Lloica Czackis (voice) was born in Germany in 1973 to Argentinian parents and grew up in Venezuela. She studied singing and choral conducting in Buenos Aires and completed her training at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London under Vera Rosza and David Pollard, supported by British Council scholarship. With a repertoire that extends from the Renaissance to the avant-garde, she appeared in the main European festivals of contemporary music with the New London Chamber Choir, also as a soloist. She has given numerous recitals of vocal chamber music in Buenos Aires and Europe. Since 1999 Lloica conceives and performs programmes on Latin American and European 20^th Century music, cabaret and tango. Her Millennium Award-winning show Tangele: The Pulse of Yiddish Tango, with musical arrangements by Maestro Gustavo Beytelmann, continues to be featured in festivals across Europe, the USA and South America, since its London première in 2002. In 2003 she created Terezín Karussell with David Bloch on piano, a recital of tangos, art and cabaret songs by Terezín composers, first presented at the Brundibár Festival in Manchester, UK, and then repeated in England, France and Argentina. In addition to her musical career, Lloica researches the Yiddish tango: in 2005 she completed a DEA (MPhil) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research has been published in English and Spanish. Her lastest CD is "Le Grand Tango" with the UK-based group El Ultimo Tango.

Juan Lucas Aisemberg (viola) was born to an Argentinian family in Budapest in 1967 and grew up in Italy. He studied in Rome under Lina Pettinelli; in Gstaad, Switzerland, at the International Menuhin Music Academy under Alberto Lysy; in Berlin at the Hochschule der Künste under Bruno Giuranna, graduating with full marks and honours; and in Cologne at the Hochschule für Musik with the Amadeus Quartett. As a member of the Camerata Lysy, he has performed in the most important international music festivals, both as soloist and in chamber music groups. He has worked as an orchestral musician at the Deutsche Oper of Berlin since 1993. Juan Lucas is a founding member of the NoviTango x 4 ensemble. With it he has performed all over Europe and South America, recorded five CDs and performed with artists such as Richard Galliano, Lina Sastri, Pablo Mainetti and Maximiliano Guerra. Very important for his musical development was meeting with the Jazz vibraphonist Oli Bott, with whom he has worked intensively on musical improvisation. He has recorded for the labels Oriente Music and Pool Classic of Berlin, ZC Music Group of New York and Cascavelle of Friburg, Switzerland.

Ivo De Greef (piano) was born in Belgium in 1976 and started playing the piano at the age of 6. He developed a wider interest in contemporary music in 1994 whilst playing Maderna and Webern at the Ars Musica Festival. During his studies at the Brussels Conservatory with Jan Michiels, a pupil of Hans Leygraf, Ivo toured Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany with La Squadra, performing Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera Cinderella. He then furthered his studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) with Philip Martin, and he gave the world première of Joe Cutler’s First Piano Concerto, developing a mutual friendship with the composer that resulted in his participation in the new music ensemble Noszferatu, featuring regularly on BBC Radio 3 since 2001. Ivo also appeared in the 2002 award-winning West-End play Humble Boy by Catherine Jones. Living permanently in Paris since 2003, he has been pursuing his other passion: tango. Coached by tango-masters and Piazzolla’s musicians Juan Jose Mosalini and Gustavo Beytelmann, Ivo has appeared with different tango ensembles, including his own group Revirado, with violinist Caroline Pearsall, and the Mala Pinta quartet. He has performed at milongas, concerts and festivals throughout the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, France and Australia. In 2002, he took part in a television program celebrating the great argentine dancer Juan Carlos Copes, and appeared live on Radio 4 (Holland). Ivo is currently the pianist of the newly founded Parisian quintet El Después with Victor Villena on bandoneón and Alejandro Schwarz on guitar.

Gustavo Beytelmann (piano, arrangements) was born in Argentina in 1945. After graduating from the Senior Musical Institute (University of Rosario), he went on to study composition with Francisco Kröpfl, in Buenos Aires. Staying on the Argentine capital, Beytelmann became an arranger and musical director for Microfon Company. During this time, he also wrote over three dozen film scores, including those of La Mafia, Quebracho and Los Gauchos Judíos. In 1976 he settled in Paris to work as a pianist and composer. A year later, he played with Astor Piazzolla on the latter’s European tour. Then, from 1981 to 1992, he played in a number of venues throughout Europe and America with the Mosalini-Beytelmann-Caratini trio. Over the years, Gustavo Beytelmann has composed for Italian TV and cinema (Immacolatta et Concetta, by Salvatore Piscitelli, 1980, Grand Prix at the Locarno festival) and for French cinema (Sin querer, by Ciro Cappelari, 1997. His compositions are played regularly in France. In 1996 he was appointed artistic manager of the Rotterdam Conservatoire’s Tango Department. His latest recordings are Tango à la Duke (1997), dedicated to Duke Ellington, and An Argentinian at the Louvre (2001).

Joëlle Rouland was born in Paris in 1947. She is an actress, stage director, and playwright. Her shows are performed in France, Germany Italy, and Chile…