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Announcing Soon! Our Album of the Year Nominees!!!!

We want to take a moment to officially announce this year's (for 2023) SoloPiano.com Overall Album of the Year winner.

Congratulations to Juan María Solare and his album Stories Beyond Words!!

Pianist & composer Juan María Solare (Buenos Aires, 1966), an Argentine living in Germany, is one of those musicians that open scarcely travelled paths. The originality of his music stems from the confluence between post-Piazzolla tango and classical contemporary music. His singular style represents a synthesis of North and South, classical and popular, wit and melancholy. "Art music and light music are not irreconcilable extremes, but poles in a force field", wrote Solare about his musical bilingualism.

He has given over 500 piano recitals in Buenos Aires and dozens of Argentinean cities, plus Berlin, Hamburg, Istanbul, Finland, Denmark, Amsterdam, Madrid, Graz, Geneva, Seville, Texas, London... The audience at his concerts is fascinated by his quality and warmth.

Solare teaches Composition and Arrangements at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen (Germany), at which university he conducts the Orquesta no Típica. He has participated at the World Tango Summit on 3 occasions and in several Festivals for contemporary music (Ferienkurse Darmstadt; Festivals Eigenarten, Katarakt or blurred edges in Hamburg, etc.) . Juan is the editor of four piano albums for Ricordi Munich and a fifth one for Peters Verlag (Leipzig). 30 CDs by different performers include at least one piece composed by Juan María.

His music reached over 25 millions all-time streams on Spotify and has been included in editorial playlists such as Peaceful piano, Dinner Tango or The Magnificent Piano.

Listen to one of his selections on our official SoloPiano.com Spotify Playlist here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7vbphwvgPuTVZREYPp69b5?si=f549996ff2404193

This Friday at 10am, tickets for my December 12th, Holiday & Dreams Concert at the Gorgeous Sioux Falls Washington Pavilion, Belbas Theatre - will go on sale.

Link to Tickets: https://www.washingtonpavilion.org/event/matthew-mayer

There will be Premier, General, and also Student Pricing available. The concert will be held in the beautiful Belbas Theatre so seating will be limited.

25 years ago, my first CD was released. From performing in the waiting room of Canistota's Ortman Clinic, to USD's Farber Hall, to McKennan Park, and now to the Pavilion.....this is a celebration of family and friends that supported a small town kid with a dream of playing piano.

I can't wait for this night and truly hope to see you there! University of South Dakota Alumni Washington Pavilion
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