About
Alejandro Fasanini “The composer with a big heart”
Born 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Is a prominent Argentine composer renowned for his contributions to contemporary tango, following in the footsteps of Astor Piazzolla.
He is also recognized as a disciple of the Spanish composer Luis de Pablo. Founder and artistic director of the “Artphonus Symphony Orchestra” and “Hijos ilegítimos de Astor Orchestra”.
He has a discography of 13 albums, spanning from popular to contemporary.
“Fasanini’s score, disciple of the Spanish composer Luis de Pablo, is written with great wisdom and is certainly among the vertices of the symphonism of the cultured world tradition.
In it, the language adopted, has assimilated with rare skill the compositive research of the ‘900, and shows, in each sentence, a personal style, linked to the geographical and cultural origin of the composer, in particular the pulsating rhythm and solar cantabile that can turn into a melancholic or passionate one. Furthermore, it is clear that Maestro Fasanini has a great executive experience.
Unlike some abstract composers, who sometimes forget to mediate between metaphysical ideals and executive pragmatism (and therefore propose inexecutable and unmanageable scores), Fasanini manages with a solid technique and craftsmanship (in the most eloquent sense possible) the complex formal architectures that he creates.
The garish timbral vivacity, guaranteed by a varied instrumental score, creates in my opinion a continuous and always new interest in the listener, moved by the sound narration”. Luca Tessadrelli, Italian composer and composition teacher at the Parma Conservatory.
Awards
-Nomine 21st Award Latin GRAMMY 2020 Best Tango Album
-Semifinalist Composer Competition Ravel Contest – 2017
-Winner Festival delle orchestre di Roma 2011
-Winner Festival della canzone Italiana di Pesaro 2007
-Mention of honour “Certamen Hugo del Carril” of Buenos Aires 1999
Recordings
Tres movimientos para Pina Bausch, Martha Graham y Carolyn Carlson (Coming Soon)
A concert that evokes invisible labyrinths, where music mirrors the dance. Each movement pays tribute to the unique visions of Pina Bausch, Martha Graham, and Carolyn Carlson. An interweaving of memories and dreams, a fabric of sounds that floats between the ineffable and the eternal. In the enigma of dance, a single gesture dissolves into the infinity of music.
Suite for Art
Immerse yourself in a journey that combines Music and Art like never before. A one of a kind album. Twelve famous works of art by iconic painters become music. Compositions for solo instrument, of the classical orchestra, find a new language in the hand of the composer Alejandro Fasanini.
The series of nudes by Modigliani, The Great Wave by Hokusai, The Kiss by Klimt, the self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh, The Theory of Goethe by Turner, Composition VIII by Kandinsky, The Two Fridas by Frida Kalo, The Tiger by Ligabue, The Chagall’s Walk, Hopper’s Nighthawks, Pollock’s Convergence and Picasso’s Guernica.
String Quartet
Writing of a dense contrapuntal polyphony. In the foreground are an interlayer of voices that together build a clear line rich in colors and textures, and at the same time a solid body of sound that manages to sustain sometimes an unexpected harmony.
Sympathetic Resonance Suite
Musicians like Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, and Karlheinz Stockhausen explored new timbral possibilities. In America, John Cage incorporated chance into his compositions, while in France “Musique Concrète” was born. Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer used all kinds of sounds in their works. Fasanini, curious to experience this, exploring the esoteric aspects of sound, composed this suite.
Essa vida esse amor
This is album that travels through the stories of memorable people, a musical tribute to those who, through courage and profound communion with life, have changed the world. These compositions reminds us that life is now and therefore we live every gesture like a blue breeze in celebration, like a flower that dreams.
Classical music concerts from the beginning of the century by the Argentine composer Alejandro Fasanini, disciple of Maestro Luis de Pablo. An original repertoire entrusted to the ArtPhonus orchestra. Four concerts for chamber orchestra dedicated to Federico Fellini’s shamanic hat, the day of Walt Whitman’s funeral, the double birth of Vincent van Gogh and my relationship with the Spanish composer Luis de Pablo.
