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Our Team

Leading Artists – Composers – Filmmakers – Visual Artists & Dancers

Artistic Director
Patricia Bossio

Patricia has worked as an Artistic director and producer for over 20 years, initially setting up a venue dedicated to chamber music in Buenos Aires attracting leading international talent from Latin America, the ex-Soviet Union and Europe. In 1997 she moved to London to start a new life and joined Birkbeck College’s Spanish and Latin American Studies. It was during lectures that the idea of Dreaming Cities was born. In 2006 she started Transtango – Urban Encounters. Through this project she hoped to encourage artistic exchange between the UK and Latin America by setting up collaborations with leading artists on both sides of the Atlantic. Patricia combines and enhances her work as curator /collaborator of the Transtango and Dreaming Cities project with post graduate studies at Birkbeck. Patricia researches and develops themes of hybridity and migration at the same
time in a practical way, considering the ways in which performance and installations can engage and communicate these ideas.

Video Artist, Editor
Adam Finch

Adam Finch Film Editor who’s work spans Drama, Documentary and Art.
His work includes the critically acclaimed Feature Film Innocence (“…a once-in-a-lifetime piece of cinema” – BBC), which won the Bronze Horse at Stockholm, and An Organization of Dreams, (“…stunningly beautiful and brilliantly edited…” – Sight and Sound) by Director Ken McMullen.
In 1996 began a long and ongoing collaboration as Film Editor for Artist Isaac Julien, on a series of multi-screen works as the triptych The Long Road to Mazatlan, earned the Artist a Turner Prize nomination. Adam also collaborated on In 2010 nine-screen epic Ten Thousand Waves that has been added to the permanent collection at MOMA. (“I cannot get this work out of my mind.” – Glenn Lowry, MOMA). Their collaboration was also present at the Venice Biennale.
A wide range of Documentary Films. Peter Green – Back for Good earned a RTS Best Editor nomination and the Feature doc. STORYVILLE – BaadAsssss Cinema, (“It doesn’t come any better than this.” – Hollywood Reporter). A long running association with BBC Horizon, (21 films), culminated in HORIZON – PARALLEL UNIVERSES, which represented Horizon to win a BAFTA for Best Documentary Strand and The Ghost of Shergar for BAFTA winning Director Alison Millar and the feature documentary, The Man Behind the Microphone, which premiered at IDFA.

Composer and cellist
Jorge Bosso

His music ranges from chamber works to orchestral and choral compositions. He has received commissions from many festivals and institutions as Festival Martha Argerich (Lugano, Switzerland), Festival Sakharov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Fondazione I Solisti di Pavia (Italy), Serate Musicali (Italy), Viena Opera, Winter Festival (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), Festival Biblico (Italy) to name but a few. His compositions have been performed in Russia, Austria, England, Switzerland, Israel, Turkey, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Croatia, USA, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Argentina among others.

Proposing a different perspective of his  hometown music, Bosso conceived Tangos at an Exhibition! for his ensemble BossoConcept (recorded on CD/DVD at LimenMusic studios in 2016) and a very personal version for cello and strings of Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas performed by Enrico Dindo and I Solisti di Pavia,  released by DECCA.

As a cellist Jorge had perform with artists as Dora Schwarzberg, Ivry Gitlis, Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein, some of these performances have been released by EMI.

During 2012 the RSI, Rete Due, (Italian Swiss Radio) produced and broadcasted Bosso’s cycle of 20 radio programmes Alla Ricerca del Tango Perduto. On December 2018 Bosso made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper. On 2019 Bosso is recording at LimenMusic studios a new album entirely dedicated to his music for cello.

Badoneonist and composer
Marcelo Nisinman

“…Nisinman, an enigmatic half smile playing around his lips he coaxed chromatic impossibilities from the tangle of buttons and fingers at his left hand and lower, throatier lines from the right. “ The Independent, UK. Born in Buenos Aires, Marcelo, is an internationally renowned bandoneon player, composer and arranger, taking bandoneon playing and the Tango to a new level. Nisinman is much in demand as a soloist playing with orchestras and at festivals around the world. He has performed with, Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, the Britten Sinfonia, Gary Burton, Fernando Suarez Paz, Assad Brothers, and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit. He has appeared as a soloist with the WDR Big Band under Vince Mendoza, the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire conducted by John Axelrod and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Belgrad, amongst others. His compositions are diverse and original with their origins in Buenos Aires, and breaks the traditions and rules of the ‘Musica Porteña’ (music from Buenos Aires).

