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Piazzolla da Camera, Release June, 2018


Piazzolla da Camera. Centaur Records CRC 3628. Carla Kountoupes, violin, Andrew Nickles, cello, Oscar Macchioni, piano.


"This remarkable trio performs with grand mastery, expressing the drama and pathos, passion and power of Piazzolla’s breath- taking music...Their fiery, sexy and very polished performances join tradition with a refined approach to the interpretation of Piazzolla’s music: a whole world of tango that is wild, tender, caressing, brutal and melancholic. Their performance will steal everybody’s heart." María Susana Azzi, Piazzolla's biographer.



LAtin-American Duos, Release October 9, 2015



Latin-American Duos. Centaur Records CRC 3423. Mark Schuppener, violin, Oscar Macchioni, piano.


"Schuppener and Macchioni are an expert duo. They play as one, and are fully in sympathy with this style of music. Phillip Scott, Fanfare,


Mostly Tangos Piano Music from the Americas, Released 2009



Mostly Tangos: Piano Music from the Americas. Eroica Records JDT 3442. Oscar Macchioni, piano.


"He plays these endlessly evocative works with understanding and seeming ease—bringing out their lovely melodies, finding tempos that seem quite right, and expertly balancing their wit, gravity, and passion." Barry Kilpatrick, American Record Guide.



The Tango in american piano music.
Published 2010


Cultural Expressions in Music, College Music Society.


"In this volume, Dr. Oscar Macchioni elucidates with native fluency and expert pianistic insight the influence of Argentine Tango in the piano works of six American composers: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, David Jaggard, Chester Biscardi, and William Bolcom. The Tango in American Piano Music is at once vivid and erudite, and makes an important contribution to the literature for scholars and performers."


Ernest Widmer's kosmos latinoamericano.
Published, American Music Teacher february/march 2011.



Those looking for Latin American repertoire for the elementary to intermediate level should consider Kosmos Latinoamericano. Oscar Macchioni describes this eclectic collection of 146 pieces organized in four volumes ranging from the beginner to the intermediate/advance level.



Mark Schuppener (violin), Oscar Macchioni (piano)