SCGS Presents Maxi Larrea Tango Concert and Workshop, Free!

The Seattle Classic Guitar Society is proud to present a free tango concert and workshop with Maxi Larrea, acclaimed tango and folklore performer, arranger, composer and educator from Argentina! For more information, please visit https://www.seattleguitar.org/gsc.htm

The evening will open with a concert of solo tango guitar with Maxi Larrea, and after a short break, continue with an interactive workshop open to all to play or to just listen. The workshop will be based on Maxi’s new book geared towards tango guitar students of all ages, presenting traditional tango songs in an accessible way and that reinforces technical and expressive concepts needed to play tango guitar.

Maximiliano Larrea is a nationally certified classical guitarist from Rosario, Argentina. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he works as a tango and folklore performer, arranger, composer and educator. In 2023, he was the recipient of a prestigious Master Artist Award from the Southwest Folklife Alliance in recognition of his expertise in tango guitar. As an educator, Maximiliano has years of experience teaching private lessons and working and developing music curricula in public K-8 schools in Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina. In the United States, he has worked at Montessori schools in Maine and Indiana where he developed an innovative interdisciplinary Spanish and Music education program based around his own compositions and arrangements of Latin American popular and folk songs.

Please enjoy videos from Maxi’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4BRb3asfpuu3eyOyEjm2w