Video: “Flores Negras”
Música: Francisco De Caro.
Letra: Mario César Gomila.
Arreglo: Astor Piazzolla.
Desgrabación: Santiago Segret
Audiovisual: Jay Beaven

Heyni Soloera has been selected as a finalist in the 2022 Che Bandoneon International Competition which will be held in Stowe, Vermont, USA from August 14th to 21st, 2022 as a part of the 2022 Stowe Tango Music Festival. Praised for her “soulful bandoneón” (Washington Classical Review), Heyni Solera is a sought after bandoneonist in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Solera has enjoyed a career in the US and abroad playing with performances in Argentina, Canada and Australia collaborating with prominent musicians in the tango music scene. Heyni regularly performs with the Da Capo Tango Orchestra, which focuses on playing danceable tangos and is part of the cello/bandoneon duo, Arco & Aire, with cellist Maxfield Wollam-Fisher. She is also the bandoneonist of Solidaridad Tango Orquesta which focuses on female tango musicians in a typically male dominated genre.

As a scholar, she received her Master of Music degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has developed the lectures A GPS for Tango Listening: What Makes Tango a Tango? and Today’s Woman in Tango: Carving Out Spaces amongst others. Past projects include playing in the orchestra of the highly praised IN Series production of Le Cabaret de Carmen at Source Theatre in Washington, D.C. and at Baltimore Theatre Project in Baltimore, Maryland. Solera’s current and future projects include “Today’s Tango with Heyni”, a mini-series that features today’s contemporary tango musicians throughout the world, the EP album Overture, an original contemporary tango recording project with Arco & Aire, and a bandoneón duo album dedicated to J.S. Bach to was recorded in Argentina.

Heyni shares, “May 28, 2022 was the date of my debut with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra (PASO) at the The Kennedy Center. I got to play beautiful music with amazing musicians while surrounded by friends and family who made the trip to DC. I really can’t ask for more.” It is the first orchestra in the nation to focus solely on Latin American music, the Pan American Symphony Orchestra highlights a variety of music from Latin America and showcases new Latino music talent. 

The Pan American Symphony Orchestra is the first orchestra in the nation to focus solely on Latin American music, the Pan American Symphony (PASO) combines artistic excellence with educational initiatives for the greater arts community. PASO was founded over 25 years ago by dynamic Argentine conductor and musician, Sergio Alessandro Buslje, with the objective of bringing Latin American symphonic music to Washington, DC area concert halls. Maestro Buslje had performed standard classical music for many years but noticed a gap in the area’s cultural offerings—Latin American culture was not being fully represented in area performances, and our Latin American neighbors to the South possess a treasure trove of symphonic works by talented composers that begged to be showcased.

Heyni’s new album “Bach en Bandoneón.” can be found on Spotify, YouTube, and Bandcamp. Heyni shares,””Bach en Bandoneón” has been released. I don’t really have the words to express how happy I am to see this be out in the world. What it really comes down to is this: This whole journey with the bandoneon came out of love, this album is the result of that love, and I hope dear listener that you can hear that and love it too.”

For the album: Bandoneonists/arrangers/composers/producers: Rodrigo Avalos and Heyni Solera; Mixing Engineer: Juan Belvis; Mastering Engineer: Ariel Gato; Album cover: Nacho Vidal; Recorded at the Iglesia de la Congregación Evangélica Alemana de Buenos Aires on December 11th and 18th, 2021. For anyone living near Champaign, IL you will have an opportunity to hear the album live along with tango duos at the historic the Chapel of St. John the Divine on June 4, 2022.

Future performances include:
June 4, 2022: Bach and the Bandoneon: Tango Meets Classical

7:30 PM, Champaign, IL, Chapel of St. John the Divine



June 5, 2022: Queertango@Lit with the Avalos Solera Duo

Champaign, IL, The Literary



June 10, 2022: Solidaridad Tango: Los Clásicos with Orquesta Solidaridad Tango and Valeria Matzner

7:PM, Toronto, The Heliconian Club



June 11, 2022: Bach en Bandoneón with Heyni Solera and Rodrigo Avalos

3:PM, Toronto, The Heliconian Club



June 18, 2022: Workshop: Everything You Need To Know About The Bandoneon

1:30 PM, Charlotte, Midwood International & Cultural Center


June 19, 2022: Workshop: Everything You Need To Know About The Bandoneon

12:45 PM, Charlotte, Midwood International & Cultural Center


June 19, 2022: Solidaridad Tango Orchestra and Arco & Aire at Tango for Musicians at Reed College

3:PM, Portland, OR, Reed College



August 5, 2022: La Nuestra Tango Festival with Orchestra Solidaridad Tango

Brooklyn, NY, La Nuestra Tango Festival



August 19, 2022:Stowe Tango Orchestra
12:00 am, Stowe, VT, Stowe Tango Music Festival

For further information: hys4@georgetown.edu