Enrique Galassi

London based Double Bass player Enrique Galassi, graduated from Trinity College of Music in 2007. A classical trained musician, his repertoire goes from Classical to Contemporary. In his hometown, Bahia Blanca (Argentina) he has played for several years at the Symphony Orchestra of the City. In London he has been performing a wide variety of orchestral and chamber repertoire since 2005. While he was a student at TCM he won the Vernon Elliot Prize for Double Bass in 2004. He has also attended master classes with Rinat Ibraguimov, Alex Henery and Corrado Canonici. In 2005 Enrique founded “Del Plata Quintet” a Tango Quintet focusing on the “Tango Nuevo” of Astor Piazzolla with who he toured around UK. Enrique has also been a professor at Dartington International Summer School (Tango Course). At present he is a member of The London Tango Orchestra and he works as a Freelance Double Bass player with Orchestras and chamber groups and he is in special demand among Tango groups and soloists. He just recently founded “The Teddington Orquesta Tipica” A school Orchestra that he conducts and is intended for people to learn the Style of Tango.