ABOUT
Alan Haksten
" Alan Haksten is the mentor, guitarist and composer of all the pieces of Haksten Alan Grupp, a team of young musicians octet was feeling during the recent successful Independent Tango Festival."
- Carlos Bevilacqua , Pagina 12
Composer, accordionist and guitarist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1984.
He studied guitar and accordion with different private teachers, graduating in composition and electroacoustic composition at the National University of the Arts (UNA) in Buenos Aires and Arrangements at the Academia Nacional del Tango. He studied Scoring for Film and Media at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Umeå. Currently he is studying a Master’s in Composition for Audiovisual Media at Lund University.
Alan has been part of various musical projects, in which he has been able to develop as a composer and instrumentalist, and he has toured in Europe and South America several times. He has composed pieces for theater, dance and audiovisual projects and has also released eight albums.
He currently shares his life between Sweden and Argentina, where he has succeeded in instilling his own personal contribution to the language of modern contemporary tango.
"Alan has already vislumbramiento a very own style in the way of composing and arranging, and a concept of what you want and what you put on stage in various formations addressed or integrated."
- La Mirada.