Director Filmmaker
Henry Singer

Henry Singer is one of Britain’s most critically acclaimed documentary directors. He has won or been nominated for every major British documentary award, including the BAFTA,Royal Television Society, Grierson, Broadcast and Broadcasting Press Guild as well as an international Emmy,and his films have been screened at festivals around the world.Among his prize-winning feature length films are ‘The Falling Man’ about a photograph of someone who jumped or fell from the World Trade Center on 9/11; ‘Diana, 7 Days’; “Baby P The Untold Story”;’The Blood of the Rose, about the brutal murder conservationist Joan Root in Kenya. Among others. He does not just observe his subjects but seeks to take us inside them, to live with them and make us see their perspectives.’ Singer was also selected as one of fourteen American and British filmmakers profiled in ‘This Much Is True.Mr. Singer is presently editing his film on ‘The Trial of Ratko Mladic’, the Bosnian Serb general recently convicted of genocide, commissioned by the BBC, PBS Frontline, WDR Germany and VPRO Holland, and is supported by the Sundance Institute, Doc Society, the Bertha Foundation among others.
Broadcast Magazine has named Singer one of the top ten directors working in British television:
‘Singer is perhaps the most intimate, sensitive filmmaker working today”

Cellist
Eduardo Vassallo

Born in Buenos Aires began his cello and chamber music studies in the Argentinian capital and later completed them at the Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland where his teachers included Radu Aldulescu on cello and Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy. Later he studied with Boris Pergamenschikow. Since 1989 Eduardo has been Principal Cello of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He is one of the founding directors of the Birmingham Ensemble and also teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music where he has participated in many Cello Festivals hosted by the RNCM. As a soloist he has given recitals throughout Europe and South America and has appeared as soloist with various orchestras. Eduardo has given the world premiere of Piazzolla’s ‘El Grand Tango’ for cello and piano

Clarinettist
Ivana Zecca

Ivana Zecca performs artistic and professional activities on the basis of the principles she believes in: culture as a set of relationships and meanings whose nature grows and expands through spaces of communication without borders. Therefore, she created and participated in numerous projects, both in the artistic and organizational fields. Long-term programs, based on many years of experience, conform her thought and daily gesture.

Her repertoire covers a wide range of compositions written for solo clarinet and chamber music, from Mozart till Copland concertos, from Schumann, Brahms till Debussy. Her interests are also very much inclined towards other musical expressions, as klezmer and tango.

Film Co-director and Editor
Anna Price

Anna began editing in 1995 and has worked across a wide variety of documentary genres. Specialising in complex narrative and human drama told with flair, precision, and emotional punch, her films have won many awards. Most recently, ‘Tokyo Idols’ (feature documentary) was in the Official Selection for Sundance 2017 and ‘The Trial of Ratko Mladic’ is currently touring film festivals worldwide. In 2018 she was a BAFTA nominee in ‘Editing, Factual’.

Having always been inspired by movement and music, in the late 1990’s Anna began to dance tango in London milongas. She remains a passionate advocate of tango as an expressive art form in all its dimensions.

Pianist and Composer
John Turville

John Turville has developed a reputation as ‘one of the leading jazz pianists of his generation’ (Ian Mann). He has recorded three albums as a leader (the most recent featuring the world-renowned Julian Arguelles) which have won multiple awards including MOJO’s #3 Jazz Album of the Year, and ‘Best Album’ in the Parliamentary Awards 2011, the 2009 PRS Promoter’s Choice Award and ‘Best Instrumentalist’ in the 2010 London Jazz Awards.

Dancer
Antonio Luppi

Born in Buenos Aires in 1988 into a family of artists. He trained as a classical ballet dancer with the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid. His versatility as a dancer lead him to work in Spain with such artists as Dani Pannullo, and he presented works in France with Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Thierry Malandin and Blanca Li.

He returned to Argentina in 2013 to become a member of the esteemed Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he still works.