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2019 CHE BANDONEON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS

1st Place Fabrizio Colombo (Argentina)
2nd Place Hitoshi Hiranuma (Japan)
3rd Place Alex Roitman (USA)


2018 CHE BANDONEON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS

1st Place Sami Pirttilahti (Finland)
2nd Place Hitoshi Hiranuma (Japan)
3rd Place Alex Roitman (USA)


2017 CHE BANDONEON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS

1st Place Rodolfo Marcelo Zanetti Vía (Argentina/USA)
2nd Place Yukie Kawanami (Japan)
3rd Place Guido Gavazza (Argentina)
Honorable Mention Sami Pirttilahti (Finland)


2016 CHE BANDONEON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS

1st Place Javier Sánchez (Argentina)
2nd Place Rodolfo Marcelo Zanetti Vía (Argentina/USA)
3rd Place Michael Dolak (Germany)


2015 CHE BANDONEON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS


1st Place Yukie Kawanami (Japan)
2nd Place Ben Bogart (USA)
3rd Place Erskine Maytorena (USA)
Honorable Mention Ben Thomas (USA)

The Che Bandoneon International Competition is open to any bandoneon player over 18 years of age. The competition is hosted by the Stowe Tango Music Festival and sponsored by the Argentine Tango Society. The Competition’s mission is to discover bandoneon talent and to promote and nurture artistic excellence in tango music worldwide.

Based on a Youtube audition, we invite four international finalists to join the festival’s Tango Academy program to work with the Stowe Tango Music Festival Orchestra for the week. For the finals of the competition, each finalist performs a bandoneon solo and the lead bandoneon part of two tango works in the style of orquesta típica.





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