TANGO MISTERIO up to date:
28.06.2025 19.30 oclock Open-air concert during the Elbhang
Festival in the Weinbergkirche Dresden-Pillnitz. Tango in the vineyard for
dancing (floor or meadow), listening and enjoying while tasting wine. Organised
by the Weinbergkirche as part of the Elbhangfest 2025. Admission free - a
generous donation is appreciated. Venue: Weinbergkirche, Bergweg 3 01326
Dresden-Pillnitz (access on foot only, steps, not barrier-free). There are no
parking spaces directly on the grounds of the Weinbergkirche.
29.06.2025 15.30 oclock Open-air concert during the Elbhang
Festival in the parish garden of Maria am Wasser in
Dresden-Hosterwitz-Pillnitz. Dancing is allowed on the lawn. Admission free - a
generous collection is appreciated. Organiser and location: Maria am Wasser,
Kirchgasse 6, 01326 Dresden-Hosterwitz-Pillnitz.
22.08.2025 (evening, time to follow) Show and concert in
the Marienkirche in Dessau.
23.08.2025 22:00 and 23:00 Open-air concert with show for
the Dornburg Castle Night. Tickets for the entire Schlössernacht are available
from the Ticketshop Thüringen.
TANGO MISTERIO - Life on stage
In year 2004, Anja Konjen founded the orchestra together with Claudia (accordion).
Over the years, the line-up has changed and expanded. Today TANGO MISTERIO performes with a regular cast of six musicians. We come from Upper Lusatia, Belarus and Argentina.
We share a love for the precision of baroque music as well as an openness to creative, new and modern inspirations. Tango reflects a wide range of influences. From the beginnings and development of different cultures and rhythms of immigrants in the harbour districts of Argentina and Uruguay, to the ‘golden age’ of tango in the 1920s and 1930s, which many consider to be the real tango, to the genius of Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla with his modern reinterpretation and the founding of tango nuevo in the 1950s. Not to be unmentioned should be contemporary musicians who are passionate about tango and who still characterise the music today.
We are delighted to be part of the preservation of the cultural heritage of Tango Argentino. And we celebrate creativity and development in music. We play, we interpret and we compose ourselves. We teach and create. We live in the music. We live tango on stage.
In February 2017, as part of a joint concert series with our befriended Orquesta Municipal de Tango La Plata, we were awarded Honorary Citizenship of the city of La Plata (Argentina) by the mayor of the city. We are proud of this, as it is a measure of the authenticity of our music. And it is a bridge to the distant homeland Argentina. Just as emigrants from Europe became part of the Argentine Tango back then, we would like to share a piece of the Argentine feeling of home with immigrants from Argentina and anyone else who is interested.
TANGO MISTERIO, these are:
Piano - Anja Konjen
Violin - Katrin Wehle
Vocal/Guitar - Adriana Macchi
Double Bass - Bettina Wintzen
Cello - Helfried Knopsmeier
Bandoneon - Wladimir Artimowitsch
Recurring and permanent guests:
Percussion - Wenzel Konjen
In instrumentations from a duo to the full ensemble with guest musicians, we enrich your milonga, your concert evening, your celebrations or your event. If requested, we can also bring amplifier and lightning equipment.
Anja Konjen - Piano
Diploma musician, correpetitor, soloist, piano teacher. Studied classical piano at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden with a focus on piano pedagogy and correpetition. Masters piano and harpsichord equally brilliant. Head of the Department of Keyboard Instruments of the County Music School in Bautzen. Teaches mainly piano and correpetition. Works regularly with soloists, played with the Sorbian National Ensemble, was a co-founder and harpsichordist in the Pezelius Ensemble.
Adriana Macchi - Vocals/Guitar
Study of administration, singer. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Studied administrative sciences at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Buenos Aires. Has sung Argentinian folklore up to the traditional competition Cosquin, performed with different groups, sings, plays piano and guitar, and dances contemporary. Lives in Görlitz since 2005.
Katrin Wehle - Violin
Diploma musician, orchestral musician, violin teacher. Studied at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar. Teaches
violin at the County Music School in Bautzen. Played in the Neue
Lausitzer Philharmonie and in the Sorbian National Ensemble, played in
the Philharmonic Orchestra Cottbus, and was engaged as a baroque
violinist in the Pezelius Ensemble.
Bettina Wintzen - Double Bass
Diploma musician, solist and orchestral musician, double bass teacher
Studied at the Rostock Academy of Music and Theatre.
Helfried Knopsmeier - Cello
Diploma musician, composer and arranger, solo cellist, cello teacher. Studied cello at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Plays
as a solo cellist in the Sorbian National Ensemble, plays in various
chamber music formations. Teaches cello at the County Music School
Bautzen.
Wladimir Artimowitsch - Bandoneon
Diploma concert soloist, teacher, conductor. Studied
at the State Academy of Music Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Lunatscharski in
Minsk and at the music college Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakov in
Mogiljow. Plays at the State Operetta Dresden, at the duo Akkordeon
Virtuosi, Heads the orchestra and music club Akkamerata e.V., as well as
the Dresden Accordeon Society e.V. Was engaged at the Sorbian National
Ensembleand the Gerhardt-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz. Foundet the accordion orchestra Lad and was a lecturer at the University of Culture in Minsk. Lives in Dresden since 2002.