Composer and bandoneon player Omar Massa was born in Buenos Aires in 1981. Internationally recognised as one of the leading artists in the field of Tango Nuevo and the bandoneon, he has been performing on the world’s major stages for years.
He has worked on projects with internationally renowned artists such as Plácido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann, Daniel Hope, Paquito D’Rivera, Alondra de la Parra, Guy Braunstein, Fatma Said, Pablo Ferrández and Anastasia Kobekina. Massa has also performed as a soloist with symphonic orchestras such as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchester Köln, the Asturias Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra and the Biel Symphony Orchestra, as well as numerous other orchestras in America and Europe.
He has performed in several major concert halls, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), the Berlin Konzerthaus (Germany), the George Enescu Festival (Bucharest), the CBC Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto) and the Berlin Philharmonie.
In Argentina, Massa made his debut at the age of six playing Piazzolla’s music at Café Tortoni, a famous traditional tango house in Buenos Aires, and after being nominated for the most important prize in the Argentinian record industry for his recording Tribute to Piazzolla, Astor Piazzolla’s family invited him to play Piazzolla’s bandoneon 25 years after his death – Massa is the only musician to have been allowed to do so to date.
His concerts and tours outside Argentina have been declared ‘culturally and artistically significant for the country of Argentina’ by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2023 Omar Massa was awarded the Bandoneon Prize of the city of Krefeld, Germany.