Santiago Cimadevilla

Santiago grew up in the 'Kingdom of the bandoneons' in Buenos Aires, where in the '80s it was more obvious to become a rock star than having anything to do with old-fashioned tango! So he became a guitarist, for a while ... He played in several rock bands, but later he lost his heart to the piano and went studying at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla.
Yet the fabulous destiny of Santiago lies in the Netherlands, so he emigrated at an early age to Holland, decided to become a bandoneon player and quickly assumed his career. At first he began playing the bandoneon on his own, but later he studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Leo Vervelde and Victor Hugo Villena. In the meantime he's one of Europe's most demanded bandoneon players and regularly plays with orchestras such as the Liepaja symphonic orchestra in Letland, the National Youth Orchestra from the Netherlands, the Helios Ensemble, the Nieuwegijn Symphonic Orchestra and the Dutch Blazers Ensemble, where he played compositions by Luis Bacalov, Astor Piazzolla, Kurt Weill, Daan Manneke a.o. ...
Meanwhile he started playing in groups such as Racing Club Tango, Flautango, los Taitas, Hernán Ruiz trio, Celano-Baggiani group and also with Fernandez Fierro, Marcucci's sexteto Veritango, tango Dorado, Mala Pinta, Tangarte and Trio Tangata. He also performed new pieces by young composers such as Mathis Nitschke and Juan Maria Solare and regularly accompanies Mabel Gonzalez and Beatriz Aguilar.

Besides his fabulous arrangements for symphonic orchestras, tango orchestras and other ensembles he has also an unknown talent for tuning and curing the inner bandoneon! Other left brain-talents of his: he speaks better Dutch than both the violinist and the bass player from la sieste du dromadaire together. Every 'normal' Argentinean has two identities, he as a result has three!
Exclusively and only for concerts of la sieste du dromadaire he plays twenty-three celestial seconds on the xylophone, his most underestimated and hidden talent. Not to miss!