Gamma is a prominent Slovenian tango quintet that performs romantic and contemporary music by various well-known European romantic composers and important tango authors (mainly Astor Piazzolla’s tango nuevo). In addition, the Gamma Quintet plays music and transcriptions by a young Slovenian composer Leon Firšt, who composed 15 pieces especially for Gamma. These are mostly a fusion of music styles such as etno and jazz music and his typical composing approach. Moreover, he also composed an operetta for the Gamma Quintet, a string quartet and three vocal soloists.
In 4 years since the establishment of the quintet, they have had more than 120 concerts in Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Germany. Among others, they also performed at the Diabelli Summer Festival in Mattsee in Austria, Novska Festival in Croatia and as a part of the Jumum project in Bad Ischl and Eggenfelden. In 2009, “Novi tednik” named them the most popular music group in Celje and 2 years after that achievement, they recorded their first CD and later worked with outstanding Slovenian musicians such as: Nuška Drašček, Matjaž Stopinšek, Goran Bojčevski, Lina Rahne, Jana Kvas, Celje string orchestra, Miha Žgank and many others.
In 2012, the Gamma Quintet is going to have a Slovenian tour with their new jazz project. Soon after that, they are planning to start rehearsing for a performance of Astor Piazzolla’s opera “Maria de Buenos Aires” and are also going to have a bunch of concerts with their standard repertoire in Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Macedonia and France.
