2nd Part 19:00 -

Kumiko Kondo + Leonardo Bravo Tango Concert and Dance Show

A splendid concert by the great guitarist of great international recognition, Leonardo Bravo, and Kumiko Kondo, a representative tango violin player. During the concert, Bruno and Cinthia, dancers with great experience in stage tango, present the art of tango.
** The live stage performance will be streamed on Zoom.

Kumiko Kondo

Kumiko Kondo graduated from Tokyo College of Music. She studied Tango violin from Fernando Suarez Paz, the violinist in Astor Piazzolla's Quinteto, and Hajime Jinno, one of the greatest pioneers of Tango violin in Japan.
After working in Saito Yuzo y su Orquesta Tipica Pampa, she became a permanent member of the Bandoneonist Ryota Komatsu's Tango Orchestra.
She performed with Tango Maestros such as Jose Colangelo, Osvaldo Berlingieri, Victor Lavallen, Juan Jose Mosalini, Maria Graña, Juanjo Dominguez, Amelita Baltar, and Guillermo Fernandez.
Other than Tango, Ms. Kondo is active in various music scenes like jazz and pops. The stars she performed with include Taeko Onuki, Hiroko Kokubu, Noriyuki Makihara, Kazufumi Miyazawa, Milva, Misato Watanabe, Jin Oki.
She also is prominent in Choro, Brazilian folk music. She played the bandolim in the concerts with Choro giants such as Jorginho do Pandeiro and Mauricio Carrilho.

Leonardo Bravo

Leonardo Bravo is a Graduate of the National University in Rosario, Argentina. He has developed an extensive career as a soloist, giving concerts and masterclasses in the Americas, Europe and Asia. His repertoire extends from classical music to Tango and Argentine folkloric music.
In 1991 he was appointed Professor at Rosario National University, until 2003 when he moved to Japan, continuing his work and as a teacher and as a performer . In February of 2008 published his composition “5 Little pieces” (Trees, Men and the river) This piece was chosen as a mandatory piece in the “International Kyushu Guitar Contest” Japan. Also was chosen as part of the mandatory repertoire of the Marshal University USA, and in 2015 was chosen by Trinity College of London to be part of their mandatory Exam books.
Also this year after a concerts and Masterclass series in U.S.A he was awarded with the “Joan C. Edward's Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts” by the Marshall University College of Fine Arts. EEUU.From 2009 he was appointed by the “Gendai Guitar” as a Professor of its “Gendai Guitar. Music Academy”,Tokyo. Where besides teaching he also write articles dedicated to the Classical and Latin American Music for the “Gendai Guitar Magazine”.

Bruno Mayo & Cinthia Díaz

Their teaching career started in 2009. The first tango school to formally hire them as teachers was Tiempo Ibearoamericano in Fukuoka, Japan, where they return yearly.
They have also travelled giving exhibitions and workshops in Italy, Greece, Austria, Uruguay, and several places in Argentina: Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Córdoba and Santa Fé.
Of course their main artistic activities are concentrated in Buenos Aires, where they live. Cinthia teaches at UNA and at the Escuela de Danzas Tradicionales Argentinas Jose Hernández. Bruno is a guest teacher at UNA, teacher and choreographer at the Compañia de Danzas Argentinas de la Municipalidad de Ituzaingó, he works as a DJ in several milongas and also acts as musical advisor to maestro Leonardo Cuello.
Both Cinthia and Bruno also teach at the college extension of UNA.
As dancers, they regularly perform dancing exhibitions at traditional milongas, and this year they have been invited to participate at the Festival y Mundial de Baile de Tango (Bruno had won first prize at the Campeonato Metropolitano de Milonga in 2006).