Biography

Fernando Tarrés's biography

He is widely renowned as one of the most remarkable and innovative Argentine jazzmen of the last decades. The significant number of artistic projects in which he has been involved as a composer, arranger, guitarist and producer alongside big names such as Tom Harrell, Danilo Pérez, Donny McCaslin, Erik Friedlander, Mark Feldman, David Kikoski, Luis Perdomo, Drew Gress, the Bologna Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Panamá, Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo, Tito Puente, Paquito D’Rivera, Rubén Blades and Gary Burton, among many others, have made him one of the most significant figures of the South American creative music scene.
Fernando Tarrés has released 14 albums under his name and over twenty as an arranger and/or producer. In 2001 he founded Buenos Aires Underground (BAU Records), an independent record label which aims at promoting and disseminating creative music. BAU Records has, to date, over fifty albums in its catalogue and many of the most important artists of the current scene have released their albums through this label.
At present, Tarrés is venturing into audiovisual production, mainly for the Internet, with interviews with musicians and video recordings of studio sessions. He can be rightly considered a pioneer of the initiative to modernise and update the diffusion of the contents and the productions of the Argentine creative music.
Having been commissioned by the Festival, Tarrés summoned the Cuerdas Pop-temporáneas, an ensemble created by the illustrious violinist and composer Damián Bolotin, to work through the Argentine popular music with a contemporary language. All its members have a solid instrumental background and an extensive international career. They have released an album, Hora Pico (2006) and recorded several soundtracks and albums of artists such as Lito Vitale, Donny McCaslin, Raúl Carnota, Mariano Otero and others.

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