WMAS (Washington Metropolitan Accordion Society) will present bandoneon virtuoso Emmanuel Trifilio as their guest artist on Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 4:PM, at Sleepy Hollow United Methodist Church, 3435 Sleepy Hollow Road, in Falls Church, Virginia.
Emmanuel, who is originally from Argentina, will play a solo concert for the first hour and then lead a workshop on tango interpretation. Bring your accordions!
This will be an opportunity to hear some fantastic music, so please invite your family and friends and any tango dancers you know. Non-members will be asked for a $10 donation at the door. Members and children under 12 enter free.
Emmanuel Trifilio, bandoneon, discovered a bandoneon in a second-hand shop in his native Argentina, launching his love affair with tango. A Grammy-nominated composer, Emmanuel has performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and with orchestras throughout the USA and Cuba.
QuinTango plays Piazzolla’s, ‘Libertango’ at Creative Cauldron
Violins: Regino Madrid, Joan Singer: Piano: Julie Huang Tucker; Bass: Ali Cook; Bandoneon: Emmanuel Trifilio
International bandoneonist and prolific tango composer Emmanuel Trifilio brings a fresh perspective to the traditional tango sound, both in performance and composition. Now based in Washington, D.C., Sr. Trifilio’s career began as a bandoneon soloist at venues such as the famous Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires. After establishing himself as an accomplished performer in Argentina, he was invited to join Los Inmigrantes Tango Orchestra, which won Buenos Aires’s annual tango orchestra contest soon after. HIs career expanded across South America when he was invited to tour Chile with Maestro Tato Finocci.
Emmanuel Trifilio traveled to Europe for booked performances; after extended residencies in Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, he settled in the U.S. He has since appeared, as a soloist, on the main stages of Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center with small and large ensembles including the Choral Arts Society of Washington and National Philharmonic Orchestra. Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Pan American Symphony Orchestra, Endless Mountains Music Festival Orchestra, and Florida International University Orchestra and Chorus. He joined the South Carolina Philharmonic in 2017, performing Astor Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneon.
Emmanuel collaborated as arranger and bandoneonist on QuinTango’s 2014 album “Tango Lovers”. He can be heard with esteemed cellist Gautier Capuçon on the soundtrack of the short film Le Petit Nuage. He toured New Orleans and Lincoln Center with the Octavio Brunetti Tango Orchestra, traveled with the internationally acclaimed band Otros Aires as a solo bandoneonist in their 2014 U.S. tour, and performed with Alejandro Ziegler Quartet on their 2016 USA-Canada tour.
In addition to solo performing and arranging, Emmanuel composes and presents original tangos with various ensembles across the East Coast. The world première of his “Tango Suite No. 1: Five Movements for Bandoneon, Cello, and Guitar” was featured at the Embassy of Argentina as part of the Pan American Symphony Orchestra’s 2015 Tango Festival. A founding member of New York Tango 6, a traditional tango sextet dedicated to premiering new tango works, he performed world premieres of several of his works at the group’s debut concert.
Founded in 2015, his Trifilio Tango Trio presented virtuosic programs of his all new and original tango music for Bandoneon, cello, and guitar. TTT have recorded two albums of Emmanuel’s original tangos and tours internationally. “Milonga de la Ausencia,” from their first album, Original, is featured on the short film “Vuelve con nosotros” and was nominated for Best Original Score at MOFF Film Festival in Milan in 2016. TTT’s booked appearances for 2017-2018, including D.C., NYC, San Francisco, Richmond, Havana, Miami, Houston, Denver, and Buenos Aires.
Emmanuel Trifilio regularly performs with the chamber group QuinTango and is currently composing new works for the venerated Bandoneonist Daniel Binelli.
For further information: Peter@Musicisforever.com
