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'''Szymsia Bajour''' (Born Szymon Bachórz) (April 4 [[1928]], [[Nasierowo Górne]] or [[Nasielsk]], [[Poland]] - February 8, [[2005]], [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]]) was a Jewish Polish-Argentine violinist who was popular for both his popular and classical repertoires.<ref>http://www.lanacion.com.ar/678584-adios-al-maestro-de-musica</ref> His tango career made him famous as |
'''Szymsia Bajour''' (Born Szymon Bachórz) (April 4 [[1928]], [[Nasierowo Górne]] or [[Nasielsk]], [[Poland]] - February 8, [[2005]], [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]]) was a Jewish Polish-Argentine violinist who was popular for both his popular and classical repertoires.<ref>http://www.lanacion.com.ar/678584-adios-al-maestro-de-musica</ref> His tango career made him famous as '''Simón Bajour'''.<ref>http://www.discepolintango.com.ar/musicosycantantes/pages/bajour.html</ref> |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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Revision as of 23:40, 7 August 2014
Szymsia Bajour (Born Szymon Bachórz) (April 4 1928, Nasierowo Górne or Nasielsk, Poland - February 8, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Jewish Polish-Argentine violinist who was popular for both his popular and classical repertoires.[1] His tango career made him famous as Simón Bajour.[2]
Biography
His father Szmuel (d. October 10, 1951) sent Szymon as a child to the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw where he studied under Wilhelm Krysztal. He left with his parents in 1937 for Argentina where his father had previously lived and been naturalized, and Szymsia later studied under David Oistrakh in Moscow in 1963 and previously with Ljerko Spiller in Buenos Aires.
Bajour was an original member of the musical quintet of Astor Piazzolla together with Jaime Gosis, Kicho Díaz and Horacio Malvicino recording the first recording of the song Adiós Nonino. He wa sthe first violin for Los Solistas de Buenos Aires and also played in the tango orchestra of Osvaldo Pugliese, Carlos Di Sarli, Atilio Stampone, Leopoldo Federico and Miguel Caló.
Bajour began in the Argentine Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional served as first violin for the permanent orchestra of the Teatro Colón. He worked in the Orquesta Sinfónica de La Habana between 1961–67 and later with the Orquesta de Jóvenes Músicos de la Argentina, the Universidad de San Juan, the Filarmónica de las Américas, the Sinfónica del Estado de México and the orchestra of the Universidad Nacional de Veracruz where he was exiled from 1976-1980.[3]
Between 1983-1992 he was a part of the chamber duo Bajour-Antognazzi, interpreting the complete cycle of the Sonatas by Beethoven for violín and piano.
He served as musical instructor for violinists such as Daniel Zisman, Alejandro Rutkauskas, Pablo Agri, Pablo Saraví and Luis Favero.
In 2009, he was awarded the Premio Konex posthumously.[4]
In 1950 he was married to María Teresa Duro "Totona", with whom he had two children, Cecilia and then Claudio. He also had two children—Leo and Zully—from a previous marriage.
He was one of a group of prominent Jewish tango musicians, including Julio Jorge Nelson, Carlos Aguirre, Raúl Kaplún and Ismael Spitalnik.
References
- Julio Nudler,Tango judío. Del ghetto a la milonga, Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1998.
- Ricardo Feierstein, Historia de los judíos argentinos, Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires, 2006