Néstor Marconi is considered one of the most important and well-known bandoneón players and musicians in the world. Since the early 1970s, his name has been associated with celebrities such as Horacio Salgán, Astor Piazzolla, Héctor Stamponi and Enrique Francini.

In the 1980s, Mr. Marconi participated in the tango-opera project “María de Buenos Aires” by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer. He accompanied Juan Carlos Copes on stages in the United States, Central America, Brazil, Uruguay, Spain, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany and Japan.

During the same period, Mr. Marconi also made important appearances in Buenos Aires. He performed with singer Frank Sinatra and the orchestra led by Don Costa. He participated in Fernando Solanas’s acclaimed film Sur with legendary tango singer Roberto Goyeneche. With his show Tanguísimo, featuring his Buenos Aires Octet and singers Roberto Goyeneche and Nelly Vazquez, Mr. Marconi toured Japan in 1988 and 1991.

In the 1990s, Mr. Marconi began appearing as a soloist on the international classical music circuit, performing Astor Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra as well as his own arrangements of tangos and his original compositions, with the following orchestras: Goteburg (Sweden), the Oslo Philharmonic (Norway), the Victoria Symphony (Australia), the Toulouse Philharmonic (France), and the Vancouver and Montreal Symphonies (Canada), as well as other groups in England, Austria and the United States. In Argentina, he has appeared with the Colón Theater’s resident orchestra, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic and the National Symphony. He has worked with maestros such as Charles Dutoit, Pedro Ignacio Calderón and Jorge García Navarro. In December 1997, Mr. Marconi toured with Yo-Yo Ma to Seattle, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington and New York to promote their CD “Soul of the Tango,” based on the music of Astor Piazzolla.

In 1998, Mr. Marconi performed in the film Tango by Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura. In 2000, he recorded and performed in the concert entitled Esperanto, by master composer Lalo Schifrin, in Cologne, Germany. He has performed with his own trio and quintet in music festivals throughout France, New Zealand, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Germany, and Brasil, as well as the city of Buenos Aires’s own International Tango Festival on many occasions. Over the course of this career, he has recorded CDs as performer, arranger and composer for Milan Sur (Argentina), Milan (France), JVC-Victor (Japan), Sony Classical and Warner Music. He is currently the guest conductor at the “Juan de Dios Filiberto: National Orchestra for Argentine Music, having performed with them at the Colón Theater in 2004. He also performed alongside the prestigious pianist Martha Argerich, conducting and appearing in an adaptation of his work “Tangos Concertantes”, with the National Symphony Orchestra under conductor Pedro Ignacio Calderón in April, 2005. He has been the director of the Tango Orchestra School since 2008.

In addition, Mr. Marconi was invited by the esteemed musician Lalo Schifrin to perform two concerts at New York’s Lincoln Center. In April 2006, he appeared as a soloist in “Argerich’s Meeting Point,” a special concert created for Ms. Argerich in Beppu, Japan. The same year, Mr. Marconi also appeared in the Buenos Aires Tango 3 Festival at Paris’ Chaillot National Theatre; in Brussels at the Beaux Arts Theatre; as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Colón Theater in Buenos Aires under Lalo Schifrin’s direction and in an homage to Astor Piazzolla.