Sonatas para vivir
A complex and non banal writing, often with an improvisational flavor, aimed at the search for sound suggestions that are not thunderous but delicate and that never yields to easy singing: she is a refined interpreter, through the great variety of touches and the perfect adherence to the stylistic nuances of the musical writing, the Pesaro pianist Daniela Ferrati.
Con il cuore di Aleli
An album of original compositions that represents a wonderful tribute to bel canto and the magical Italian melody.
Fasanini, a classically trained musician, manages to give life to a current work, especially at a time when the melody seems to have been lost along with texts often devoid of poetic images. Con il cuore di Aleli’s poetry takes up a romantic side of the history of Italian song and the voice of Valeria Visconti fully embraces it, illuminating it with his interpretation.
Tríptico Português
Portuguese Triptych, echoes the soul of the Portuguese people, the veil of an uncertain fate amidst the catch of a seaman who’s never astray and the humility of a yellow street where there is little bread, but it’s everyone’s.
A particular articulation in a Triptych which oscillates between the much, the little and the nothing, between the yours, the mine and the ours, between father, son and the spirit which manifests itself in the communion of an urgent poetic and an essential music.
Claudia Toscano y la orquesta Hijos ilegítimos de Astor
This album manages to transcend an aesthetic dimension. An album that assumes the delicate task of feeling the present and addresses who listens to it with its own name. Claudia Toscano, with the impeccable and moving interpretation of her, represents an almost perfect brushstroke of Buenos Aires. His voice is a subtle purple veil that expands in front of a perennial dawn, thus defining stylistic nuances that belong to a popular culture and, at the same time, to a magical existence.
Three hours of music, 37 original compositions in “Contemporary Tango Trilogy”, a trilogy that sees the light after many years of work the argentine composer, Alejandro Fasanini.
Aproximación a otro Tango
On this record, genesis of tentación Tango, Fasanini takes music to a different but familiar dimension to Astor Piazzolla’s experience. It represents a novelty that is not a facade or disposable, but which is the synthesis of an entire Western musical culture (popular, jazz, twentieth century) and, more importantly, it is not lost in conceptual forms extraneous to the emotional sphere.
Reo que confiesa
This has been an important step for the new generation of Tango in Argentina, breaking traditional schemes while maintaining the essence and strength of traditional Tango. They are new sound horizons that brings Alejandro Fasanini author of the lyrics / music and professional dancer of Tango. Fasanini addresses the authentic feeling of Tango by providing austerity in his lyrics full of poetry. “Reo confessing” will remain timeless in the history of the Argentine new tango. Enric Urrutia – Transdisc Music
Showreel
Newspapers
"If Piazzolla were still alive, his music would now probably be very similar to what we hear in this beautiful work by the “Hijos ilegitimos de Astor” Orchestra. A name that is not random and, in our opinion, more than appropriate to describe in three words their music"
Italy - Magazine “El Tanguero” – Andrea Dedó
"Believe That Such Compositions Can Be Interpreted By Imagination, By Our Ability To Dream.The Formation’s Name Of The Bandoneonist And Composer Alejandro Fasanini Means “The Illegitimate Children Of Astor” … But I’m Tempted To Say, With Respect To Their Name, That They Are Both Legitimate And Illegitimate. France - Magazine “La Salida” – Bernardo Nudelman"
For Fasanini, every artistic creation is an expression of the soul; each of these expressions has its own secrets and is linked to everything around us. Alejandro Fasanini opens his soul, and his musicians help him to bring it into resonance with others through music, immersed in something "greater" that transcends us. That Fasanini has a deeply spiritual streak becomes clear in the conversation. For him, music is a tool for social change and conscience, he emphasizes that it must tell stories of our present time. Magazine “Tango Danza” Arndt Büssing - Germany
“Hijos ilegítimos de Astor” is an incredible orchestra composed by ten musicians, a contemporary sound with typical tango instruments. On the occasion of his second album “Intuición Tango”, we met the creator of the project, Argentine composer Alejandro Fasanini."
