \u201cBest Latin Jazz Album Of The Year,\u201d and \u201cBest Latin Jazz Large Ensemble Album Of The Year,\u201d as well as \u201cBest Latin Jazz Composition\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023 Pedro Giraudo was commissioned by Multicultural Music Group<\/a> to write an orchestral piece to celebrate Afro-Argentine culture. The piece, titled “Sin Palabras” was premiered at Lehman College on June 2023. Additionally that year, the extraordinary string quintet Sybarite5<\/a> commissioned an arrangement of Giraudo’s “Con un nudo en la garganta”. In 2020 Pedro Giraudo received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. In 2013 he was commissioned by M\u00fasica de C\u00e1mara<\/a> to compose a piece for string orchestra which was presented in May 2014. In 2008, Giraudo was awarded a composer\u2019s commission through the Jazz Gallery in New York, for a new work for his large ensemble; and in 2010, he was commissioned by the JazzReach<\/a> initiative to compose a new work for their Big Drum\/Small World main-stage program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has played bass on dozens of recordings for the world\u2019s leading labels including Sony, Warner, Nonesuch, Naxos and Harmonia Mundi, as well as for independent projects, and on movies including Oliver Stone<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Wall Street II\u2019. He is also the principal bassist of the M\u00fasica de C\u00e1mara String Orchestra. Pedro Giraudo is endorsed by the gold standard in string makers, D\u2019Addario, and the outstanding Keeley Electronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Giraudo plays a 2019 Amati Bass by Tetsu Suzuki<\/a> and a Registered French bow by Samuel Kolstein (ca. 1950’s) previously owned by Frederick Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Want to get to know Pedro better? Check out these interviews!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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