The London Tango Orchestra
The London Tango Orchestra is the largest professional tango group in the country, a real "orquesta tipica" uniting leading UK tango musicians with players from Argentina. The orchestra was founded in 2009 by Caroline Pearsall and is the first of its kind in the UK.
The orchestra performs music from the rich repertoire of tango, old and new, sharing its love of tango music through concerts, milongas and workshops and cultural exchanges between musicians from Europe, USA and Argentina. The group also goes out in smaller formations, such as the London Tango 4tet.
Their performances so far include the Southbank Centre, Flipside Festival with Leonardo Suarez Paz and Juan Jose Mosalini, Oxford University, La Clave Fest in Finsbury Park, Chelsea Arts Club, Helmsley Arts Centre, St James Church in Piccadilly, Ignite Concert Series at the Royal Albert Hall, the City of London Festival, Union Chapel, The Forge, Lets Tango UK Carnival Milonga, Tangoffs, Learning Tango, Tango Alchemy, Tango South, the Quarterhouse in Folkestone, Reading Tango Festival and Halle Tango Festival in Germany. They were part of a tango documentary filmed by the BBC in 2012 and several members recently appeared on the ITV series Mr Selfridge II.
Recent radio plays include 103.2 DublinCityFM and Resonance FM and their music has been used in the TV show The Real Drakoolavs.
Their first album Primeros Pasos came out in 2014 and is available on this website, and the second album Abrazo Abierto, came out in September 2021, which includes great classics by Piazzolla and new music written by tango composers in the last 5 years.
They are now preparing for our third album and hope to secure some funding so will start recording once that has been achieved!
Please see here for more information
The orchestra's current musicians are:
Caroline Pearsall (violin & direction)
Guillermo Rozenthuler (voice)
John Turville (piano)
Tom Mason (bass)
Diane Aidenbaum (violin)
Barnaby Adams (viola)
Adam Spiers (cello)
Mirek Salmon/Guillermo Willis (bandoneon)
Iñigo Berrade (accordion)
The orchestra performs music from the rich repertoire of tango, old and new, sharing its love of tango music through concerts, milongas and workshops and cultural exchanges between musicians from Europe, USA and Argentina. The group also goes out in smaller formations, such as the London Tango 4tet.
Their performances so far include the Southbank Centre, Flipside Festival with Leonardo Suarez Paz and Juan Jose Mosalini, Oxford University, La Clave Fest in Finsbury Park, Chelsea Arts Club, Helmsley Arts Centre, St James Church in Piccadilly, Ignite Concert Series at the Royal Albert Hall, the City of London Festival, Union Chapel, The Forge, Lets Tango UK Carnival Milonga, Tangoffs, Learning Tango, Tango Alchemy, Tango South, the Quarterhouse in Folkestone, Reading Tango Festival and Halle Tango Festival in Germany. They were part of a tango documentary filmed by the BBC in 2012 and several members recently appeared on the ITV series Mr Selfridge II.
Recent radio plays include 103.2 DublinCityFM and Resonance FM and their music has been used in the TV show The Real Drakoolavs.
Their first album Primeros Pasos came out in 2014 and is available on this website, and the second album Abrazo Abierto, came out in September 2021, which includes great classics by Piazzolla and new music written by tango composers in the last 5 years.
They are now preparing for our third album and hope to secure some funding so will start recording once that has been achieved!
Please see here for more information
The orchestra's current musicians are:
Caroline Pearsall (violin & direction)
Guillermo Rozenthuler (voice)
John Turville (piano)
Tom Mason (bass)
Diane Aidenbaum (violin)
Barnaby Adams (viola)
Adam Spiers (cello)
Mirek Salmon/Guillermo Willis (bandoneon)
Iñigo Berrade (accordion)