BIOGRAPHY

Argentine-born bassist and composer Pablo Aslan resides in the US since 1980. Director of Avantango, he is also a founder and codirector of New York Buenos Aires Connection and New York Tango Trio with bandoneonist Raul Jaurena.
With these groups he has recorded several CDs and toured throughout the Americas, Europe and Russia. He participated in the 2nd and 3rd Tango Summits in Spain and Uruguay and recently toured the US and Japan with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Astor Piazzolla Quintet, appearing also on PBS and ABC. He is a member of BMG artist Pablo Ziegler's Quintet for New Tango, with whom he recorded and toured extensively in the US, Europe and Japan. He appeared at Carnegie Hall and on PBS with "Tango Magic" and directed the New York Tango Quartet in the 2000 JVC Jazz Festival also at Carnegie Hall. Aslan performed and recorded in 1999-2000 with clarinetist David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness in the US and Europe
Pablo has worked with artists as varied as film composer Lalo Shiffrin, Grammy-winner singer Shakira, Grammy winner and Academy Award nominee Jorge Calandrelli, Grammy nominated Argentine pianist Adrian Iaies, Grammy Winner Argentine composer Carlos Franzetti, Osvaldo Golijov, Klezmer radical Frank London, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition to writing and arranging for his own groups, Aslan wrote music for the New York-based Tango Mujer and was arranger and musical director of Jenny Levison's "Shtil, Mayn Corazon – a Yiddish Tango Cabaret."