'You guys play like Argentinians!' the enthousiastic audience said during the Festival Buenos Aires Tango in 2006. A bigger compliment will and can hardly be given by an Argentinian to a foreign tango ensemble. This proved to Trio Tincho that their approach to the instrumental Argentinian tango music had been following the right way!
Trio Tincho was founded in 1998, but ever since they attracted the virtuoso Argentinian guitar player Ezequiel Menalled in 2004, an impulse of quality has been leading them to their current level of playing. Trio Tincho like to play tango the way the people of Argentina like to see it: rhythmically, dynamically, with a slightly pushing tempo, meant to be danced on. But with the same ease, they let a listening audience dream away on magical and lyrical compositions.
The repertoire of Trio Tincho is largely based upon the 'classic' names like Troilo, Grela and Pugliese. Besides, they play their own compositions and transcriptions of more recent maestro's like Piazzolla and they keep the audience sharp by taking surprising steps into more folcloristic styles like zamba's or chacarera's by Yupanquí.
By the end of July 2007 Trio Tincho was invited by and played together with the Netherlands' most wellknown bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof in the Great Hall of the famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The success of this event became an important sign for this enthousiastic trio, because it represented so much the recognition of Trio Tincho in their own country.