Cosentino Saúl (1935)
Argentina
Pianist, composer and arranger.
English
Saul Cosentino is a celebrated Argentine pianist and composer and has been performing, recording and composing for several decades. He has worked with practically all the greats of modern Argentine Tango and has won many prizes. Saúl Cosentino made his first recording of avantgarde tangos composed and arranged by him in 1983. Other recordings followed, and in 1990 he won first prize in the Carlos Gardel Competition. Other recordings, publications and awards have followed, and a series of compositions that has included a guitar concerto and a prize-winning suite for harp and strings. In 1995 he wrote his slow milonga La Recoleta, for which Horacio Ferrer later provided words. It depicts the neighbourhood of the title, where Ferrer has lived for many years. His Concerto for Guitar and Symphony Orchestra, Argentina, was composed in 1998, in collaboration with guitarist Marion Andreola and performed by Roberto Aussel. Maximo Diego Pujol, himself a great composer in the contemporary tango style, after Piazzolla, has transcribed many his pieces.