[ about rolando goldman ]

Rolando Goldman began studying Charango (armadillo) when he was 12 years old, with professor Arnoldo Pintos at the Buenos Aires Children's Vocational Art Municipal Institute.
He was a founding member of Latin American music group "Viracocha" (1980 - 1985). Viracocha recorded two cassettes and was a winner at the Argentine folk music Cosquin Festival in 1984.
Between 1986 and 1992, Mr. Goldman made part of the following bands: Inti Sumaj, Colibrí, Huancara, Coquena, and Runa.
He then started his career as a soloist, sharing performances with and playing as a guest for recordings by artists like Víctor Heredia, Lito Vitale, Juan Falú, Alejandro Lerner, Miguel Angel Estrella, Raúl Carnota, and Opus Cuatro.
In 1991, he played the world debut of the first Concert for Charango and Orchestra by Augusto B. Rattenbach, accompanied by the Mayo Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Mario Benzecry.

Enhancing the instrument's potential, he played solo concerts at the National Cervantes Theater with the "Juan de Dios Filiberto" Argentine Music National Orchestra.
He recorded "La Misa Criolla" by Ariel Ramírez, with choral group Opus Cuatro, percussionist Domingo Cura, and La Plata University Choir, also performing at the City of Buenos Aires General San Martín and President Alvear Theaters, and at the National University of La Plata.
In October, 1997, he was invited by the Bolivian Charango Society to The II Charango Players Conference and I International Meeting of Charango Players at the City of La Paz, Bolivia; where he also gave a concert with significant repercussion in the mass media and among his Bolivian peers. He was sponsored by the Secretariat of Culture of the Buenos Aires City Government.

Since 1996 and up to date, he has had a duo with guitar player Raúl Malosetti.
In June 1999, he played the world debut of the first Concert for Charango and Orchestra by Alejandro Simonovich, with the "Juan de Dios Filiberto" Orchestra at the National Cervantes Theater.

In July of the same year he released his first album "Diablo Suelto" (The Devil's escapade), highly praised by the specialized media.

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In October, he traveled to the Bolivian city of Potosi to attend the International Charango Players Conference, sponsored by the Secretariat of Culture of the Buenos Aires City Government, after being appointed member of the Charango Bolivian Society, as concert musician.
On December 31, 1999, he participated from the Iguazu Falls location, along with Mercedes Sosa, Alejandro Lerner and other musicians, in the "Millennium Day" Special Program broadcast worldwide on TV.

In December, 1999 and January, 2000, he recorded the "Vamos de Vuelta" (Here We Go Again) album with guitar player Raúl Malosetti.

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Rolando Goldman also works intensively in education, coordinating and participating in "La Música va a la Escuela" (Music goes to School) and "La Música de Todos" (Music for All), these are educational programs on Argentine regional cultures carried out in all municipal schools of the Secretariat of Culture of Buenos Aires. He also gives seminars, courses and workshops on Andean music for teachers, at the Teachers Training School of the Secretariat of Education of the City of Buenos Aires, and other programs at schools, at the Buenos Aires University Philosophy and Literature School and at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, as well as private coaching.

He received a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts to write a studying method of charango; a task he completed between July 1998 and March 1999.

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In 2000, he inaugurated the chair of charango at the "Manuel de Falla" Music Conservatory, of the Government of Buenos Aires City-chair he still holds.