The project MUJERES comprises tangos composed, arranged, played, sung and recorded by
women.
The goal is to highlight the value of female work throughout the two centuries of the genre's
existence, at a moment characterized by the rupture with the patriarchy that dominates the
tango world.
Our aim was to build a team of female musicians that would respond to the urgency of a new
tango committed to current changes in our society.
The repertoire includes tangos, waltzes and milongas, all written between the
beginning of the last century and today, and revised to achieve a contemporary sound and
dance style.
We aim to empower women and sexual and gender dissidences on the milonga dance floors,
for there to be more tandas with female composers and voices, more role switching, more
female and dissident DJs, more bands from the "collective"... All in all, more space and
visibility for us and for everybody.
Project participants:
Amalia Escobar
- Pianist, arranger and conductor. She is currently working as a teacher, composer, arranger and performer of different tango groups. In 2017 she was selected to participate in La Bienal de Arte Joven and to take the seminar in Musical Theater.
She participated in the program "Pianistas Argentinos" hosted by Hilda Herrera and was part of the last generation of the Orquesta Escuela De Tango "Emilio Balcarce" (2019-2021). In 2021 she released her first EP entitled "Andanzas"..
Roberta Maegli
- Bandoneonist. Bandoneonist. She began studying piano and musical language at an early age. Self-taught, she explored guitar and percussion until tango dance led her to hold a bandoneon in her hands for the first time, an instrument to which she devoted herself under the guidance of Santiago Segret, Federico Pereiro, Ramiro Boero and Santiago Polimeni. His passage through the Emilio Balcarce Tango School Orchestra (2015-2016) sealed his tango vocation. Since then he has participated in groups of varied character, such as the Traspié trio, the indie music group Trapalanda, the Argentine music quartet La Taba, the Orquesta Romántica Milonguera, the Orquesta Victoria, and the Che Dúo with guitarist Julio Santillán, among others.
Mónica Toledo
- Double bassist. She graduated from the Alberto Ginastera Municipal Conservatory in the city of Morón, and was a member of several symphonic groups and tango and folklore groups: Hurlingham Youth Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the University of Morón, National Symphonic Band for the Blind, La mazamorra Creole Orchestra Pura Muña, Plaza Flores Tango, and Fundamentango.
She currently teaches double bass at the Conservatory of Music A. Ginastera. Ginastera and in the choirs and orchestra project of the University of Hurlingham.
Amanda Burgos
- Violinist. She graduated from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes and the Conservatorio de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. She is a violinist in OSMFV, Orq. Académica de Buenos Aires, Orquesta Típica Sans Souci. She specialized with Guillermo Rubino in the Emilio Balcarce Tango Orchestra.
She is a violin teacher in the program Orquestas infantiles y juveniles de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Within the Ministry of Culture of the Nation she works as violinist and coordinator of the program "Ronda Musical", which offers tango and folklore concerts to young people and seniors.