TRIO TASIS
Bandoneon – Carmela Delgado
Piano – Emilie Aridon-Kociołek
Violin – Mathias Naon
United by an artistic bond forged over many years, Carmela Delgado, Émilie Aridon-Kociołek and Mathias Naon founded Trio Tasis in 2023. Their ambition: to explore an intimate and inventive chamber tango, drawing on classical/contemporary music, jazz, chanson and Latin American folklore. From these dialogues emerges their sound identity, dynamic and lively, shaped by the encounter between traditions and contemporary influences.
In 2025, their first album, ...Porque sí (Le Triton label), was released, the result of compositions and arrangements by Mathias Naon. Old clocks, wordless songs, kaleidoscopes, funeral rhapsodies, small sacred dances, waltzes and tangos make up this programme in which worlds intertwine, confront each other and overlap. An album in the form of a sound laboratory where Schönberg rubs shoulders with Aznavour, Piazzolla dialogues with Stravinsky, Serrat with Bartok, and where tradition and invention respond freely to each other.
The Trio Tasis has developed a sustained international activity, performing at numerous festivals and on major stages in Europe. Renowned chamber musicians and soloists, its members perform at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Radio France Auditorium, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre.
"While the home port of the three musicians of the Trio Tasis is indeed tango, whose secrets they know so well, it is above all the pleasure that is always a good companion that leads these three virtuosos to confront their practice with the worlds they love and whose culture they also possess. Listening to this album, one cannot help but think of the Mosalini/Beytelmann/ Caratini Trio, of which they are the direct heirs; and in the same way that these prestigious elders combined a tango by Balcarce with a theme by Mingus, without establishing any hierarchy between these aesthetics, these three young musicians feed their tango from the best sources, namely jazz, French chanson, but also Stravinsky and the Vienna School; This tango absorbs and regenerates them, through the magic of arrangement, a discipline that is much more creative than it seems and which falls to Mathias Naon, the ensemble's sumptuous violinist. It must be said that this trio is not simply a collection of soloists, but the sum of three chamber musicians who aspire to sound as one; with Emilie Aridon-Kociolek's imperial piano and Carmela Delgado's energetic and elegant bandoneon, rarely has today's tango been in such good hands... Laurent Valero – France