The adventure of Tanguediaduo began in 1995 following a brainwave inspired by the music of the Argentine composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla.  After Histoire du Tango, a unique original suite for flute and guitar, Tanguediaduo began the meticulous work of transcription and arrangement of a variety of music conceived by Piazzolla for various entities, reconsidered for the small group of flute and guitar. This fascinating work garnered prizes in international competitions, numerous monographic concerts and three CDs containing the music of the Argentine maestro. Many concerts of the duo have been introduced by Laura Escalada Piazzolla, wife of the composer, who was responsible for the presentation of the second CD "Soledad.” This long experience has led Tanguediaduo to investigate the music of other authors who, like Piazzolla, take inspiration from their traditional music to create an extremely personal and malleable language. The latest CD of the duo, "Joyful departure" contains original music and arrangements of pieces written by Ralph Towner, Egberto Gismonti, Terry Riley, Alfredo Speranza and Astor Piazzolla himself. The concert programs of the duo also feature original pages of 1900’s and contemporary music.

"I have known Tanguediaduo for many years and I have always esteemed its great devotion to work as well as its artistic feeling for the music of the maestro Astor Piazzolla. Today, as never before, I wish to express my appreciation of its talent, the trough knowledge of its instruments and its personality. Claudio Farinone is an excellent guitarist endowed with a superb and delicate technique. So is Barbara Tartari, whose phrasing is so refined just as the music of Astor Piazzolla requires. I wish you record a huge success and look forward to you future, outstanding works."

Laura Escalada Piazzolla

Since 1995, Barbara Tartari and Claudio Farinone have performed concerts and musicological research on the repertory of Astor Piazzolla, dedicating entire concert programs and receiving a warm reception everywhere. Winners of national and international awards, they participate in many seminars and conferences on the music of the Argentine maestro.  With this repertory, they held more than one hundred concerts throughout Italy and abroad and hosted television and radio broadcasts (Italian Swiss Radio, Radio Municipal Buenos Aires, Teleticino, etc.). In 1997, they published "Street Tango" for the Rivoalto label, their first CD dedicated completely to Astor Piazzolla. In 1998, they participated in a concert tour organized by the Astor Piazzolla International Foundation of Buenos Aires presided over by Laura Escalada Piazzolla, wife of the maestro. At the same time, they were invited to a direct radio broadcast at Radio Municipal of Buenos Aires and were received by the Italian ambassador in Argentina, who emphasized the cultural importance of the initiative. It included many important personalities of the Argentine culture, including writers Ernesto Sabato and Horacio Ferrer, director Pino Solanas and the literary Lunfardo expert Josè Gobello. They attended a workshop with Fernando Suarez Paz, a violinist with Piazzolla for more than fifteen years, which praised the musical interpretation and creative work of Tanguedia Duo. Since 1999, they have held radio and television concerts and broadcasts with the special presence of Laura E. Piazzolla. In May 2000, the KLE record label published their secondo cd with the title "Soledad," completely dedicated to the Argentine maestro.  At the time of this recording, Laura E. Piazzolla accompanied Tanguedia Duo on an introductory tour in Italy. The Bulgarian guitarist-composer Atanas Ourkouzounov dedicated to Tanguedia Duo a composition with the title "Partite Variate n.1.” In 2010, Tanguediaduo published its third disk with music of Astor Piazzolla, Ralph Towner, Egberto Gismonti, Terry Riley, and Alfredo Speranza. Currently, Tanguediaduo, in addition to its original repertory for flute and guitar, is studying composers who, like Piazzolla, begin with traditional music, developing it through the forms and procedures of cultured composition and the sound explorations of today’s music.