Postcolonial Fandango is a Baroque Ensemble with an unconventional mission: to take classical music out of its elitist, Eurocentric stiffness!
With an innovative concert-format that brings together poetical story- telling and historical improvisation, this group of cowboys is ready to challenge classical listeners with humor. Since 2020, their research- based fusion between Latin American Folklore traditions and baroque dances, dazzles equally public from International Festivals like Oude Muziek Utrecht, as well as scientific audiences from research- conferences such as EPARM and Early Music America. The ensemble has been evolving in different formations, combining experienced folklore players as well as professional Performers versed in Historical Performance Practice, using authentic playing techniques and instruments, remaining faithful to both traditions.
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Camilo Arias Cuellar
Postcolonial Fandango is the result of Artistic Research carried out by Camilo Arias Cuellar, a Colombian violinist, with artistic trajectory in Germany, The Netherlands and Colombia. It was started at Royal Conservatory of The Hague during his Master-Degree in Early Music, born from the identitarian questions that came with the experience of migration. A graduated from the University of Arts of Hamburg (Classical Violin), The University of Arts Frankfurt Am Main (Historical Perfromance Practice) and Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Early Music), Camilo was a member of the Theater- Orchestra of the city of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and has performed with different Ensembles of the Early Music Movement such as The Orchestra of the 18th Century, Philippe Herreweghe, Les Arts Florissants, Bremer Barockorchester, Los Temperamentos and Holland Baroque. He was a finalist at the Herrando International Violin Competition, and has been awarded with the excellence- prizes “Hermann und Milena Ebel” and “Deutschlandstipendium".
Ivan Gianakis
Multi style percussionist & orchestra/choir conductor from Buenos Aires . Aiming to investigate and further the relationship between traditional world music and contemporary arts. Has recorded at abbey road studios, played world music with members of the silk road ensemble and performed with slagwerk den haag. La Maquina, a brand-new sign language and improvisation percussion ensemble, was founded and is led by him. Most recently performed as the soloist on Arabic percussion for the Jong Metropole.
Asako Ueda
The Japanese lutenist Asako Ueda began playing the violin when she was five years old. She studied the violin at Toho Gakuen High School and Toho Gakuen College of Music in Japan. After finishing her Bachelor, she continued at her college to study the Baroque violin with Ryo Terakado and composition with Masahiro Ishijima
Yussif Barakat
Yussif Barakat is a polyfacetic Bassist versed in the fields of early music and jazz. In 2019 he received his double Master of Music degrees in double bass and violone from the Royal Conservatoire, Den Haag. Yussif has performed with the Netherlands Bach Society, Balthasar Nuemann Choir & Ensemble, and the Orchestra of the 18th Century, amongst others. He was awarded first prize for historically informed solo at the Viennese Bass days held in Amsterdam 2019.
Claudia Velez
A musician originally from Mexico City, based in the Netherlands. Claudia plays double bass and Violone (early music instrument). She has collaborated with different baroque orchestras such as Holland Baroque and Concerto Valiante, she has worked with artists from different parts of the world working on her music combined with theater, painting and drawings, dance and even virtual reality. In 2017 she worked in an opera production from the Grachten Festival in Amsterdam and in 2021 she gave several concerts thought The Netherlands with an artistic production from the Theatre Rotterdam. Claudia also creates her artistic projects combining her unique baroque instrument with the contemporary art and needs from the current society. Claudia studied the bachelor at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the master in early music at the Royal Conservatory The Hague where she currently teaches young double bass players
Jeremy Bass
Jeremy Bass is an American classical guitarist and lutenist. He recently moved to The Hague to study early music at the Royal Conservatoire. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Kentucky and Columbus State University. Jeremy was a 2018-2019 Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, researching contemporary Spanish guitar music, and studying early music with Jesús Sánchez and Eduardo Egüez. Jeremy’s solo debut recording, “David del Puerto: Guitar Sonatas, Volume 1” is available on Orpheus Classical.