Martin Jurado

Martín Jurado is an Argentine pianist, arranger, and composer specializing in tango. His work brings together performance, teaching, and research, with a particular focus on the study and recovery of the genre's historical repertoire. He holds a degree in Music from the National University of La Plata, where he is the head of the Tango Department, and has also taught at the Manuel de Falla Higher Conservatory of Music and the Buenos Aires Tango Educational Center (CETBA). His background includes a diploma in Tango Music and Poetics from the National University of the Arts and a postgraduate degree in Social and Political History of Argentine Tango from FLACSO.

Throughout his career, he has performed as a soloist and with various ensembles, giving concerts and touring throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. An important part of his work is dedicated to musical research and transcription. Together with pianist Adrián Enríquez, he published "Los pianistas del tango," a project focused on the recovery of historical piano performances, to which "Los pianistas del tango: Milonga" was later added. He has also participated in research on the orchestras of the "Guardia Nueva" and collaborated with the Carlos Vega National Institute of Musicology on arrangement projects for the music of Astor Piazzolla.

This line of research continues in "Julio De Caro - Transcriptions for Sextet", a project dedicated to recovering the original arrangements of Julio De Caro's sextet between 1924 and 1928, a fundamental period in the musical transformation of tango. Based on the original recordings, Jurado reconstructs and transcribes the repertoire for an ensemble equivalent to the historical sextet, in which he participates as pianist and director. The album brings together nine compositions, including "Mala junta", "Flores negras", "Tierra querida", "Boedo", "El monito" and "Loca bohemia", offering a new recording of an essential stage of De Caro's work.