“Omar Massa lives and breathes Tango”
Daniel Hope (WELT – Germany)
Composer and bandoneon player Omar Massa was born in Buenos Aires in 1981 and has been based in Berlin since 2019. Internationally acclaimed as one of the leading artists on Tango Nuevo and the bandoneon, he received several “Opus Klassik”, “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik” and “International Classical Music Awards” nominations in Europe, as Composer of the Year and Instrumentalist of the Year.
He has participated in projects with internationally renowned artists such as Placido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann, Daniel Hope, Paquito D’Rivera, Guy Braunstein, Alondra de La Parra, Fatma Said, Pablo Ferrandez, Bruno Delepelaire, Alexis Cardenas, Ute Lemper, Sarah McKenzie, Kai Strobel among others, and participated in recordings for important labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical.
In 2023 Omar was awarded with the Bandoneon Prize by the city of Krefeld, Germany (city where the Bandoneon was invented). His tours have been declared of ‘Cultural and Artistic importance to the country of Argentina’ by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
