The Yale Tango Orchestra was formed in the fall of 2006 after a series of DJing and music appreciation classes organized by Tine Herreman at the Yale Tango Club.
We believe that live tango performances for dancing in recent years have been overly influenced by Piazzolla, which has resulted in music that is not very suitable for social dancing.  We feel that it is important that musicians approach the music they perform from a dancer's perspective. The members of the YTO are all milongueros and our main goal is to provide music that is well suited for dancing at clubs and milongas in a style that is somewhat similar to that of the tango orchestras of the "golden age" of tango, while at the same time adding a flavor of our own.

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Orchestra composition

Gustavo Fernandez, orchestra director, guitar
Linda Alila, piano
Linnea Weiss, cello
Hermes Huang, violin
Gwendolyn Bradford, violin
Frances Elliott, flute
Markus Centola, accordeon

Musician bios

Gustavo Fernandez is originally from Mendoza, Argentina, where he obtained his licenciate degree in classical guitar performance from the Cuyo National University in 2004.  He is currently completing his Master's degree in classical guitar at The Hartt School of music, studying with Richard Provost.

Linda Alila hails from Philadelphia, where she first started playing tango piano two years ago.  She co-founded a tango duo/trio with Marcelo Kazanietz on bandoneon and Irina Schuck on violin, respectively.  She credits Emilio Teubal and Evan Griffiths for showing her the ropes.  Linda is pursuing a master's degree at the Yale School of Public Health.

more bios coming soon...

Gigs

The Yale Tango Orchestra is about ready to go public. They have played for our dancers at the Yale Sunday practica and are scheduled to play there again, as well as at our upcoming milonga. Stay tuned!

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