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From 1999-2002 he was the principal guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Honduras. He has been a frequent guest conductor of the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra in Ecuador. In 2009, he participated in a South American music festival in Lima, Peru and received critical acclaim for his orchestra’s musicianship and unique programming. In 2011, he returned to Lima to play a command performance for President Alan Garcia. Maestro Buslje directed PASO for the 2013 Latino Presidential Inaugural Celebration at the Kennedy Center. In 2018, he was invited to perform with PASO at the International Festival of Tango in Medellin, Colombia. He has been the creative force behind the Pan American Symphony Orchestra. With his “sure command of the music’s expressive scope” and his sensitive balancing of orchestral commentary, he has “quietly created a valuable Washington institution” (Washington Post). 

She is currently completing her Doctor in Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where she studies with violinist Vadim Gluzman as a Dean’s Doctoral Fellow. 

Ms. Nelson was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Argentina that allowed her to fully immerse herself in studying tango music in Buenos Aires for nine months in 2023. Her notable concerts in Argentina include a solo tango violin performance at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, performances at Teatro el Fino with the Ariel Pirotti Quartet, a milonga at the historic tango club Salón Marabú with the ensemble Sentimental y Cayengue, and frequent appearances in one of the most popular and longest-running tango shows in Buenos Aires, El Querandí.  She also studied and performed at the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School’s Piazzolla Festival, Reed College’s Tango for Musicians Festival in Portland, Oregon, and the Stowe Tango Academy in Vermont.

Holly also performs classical and avant-garde music. She was recently awarded the Peabody Institute of Music's Presser Graduate Music Award, the conservatory's most prestigious award “designed to encourage and support the advanced education and career of truly exceptional graduate music students who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music." Holly has appeared in concert as a soloist and as a chamber and orchestral musician throughout the U.S., including residencies at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Jazz at Lincoln Center as a violin fellow with The Orchestra Now. She has also performed in Canada at the Banff Center for the Arts in conjunction with the International Contemporary Ensemble, given a recital tour in Taiwan with harpsichordist Hsiu-Tzu Ryan, performed in England as concertmaster of the Britten Pears Contemporary Music Program, in Switzerland and Luxembourg with the chamber ensemble FENSADENSE as an artist of the Lucerne Festival, and in China as principal second violin with the Manhattan Symphonie during its month-long tour.

Sánchez has played in the most popular tango shows in Buenos Aires, including El Viejo Almacén, Esquina de Carlos Gardel, Café Tortoni, Piazzolla Tango Theater, among others. In 2016, he relocated to the New York metropolitan area and collaborated with a variety of tango groups, the most notable being Aces of Rhythm directed by Pablo Aslan (debuted at Lincoln Center in July of 2017), the Pan American Symphony Orchestra (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.), and the Astoria Tango Orchestra led by Daniel Binelli (11-piece orquesta típica). In August 2016, he won First Prize at the prestigious Che Bandoneon International Competition judged by bandoneón legend, Victor Lavallén. In 2018, Mr. Sanchez became Musical Director of Che Tangazo orchestra based in Montreal, Canada, making its debut in July at Tango BA Festival and World Cup. In the past five years, Mr. Sanchez has also performed with many renowned tango musicians such as Emilio Solla, Oscar Feldman, Héctor del Curto, and Sverre Indris Joner. In 2019, Mr. Sanchez completed arranging a repertoire of tangos specifically for social dancing and put together a tango quartet called Mala Junta that has performed in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

She is also the bandoneon player with Solidaridad Tango Orquesta which focuses on female tango musicians in a typically male dominated genre.  As a scholar, she received her Master of Music degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has developed the lectures A GPS for Tango Listening: What Makes Tango a Tango? and Today’s Woman in Tango: Carving Out Spaces.  Past projects include playing in the orchestra of the highly praised IN Series production of Le Cabaret de Carmen at Source Theatre in Washington, D.C. and at Baltimore Theatre Project in Baltimore, Maryland. Solera’s current and future projects include “Today’s Tango with Heyni”, a mini-series that features today’s contemporary tango musicians throughout the world, the EP album Overture, an original contemporary tango recording project with Arco & Aire, and a bandoneón duo album, El Bandoneón en Bach, dedicated to J.S. Bach that was released in March 2022.

From 2011 to 2015, Jaurena was the Artistic Director of the Tango Orchestra of the System of Music Schools of Medellin, Colombia. Since 2013, he has been the director of the Ciriaco Typical Orchestra (Orquesta Típica Ciriaco) and the School Orchestra of Tango in Córdoba, Argentina. In 2020, Jaurena was named Artistic and Teaching Director of the School Orchestra of Tango at the National University of Villa María in Córdoba, Argentina. He has also been a member of the Tango MJC Trio, and winner of the 2006 Pre-Cosquin and 2013 Cosquin. Cosquin is a town in Córdoba, Argentina where every year the National Festival of Folklore has been celebrated since 1963. In 2015, he formed the Pablo Jaurena Sextet. With the Tango MJC Trio, Jaurena recorded four albums and toured North and South America, Europe, and Asia. At the same time, he performed with pianist Andrés Linetzky and developed his career as a soloist, with tours to China in 2016 that included master classes in bandoneón in ten Chinese cities. He has participated in more than 40 recordings as bandoneon player, arranger, or artistic director. His works and arrangements have been performed by ensembles and orchestras from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, China, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and others. This is Pablo’s second performance with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra. His first visit was in 2022 when he performed with PASO and the Colombian tango quintet, F-31 in Washington, DC.

