Exequiel Mantega presents his symphonic work "Beauchef"
Composer and arranger Exequiel Mantega will present his symphonic work “Beauchef” via streaming on Friday 6 of August.
butter, conductor of the orchestra Tango Sin Fin, is one of the main references within the new generation of Argentine music. Stefano Bollani recently chose Exequiel and his orchestra to perform the works from his debut album as a composer of symphonic works..
"Beauchef" was recently launched and is available on all digital platforms. The presentation, meanwhile, It will be from the 21 hours and from author's official YouTube channel.
As for Mantega, he is a prolific composer, arranger and conductor who for several years has had an important presence on stage. In this context, for the first season of the Symphonic Stations at the CCK (2017/2018) He conducted 45 symphonic arrangements.
further, Epsa Publishing has published more than 100 Of his works; like the French publisher Henry Lemoine, who edited his arrangements on Astor Piazzolla's "6 Estudios Tanguísticos".
His work "Beauchef" was written during the pandemic in 2020 and consists of 4 movements called "phases": Building, Distance, Isolation and Consequence.
Asked about "Beauchef", Mantega pointed out that "it is the name of the street where we build our new home" and added: "Here we spend as a family the different quarantine periods. During the first isolation phases I began to write each of the movements of the work, and I had the honor and the beautiful possibility of working on its development through virtual meetings with the teacher Vince Mendoza ".
The musician pointed out that “given the uncertainty of when it would be possible to play with the orchestra again, we made the decision - together with my partner Paulina Fain- to carry out the recording of the work in stages "and explained that the beginning was during" the first week in which rehearsals and recordings were enabled ".
About this, Mantega said he was unable to “describe the emotion we feel when we‘ dream together ’with fellow Sin Fin after a year of isolation. It was an arduous and complex task, but the satisfaction generated by playing together again, made it completely worth the effort. Regardless of the context, music is always there to help us ".