Stone Room Concerts @ Hill Center Featuring Arco & Aire: Contemporary Tango Music
Featuring Bandoneonist, Heyni Solera and Cellist Maxfield Wollam-Fisher
For the past seven years, Heyni Solera and Maxfield Wollam-Fisher have been actively working together in bringing live tango music to the Washington D.C. area through their performances with Da Capo Tango. Their collaboration led to their unique instrumentation as a cello/bandoneon duo. This dynamic duo focuses on playing tangos not commonly played on the dance floor and tangos written by composers who are alive today. Their mission is to foster a sense of community and collaboration between tango musicians, organizers, and dancers. They also provide outreach to new audiences that may not be aware of tango’s resurgence by working with directors and artists from other genres. In 2021, Arco & Aire released their first EP, Overture, whose track, “La Bordona” won the Best Latin Song for the 2022 Wammie Awards. In the summer of 2024 they released their first full album, Una Noch.
About Heyni Solera: Praised for her “soulful bandoneón” (Washington Classical Review), Heyni Solera is a sought after bandoneonist in Washington, D.C. Heyni has enjoyed a career in the US and abroad performing in Argentina, Canada and Australia and collaborating with prominent tango artists such as Ramiro Boero, Julian Peralta, Pablo Jaurena, Santiago Segret, Pedro Giraudo and many more. In 2019, Heyni was a member of the Argentine tango orchestra schools La Orquesta de Tango de la Una and the Conservatorio Superior de “Manuel de Falla”, where she had the opportunity to perform in the prestigious Centro Cultural Kirchner.
About Maxfield Wolloam-Fisher: As a musician who revels in versatility, Maxfield enjoys collaborating in every genre from the traditional to avant garde, folk to pop. Recently he could be found on Becky G’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Miss Lauryn Hill’s concert at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, and performing and recording tango in Argentina and around the United States. As a tango musician for nearly fifteen years, Maxfield has performed with the likes of Julian Peralta, Ramiro Boero, Stratos Achlatis, Victor LaVallen, Pablo Zeigler and many others. Over this time he directed a number of projects including the Da Capo Tango Orchestra, Orquesta Tipica Loca, and the Mad City Live Tango Festival. Along with presenting workshops for both tango musicians and dancers, Maxfield is an advocate for cello and contemporary tango and recently wrote and recorded a series of tango arrangements for solo cello in Buenos Aires.
David Holiday, a lifelong music aficionado , founded Stone Room Concerts together with his wife in 2012 to bring intimate, high-quality performances by local, national, and international independent musicians to the DMV area. He has curated and hosted well over 200 concerts over the past decade in his home, churches, and Hill Center.