In 2010 they received a nomination in the Latin ACE Award for Best Choreography for their performance in Tango por Ellos in New York City.  In 2018, they placed second in the competition Pelando Variacion held in New York City. In 2012 and 2013, Adriana and Orlando were guest instructors and performers at Dancing at Sea, a dance cruise company for Holland America, Norwegian and Royal Princess. From 2012 to 2014, they performed at Tango Malbec House in New York City. They are recognized for their smooth, romantic, and elegant style. Their teaching focuses on the subtleties of the connection, posture and overall technique fundamentals. Their passion and love for, and their constant dedication to Argentine tango has won them awards in their native Colombia and more recently in the United States where they have become the Argentina Tango-USA Official 2019 Stage Tango champions and the 2021 Tango de Pista/Salon champions. They have been dancing for the Pan American Symphony Orchestra since 2016.

She became known worldwide from her time with the show Compañía TangoX2 and, later, Tango Argentino, which had great success on Broadway in the 1980’s. She then joined the cast of Forever Tango directed by Luis Bravo and created the dramatic-choreographic-musical multimedia show Tango, historias breves in 2003 which took her to the United States for two tours.  She danced at Carnegie Hall in a homage to Astor Piazzolla with the pianist, Pablo Ziegler; at the opening ceremony of the 1994 World Cup; with Jon Secada at Soldiers Field in Chicago; and with Julio Iglesias in 1997 during his three-year world tour, promoting his album, Tango.  She worked with Argentine pianist, Mariano Mores for 20 years.  She has appeared in several motion pictures, such as Luis Puenzo’s La peste (1991), in which she is showcased in a dancing tango scene; Robert Duvall’s Assassination Tango (2002); and in Valentina's Tango (2007) directed by Rogelio Lobato, in which she played Valentina.  She has been a judge for the World Tango Competition in Moscow, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Buenos Aires. She danced in the rock-opera Evita at New York City Center in 2019, and most recently appeared in Tango Argentino at the World Tango championships in Buenos Aires. 

In 2018, he performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at the Eastman Kodak Theater and at Carnegie Hall in New York City.  In 2019, he danced in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s production of Evita, at New York City Center.  Most recently, he danced Tango Argentino at the closing ceremony of the World Tango championship in Buenos Aires.

Her performances have spanned a wide range of productions, including "Eternal Tango" alongside Hector del Curto, the show "Tanguero," and "Tango! Soul and Heart” at the Kennedy Center with the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Her artistry extended to the acclaimed off-Broadway production "Tango House," produced by Juan Fabbri. She showcased her talents in several seasons at the esteemed Thalia Spanish Theater in New York. Carolina has danced and conducted workshops across the globe , including a special tango workshop at the Canarias Tango Festival in Spain and one at Landesakademie in Ochsenhausen, Germany, a performance at the Solis Theater in Uruguay for "100 Años de Tango," and performances in Germany at venues such as the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart and the Alte Synagoge in Hechingen.  Carolina has also been an integral part of the Camarada Tango Quartet from San Diego for the past 4 years and most recently performed with the Symphony of Solidarity at Carnegie Hall. She has a deep appreciation for beauty, balance, and self-expression.  Carolina has been dancing with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra for over ten years. 

In 1999, his career launched when he became part of the Tango Festival “Colombo Argentina” in a tour throughout Colombia produced by Impresario Walter Davis. Following the end of his tour, in 2000, he became part of the Tango Company “Una cita con el Tango” directed by Alexander Giraldo in the city of Pereira, Colombia.  In 2002, he became part of the cast of “Argentine Tango Show” touring the United Emirates and performing for six consecutive months at the prestigious Jumeirath Beach Hotel in Dubai. He has been part of several well-recognized World Tango Competitions and Festivals. In 2006, he was National Stage Tango Champion in “Tangovia” a Tango Competition held in Manizales, Colombia and in 2009 he won the National Stage Tango Competition in Bogotá, after which he represented Colombia at the eighth World Tango Summit held in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. He has dedicated a great part of his professional life to teaching tango. As a choreographer, he is in high demand for his innovative and unique style of tango dancing.  In 2011 he choreographed the show “Por amor al Tango” directed and produced by musician Erskine Maytorena in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2019 Andres became the official US Tango Salon Champion and won first place in the SoCal and the ATUSA Official Mundial Tango Championship. Most recently, he performed with the Symphony of Solidarity at Carnegie Hall and the Camarada Tango Quartet in New York City. Andres is currently based in New York City where he teaches, choreographs, and performs. He is a frequent dancer with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra.