Juan José Mosalini

Juan José Mosalini ( born 1943 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine bandoneon player and composer.

Life and work

Mosalini, who comes from a musical family, began with eight years to learn the bandoneon as an autodidact. At thirteen, he began playing in the dance halls; at the age of seventeen he became a professional musician. In 1961 he was awarded the first prize in the music competition Nace una estrella Canal 13 He began his career in renowned Argentine tango orchestras in Leopoldo Federico and Osvaldo Pugliese. He also worked with Susana Rinaldi and Astor Piazzolla with Daniel Binelli and founded the avant-garde ensemble Guardia Nueva.

In 1977, he left, like many other artists and intellectuals, because of the ruling military dictatorship since 1976 his home country and went into exile in Paris. There he founded with pianist Gustavo Beytelmann and bassist Patrice Caratini the early 1980s, a trio that modernized as a variant of Tango Nuevo traditional tango into a new arrangement with jazz elements. In the following years he devoted himself, as well as the further development of the bandoneon music and composing film music and chamber music and orchestral works. As a soloist he has performed with many renowned symphony and chamber orchestras, such as the Ensemble Modern, with whom he at the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival 2002 occurred. With Juraj Galan and Norbert Dömling he toured the project Jazz Meets Tango. He also founded the Gran Orquesta de Tango, a large group with which he worked up the Tango history. Furthermore, he was involved in productions by Irmin Schmidt and Jean -Pierre Mas.

In 1986, he opened a bandoneon school. In the early 1990s he became a professor for bandoneon at the National Conservatory of Gennevilliers, where he held since 1989 courses.