About the show Between melancholy and longing for lost times and spaces, the duo formed by Federico D`Attellis and Ana-Josefina Nickelé explores an intimate dialogue performing tangos and Latin American folk music. In their music, they find an expression that embodies the fascinating interplay of tradition and modernity in South America. Federico & Ana-Josefina invite the audience to embark on an emotional journey that explores the different facets of Argentine folklore as well as traditional and modern tango. About the artists Federico D’Attellis was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied classical guitar at the Conservatory of Music “Manuel de Falla” in Buenos Aires and at the same time he studied Tango and Folklore at “Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda”. He improved his guitar skills with the renowned Víctor Villadangos and took courses in composition, arrangements and improvisation with references of Argentine music, such as Lilián Saba, Ernesto Snajer and Diego Schissi. As a composer and arranger of tango and Argentine folklore, he fuses the elements of popular music with academic music and jazz, with a conceptual treatment from the rhythmic, the melodic and the harmonic. Ana-Josefina Nickelé is a singer and certified vocal teacher living in Berlin – with a passion for Argentine tango. Since 2012, the soprano has been teaching singing in her studios in Berlin and Wolfenbüttel. She also currently works as a lecturer for voice training at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts and is a voice coach with the Vokalhelden, the children’s and youth choir of the Berlin Philharmonic. Since October 2020, she has been training to become an Alexander Technique teacher at the Alexander Technique School in Berlin. Her work at the Philharmonie culminates each year in classical choral and opera productions with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle, and Simon Halsey. Here, she has supervised the choirs for Giuseppe Verdi’s “Suor Angelica” and premieres such as Andrew Norman’s “A Trip to the Moon.” She also rehearses pop music projects with the Vokalhelden, for example, with songwriters Herbert Grönemeyer and Bodo Wartke.