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Tomás Cabado is an argentinian composer and performer. He plays guitar and cavaquinho and writes music for soloists and ensembles.

His music production is in constant dialog with thoughts about sound, the way it can be conceived, and the relationships between actors and factors inside the musical practice. Recently he started to seek in his work ways of replacing, disguising, or perhaps hiding narrative and processes, looking for a sense of statism or repetition but leading to slightly different states in time.

He studied composition with Santiago Santero at the National University of Arts in the Department of Music and Sound Arts at Buenos Aires. He owns the title of Music Teacher from the Juan Pedro Esnaola School of Music and received grants from the Berklee School of Music of Boston (MA, USA), Argentinan Found for Development, Ministry of Education in Argentina, and the National Found for Arts.

His music for soloists, ensembles, electronics and/or video has been played in Germany, Chile and extensively in Argentina. He wrote commisioned music for different ensembles (Contemporary Music Ensemble of the UNA, PAMPA Ensemble) and participated as a composer in recidencies with musicians (at conDiT in Buenos Aires, and Germina.Cciones in Chile). He regularly composes music for videos that traveled to festivals arround Latin America and Europe.

As a performer he participates in the experimental, contemporary and improvised music scene of Buenos Aires, playing as a guest in different ensembles and in some ad hoc groups. He has a duo with cellist Gabriela Areal were they play original music between composed and improvised. Ocassionaly, he participates in jazz and brazilian music groups, live and in records.

Also, he produces concerts with Juan Saidón in this experimental/improvisation scene where composers, improvisers, bands and writers participate in the same venue.