MARCELO RAGO

Marcelo Rago

Marcelo Rago is an Argentine composer and pianist, originally from Buenos Aires. His work is distinguished by its innovative approach to classical music.

His repertoire encompasses original compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations that fuse classical
language with a modern sensibility.

His music is available on platforms like Spotify and YouTube, allowing a global audience to appreciate his contribution to the current music scene. Marcelo Rago’s music is characterized by being an “open work,” that is, it allows for multiple interpretations. His music “speaks” to us in a secret language, and is characterized as “Classical” and “21st Century.” With these “characteristics,” it generates diverse emotions when listening to it. The “Classical” part offers us beauty, prestige, order; it is formal, sad, radiates purity, grandeur, richness, eternity, and a love for culture and history. It proposes an orderly cosmos, without alterations; everything is familiar to us. His “21st Century” music, without a previous model, offers us surprise, restlessness, and doubts about the future; a new kind of music, instability, curiosity; we must propose a new cosmos. Music must have a “soul,” yet to be discovered. If there are two men in man, the one seen and the one unseen, then in music there must also be two musics: the one heard and the one experienced. Music is a state of the soul. What is the “soul” of music? It is “classical” and anti-classical. He is a musician who does not fall into the “Red carpet syndrome,” false appearances and vanity, nor does it feel like his music is that of an “enlightened one.”