Tango Nuevo!

A conductor whose international reputation is built on repertoire of unusual stylistic diversity, Frank Strobel has long been recognised as a leading figure in the space where film meets music. In particular, he has played a crucial role in bringing film concerts into leading opera houses and concert halls.

The 2024/25 season includes the premiere of Gance’s Napoléon epic in Paris, concerts tributing Ennio Morricone as well as the German premiere of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with music by Wojciech Kilar at the Film Festival Braunschweig.

His most important film projects include Nosferatu (2023), Ivan The Terrible (2016), J’accuse (2014), Metropolis (2010), Nibelungen (2010), Battleship Potemkin (2009), Rosenkavalier (2006), Romeo & Juliet (2006) and Alexander Nevsky (2003). He was a founding member of the Europäische FilmPhilharmonie in 2000, an institution dedicated to the artistic development of music and film in the concert hall. This has given rise to such ambitious projects as Matrix Live at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

He has conducted such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Filarmonica della Scala, Staatskapelle Dresden, HR-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, as well as Seattle and Sydney Symphony. Frank Strobel held recently the position as Chief Conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester.

Within his vast discography the series with film suites by Alfred Schnittke, to which Strobel retains the adaptation rights, were received to great critical acclaim. The fifth release of this series received an Opus Klassik Award in 2022.

Per Arne Glorvigen is among the foremost of today’s bandoneon players. His contact with this instrument began as late as at the age of 25 when he after having finished the State Academy of Music in Oslo, moved to Paris and met the Argentinian bandoneon maestro Juan José Mosalini.

After studying with Mosalini and after several stays in Buenos Aires, Glorvigen began his career as a professional bandoneonist. Meetings with tango legends Piazzolla, Pugliese, Salgán and close friendship with poet Horacio Ferrer were crucial.

In addition to playing tango, Glorvigen has expanded the repertoire of the bandoneon by playing everything from baroque, klezmer, pop and last but not least; contemporary music. Composers like Willem Jeths (Holland), Bernd Franke (Germany), Henrik Hellstenius (Norway) and Luis Naon (Argentina / France) have all dedicated concertos to Glorvigen. After studies with Eric Tanguy (composing) and Guillaume Connesson (orchestration) in Paris, Glorvigen also dedicates himself to composition and his works have been performed in most European countries. Commands for 2019/20/21 included pieces for the Oslo Philharmonic, The Apollon Musagète Quartet and the Arctic Sinfonietta.

Among Glorvigens musical partners we find artists as Nicolas Altstaedt, Andreas Brantelid, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Göran Sölscher, the ensemble Tango for 3, the Leipziger, Delian, Apollon Musagète and Alban Berg Stringquartets, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Staatskapelle Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestra Guiseppe Verdi Milano, the Oslo, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Copenhagen (DR) Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, the Soloists of the Orchestre de Paris and l’Orchestre National d’ile de France.

Nevertheless, his most important colleague has been violinist Gidon Kremer with whom he has recorded 4 CDs and played nearly one hundred concerts worldwide.

His main partners today are the members of the Glorvigen-Trio: violinist Daniela Braun and the doublebassist Arnulf Ballhorn.

Per Arne Glorvigen has also worked as an entertainer and comedian with language sketches as a speciality.

Recordings for Simax, Auvidis, Nonesuch, Sony Classical, Teldec, EMI Classics, and Deutsche Grammophon.