"Of course, there are many interesting ensembles and many great composers of contemporary tango, but to me Alejandro Fasanini is one of the outstanding and fascinating ones". EE.UU - Modern Tango World - Tango Reviews… and more – Arndt Büssing
Alejandro Fasanini – Argentinian musician and composer - displays great agility in combining moments of wonderful delicateness and brilliance of a single instrument with moments tinged by intense sonorities when the orchestra plays ensemble. He manages to skillfully handle different affective landscapes – where nostalgia always forms the background – so as to provoke deep emotional responses in the listener. Magazine Review, Monica Martin - Argentina
Alejandro Fasanini reveres four artists. The Argentine composer honours Federico Fellini, Vincent van Gogh, Walt Whitman, and Luis de Pablo on Let it appear. Fasanini calls these four orchestral concertos "concerts of classical music of the early 21th century," and he expresses great rigour and skill, especially in dense contrapuntal polyphony. The lack of a captivating thematicism and a tonal centre that creates references makes it challenging to listen to and perform, but the fascination of the search for musical colour, which occurs not only through timbral choices but also through harmonic texture and the relentless variety of rhythms, mitigates the difficulty. Fasanini says a mixture of timbres, which creates an emotion, or a single melodic interval, which builds "a tower of intervals," can spark his creativity.
The album is very courageous both in terms of the themes it tackles and, above all, in terms of its compositional choices, which are rigorous and in line with sophisticated contemporary music research, but never pretentious and never far from the sensitivity of those who listen to it without prejudice. It's an album that touches the soul of everyone, cultured or not. In short, it's a small miracle and an example in a time of abundant insipid and self-referential publications. A physical CD that music lovers cannot miss on their shelves. Musiculturaonline Magazine - Vincenzo Pasquali
..The music of Fasanini, who is also musical director and arranger, is here entrusted to a "dedicated" orchestra directed by Ivan Gambini, made up of Italian and brazilian musicians, who has fully exploited its qualities by creating a soft harmonic shell voice of Firpo, flourishing with lyrical veins and interpretative moods..." MusicaNews - Amedeo Furfaro
From painting, colors, and shapes emerges the new album by Alejandro Fasanini, just released by Etnica Edizioni. The Argentine composer is no stranger to seeking extra-musical inspiration: in the past, it has come from great personalities in the worlds of cinema, music, and art, or those distinguished by their social commitment. Now, his music springs forth and materializes from pictorial suggestions. Lucia Fava
Alejandro Fasanini is an Argentine composer whose musical work stands out for its rich blend of tradition and innovation. Born and raised in Argentina, Fasanini has developed a compositional style that reflects his cultural roots while exploring new and stimulating musical territories. News Music Reviews - Leonardo Florenci
Fasanini has always had a special focus on the mystery of the unconscious, the human being... An immediate approach to life and art, from the sublimation of extreme sensitivity into sounds... Alejandro’s premise gives us an idea of an overwhelming personality and above all of the complexity of factors involved in generating his music. New Trends magazine – Federica Nardacci
All the complexity of Fasanini's acute writing comes to us as an act of naked naturalness, welcoming us into his fantastic world and inviting us to a dizzying journey of the spirit. And isn't this perhaps the supreme achievement of music? Franco Finocchiaro, Academia Nacional del Tango - Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Alejandro Fasanini, a composer born in Argentina, founded in Italy a chamber tango orchestra. With both the bandoneon and multiple string instruments, the recordings are of great acoustic quality. Sometimes passionate metamorphoses appear and vibrate intensely with a sharp tone and are written in unusual times. Soft and romantic is the female voice. It is a marvelous work that develops a style under the influence of Piazzolla. Review marquee.co.jp
Workshop
Joining Fasanini’s experience of active listening was like diving into music for the very first time. Classical themes that has never been so material came to my ears as a vision. Audio and visual perspectives ended up like a unique mirror in my mind and in the feelings of many in the audience like we were taking part to a public stream of a cinema session: everything with no screen and shut eyes!
Through his mentorship and guidance famous music masterpieces of reknown fame became a movie just via perceptions… like a soundtrack director must feel while composing such beauty! Thanks Alejandro -
Eleonora from Labo / DTN&TPP / Torango publishing
Through his mentorship and guidance famous music masterpieces of reknown fame became a movie just via perceptions… like a soundtrack director must feel while composing such beauty! Thanks Alejandro -
Eleonora from Labo / DTN&TPP / Torango publishing