Flower Piano Lounge: Sumi Lee Tango Collective

Date: Saturday, September 21

Time:

Lounge Session: 10am – 2pm

Concert Performance: 12pm – 1:30pm

Location: Celebration Garden

Sumi Lee Tango Collective

Ms. Lee is a classically trained pianist and obtained a Master’s degree in Music and piano
performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has worked with many Bay Area
opera companies, choruses, and K-8 schools in the Bay Area. She is also a trained tango pianist
from La Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce, the most prestigious tango orchestra school in
Buenos Aires where she studied and performed with living tango maestros such as Víctor Lavallén,
Jose Pepe Colangelo, Osvaldo Piro, Roberto Alvarez, Daniel Binelli, Mauricio Marceli, Nicolas
Ledesma, Pablo Estigarribia, Cristian Asato, etc. One of the concerts with the Balcarce orchestra at
Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires was sold out and aired live on national radio 2*4 & TV Publica
Argentina. Since moving back from Argentina, she has been performing and touring the U.S., South
Korea, & Canada. She was invited to perform at San Francisco Int’l Arts Festival 2020, 2021 & 2023
with Bandoneonist Hyeni Solera as a Duo, Las Almas. Her current projects are producing
contemporary tango concerts consisting of new works by living composers, including herself, and
recording albums that will be released in the fall of 2024.

She was a founding member of the international all-woman, diversity-affirming tango orchestra,
“Solidaridad.” Also, she founded an artist management company, Golden Gate Int’l Artists, to help
artists of diverse cultures & underserved groups to be able to perform and teach their art forms in
different countries and cities, especially in the fields of non-popular music such as Argentine Tango,
where musicians do not receive sufficient support unless they have already established a name for
themselves.

She is a recipient of the 2023 California Non-Profit Performing Arts Grant and the 2023
Intermusic Musical Grant program.

She has served the non-profit organization Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC), San
Francisco, a board of directors for a decade for the local community of music teachers and
students.

Education: Masters in Music, Piano Performance, SF Conservatory of Music. Certification in the
musical language of tango and its various styles given by the Ministry of Culture and Art Education
Argentina.

http://www.sumilee.com

Patrons will be asked to exit at the end of each lounge session unless they hold an All Day Pass.

• Purchase an all-day pass for Saturday, September 21 here.

Attendees will have access to craft cocktails, local food makers, and enjoy a private concert series in our all ages Celebration Garden event! Includes general admission for Flower Piano.