Agenda Pix Listen Repertoire Bio Contact Amago Bio Jiska ter Bals During her studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, Jiska ter Bals already had broad musical interests. She performed with OTRA, the tango orchestra of the Rotterdam Conservatory, and various pop groups with whom she performed in festivals in the Lowlands and recorded. She toured with Cor Bakker, Mathilde Santing and Ernst Daniël Smid. Currently Jiska plays in dutch orchestras, and is hard at work with her own klezmer group Di Fidl Kapelye, with whom she toured in the United States. And of course she is fully immersed in tango, being a founding member of Amago, as well as a member of Tanguevo. Boris Franz Boris Franz was born in Germany. He studied contrabass at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. At the moment he studies classical bass and is developing as an arranger. He plays in the Ricciotti Ensemble and is bassist for Tanguevo, the brazilian group Sabe and the Susanne Staber Band. He currently applies himself to tango in all its facets. Matthias Müller Matthias Müller studied bandoneon at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He played in the tango group OTRA and had his own tango sexteto Recuerdo. Matthias was formerly associated with the Rotterdam Conservatory as a Professor of Tango History. He knows like few others the detailed profiles of the old orchestras of Di Sarli and Troilo. In addition to his tango occupations, Matthias is active as a teacher of english, as well as a translator of german, english and dutch. Anja Schulze Anja Schulze first studied singing and general music education, then subsequently violin in the Argentine Tango Department of the Rotterdam Conservatory. During her studies there, Anja included a couple of years with orquesta tipica OTRA and had her own Cuarteto Gotan. Presently she has a tango/latin dup with Wim Warman, a tango duo with Imme Tonkes on violin, and Anja also plays in a folk band. Jan Willem Troost Jan Willem Troost studied classical cello with Ran Voron at the Conservatory in Zwolle and with Jeroen den Herder in Utrecht, and presently studies with Eduard van Regteren Altena. He plays, and has played, in many different styles and situations: for two years he was part of the Saffierkwartet, which had lessons and a masterclass at the Dutch String Quartet Academy. In the same year Jan Willem was orchestra leader of the famous Ricciotti Ensemble. Recently, he helped found Can-Of-Be, a six-person formation which tours the pop circuit with its own original repertoire. Jan Willem joined Amago in january 2004. Rouzana Tsymbalova Rouzana Tsymbalova was born in Bryansk, Russia. She comes from an artistic family, playing at an early age with the gypsy music group of her violinist father and dancer mother. Rouzana was at that time at the Mosconcert, where she recorded the music for the russian-french film Oligarh. She also played with a gypsy music group. At present she studies in the Tango Department of the Rotterdam Conservatory, and plays with Amago. Mark Wyman Mark Wyman has played piano since age five. In 1988 he moved to San Francisco CA to continue his musical studies, graduating from San Francisco State University (Summa cum laude), and then Mills College (Dean's List) with a Master's in Piano Performance and Literature. Mark has a very broad musical experience, from classical to punk, from pop to avant-garde, playing anything with keys or knobs, piano, organ, accordion, and many different synths. He has performed solo, and with many different groups across the entire musical spectrum: the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble; in Mat Callahan's electric funk-rock band Wild Bouquet; in the Burt Bacharach tribute ensemble Casino Royale; with extreme and eclectic performance vocalist Pamela Z, to name just a few, as well as many ensembles and performances while in school. Mark has toured around the US, and all over Europe, and has played tango in Buenos Aires. While based in San Francisco, Mark played with several tango groups: Strictly Tango, Tango #9, MonTango (with whom he still records and performs), and his own Quartet. Mark currently lives in the Netherlands, performing, accompanying and teaching. He plays also with the tango quintet Racing Club, the tango quintet Bandola zurdo, as well as working with various singers and performers such as Enrique Caruso, Hernan Ruiz, and Jose Rivero.