The Tosca Tango Orchestra is a joint effort between various Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 based musician

Musician

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s. Founded by Glover Gill in collaboration with The Tosca String Quartet, Chris Maresh and Justin Sherburn in 1997. The group performs original compositions in the nuevo tango

Nuevo tango

Tango Nuevo - either a form of music in which new elements are incorporated into traditional Argentine tango, or an evolution of tango dance that began to develop in the 1980s...

 style and has released six albums. Among these is the soundtrack

Soundtrack

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 to Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater

-Early life:Linklater was born in Houston, Texas. He studied at Sam Houston State University and left midway through his stint in college to work on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. While working on the rig he read a lot of literature, but on land he developed a love of film through...

’s film Waking Life

Waking Life

Waking Life is an American animated film , directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame.The film focuses on the nature of dreams, consciousness, and...

 which led to the group's international

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 following.

Waking Life OST

The soundtrack was performed and written by Glover Gill and the Tosca Tango Orchestra, except for two piece written by Frédéric Chopin and second by Julian Plaza, and was relatively successful. Featuring the nuevo tango style, it bills itself "the 21st Century Tango".

Awards and appearances

A trip to Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 in 2000 brought them critical acclaim when they were featured artists at the 5th World Tango Summit and in 2003, the Tosca Tango Orchestra performed and recorded the Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin is one of the largest classical ballet academies in the country. Each year the Ballet Austin company performs ballets from a wide variety of choreographers, including Stephen Mills....

 premiere of choreographer Stephen Mills

Stephen Mills

Under the artistic leadership of Stephen Mills, Ballet Austin has emerged as one of the nation's premiere developing ballet organizations. In his inaugural season as artistic director he attracted attention from around the United States with his world-premiere production of Hamlet, hailed in Dance...

’ Touch.

Studio albums

• La Furia Del Tango (1998)
• Amado
  Amado
  Amado may refer to:*In Japanese 雨戸 , a kind of a door used as a shelter against the rain.-Name:*Amado Crowley , Occult teacher and self proclaimed illegitimate son of Aleister Crowley-Surname:* Carlos H...
  
   (1999)
• La Ciudad del Tango (2000)
• Tia Pamelita (2000)
• Touch (2001)
• Waking Life OST
  Waking Life OST
  Waking Life OST is the official soundtrack of the film Waking Life. All tracks except numbers 6 and 9 were composed by Glover Gill and performed by the Tosca Tango Orchestra...
  
   (2001)
• UNO Tango Suite (2008)

External links

• http://toscastrings.com/ Tosca Strings Quartet Official Website
• http://www.glovertango.com/