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Argentine born René Casarsa has been a resident of Houston for over 20 years. René has alternated his engineering profession in the oil industry with his passion for the music of Buenos Aires. Sponsored by “Casa Argentina de Houston” at a fund raising event for charity activities he presented “Anthology of Tango” in 1999. The success of that first program, complemented in the narratives by another Argentine born and Houston resident, Claudio Manzolillo, made it possible to take the program to other cities such as New Orleans (Tulane University) and Corpus Christi (Del Mar College) and Texas A&M (Warren Theater.) In 2002 and again in 2005 and earlier this year René paid tribute to the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges and the music of Astor Piazzolla in very successful recitals at the University of St. Thomas’ Jones Hall and Corpus Christi's Warren Theatre. René began his piano lessons at the age of 6 in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina. Throughout a decade of classical music studies he offered several recitals of European and Argentine composers. At age 16, he joined an octet dedicated to the traditional repertoire of the music of Buenos Aires. René moved to La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, in pursuit of an engineering degree, yet devoting his musical talent to the new tango styles championed by Horacio Salgán and Astor Piazzolla, and alternating it with his then emerging interest in jazz. His career as an engineer began in Argentina and took him to many corners of the world -US, Africa, Middle East, UK, China -where he charmed countless audiences with the rhythm and cadenza of tango.
Rene Casarsa on Houston Public Radio on September 14, 2005 (streaming
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