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La Tosca is a little orchestra, the kind you could find in a Parisian Café Chantant in 1928.
It is a unique historical and geographical fusion as the musicians have different musical backgrounds such as Italian, French, Polish, and American.
Performing songs in five languages, the band combines violin, guitars, upright bass, and accordion to create rich, energetic music that defies easy placement.
Their sound evokes images of 1930's Parisian night clubs, South American street festivals, European ball rooms, and sun-baked weddings in Southern Italy.
OUR CLIENTS
Campari
Fever Candlelight Concert Series
Eataly,
Princi Starbucks
Hilton Hotel
Soho House
Diner en Blanc,
Hard Rock Casino
Star Events
Loyola University CHI
University of Chicago
The Renaissance society
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago
Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York
Ministero degli Affari Esteri
Italian Chamber of Commerce
ITA Airways
Chicago department of aviation
Fermilab
French Chamber of Commerce of Chicago
Best of Chicago Magazine
CHI Dcase
La Tosca Chicago Videos
01:10
Taylor street Chicago, I found a new baby
01:31
l’uva fogarina, Taylor street fest Chicago
02:04
Chicago World Music Festival, Stephanie Pielok
00:55
Chicago World Music Festival, Stephanie Pielok
01:02
Chicago World Music Festival, oi Marie
01:20
Chicago World Music Festival, Der heiser Bulgar
01:00
Baciami Piccina, World Music Festival Chicago
01:16
Sarracino, Renato Carosone 1958, Green Mill 2024
01:38
C'est si bon, Yves Montand 1948 Green Mill 2024
03:49
Waltz no.2, Dmitri Shostakovic
02:48
La Foule, Angel Cabral
02:20
Joseph Joseph, Django Gypsyjazz festival Chigago 2022, Adrien Chevalier & Alfonso Ponticelli
02:04
Hora Stoican, Chicago Gypsyjazz fest 2022 at The Green Mill, Adrien Chevalier
01:31
Carmelina, italian polka.
01:10
Parla piu’ piano, The godfather theme, Nino Rota
01:30
All of me, tutto di me, italian cover.
01:20
Ma premiere guitar, Sacha Distel
04:02
Every day i have the Blues feat Davide Ilardi
01:15
Chitarra Romana, Cherubini, 1934
01:57
La Dolce vita, Nino Rota 1960
01:33
Tu vuo’ fa l’americano, Renato Carosone 1956
05:24
La Tosca Chicago presentation for DCASE individual grant application
04:02
La Tosca NavyPier 2019
06:25
La Tosca - Lunaticos (Live at Hungry Brain)
05:41
La Tosca Red Moon Wedding
03:14
La Tosca - Tarantolata (Live at Handsome Squid)
"LA TOSCA IS THE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST ENTERTAINMENT AS COCKTAIL BAND" BEST OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE.
" La Tosca creates soulful fusion of European nostalgia “
“They bring a fusion of Italian, French, Romani jazz and classical music – nostalgic hits largely written between 1850-1950, including sing-along classics like La Vie en Rose, Mambo Italiano, Que Sera Sera and more. Their concerts feature improvisation, a rotating cast of additional musicians and a big dose of nostalgia.” Sophie Vodvarka from Evanston Roundtable.
MEET THE BAND!
STEPHANIE PIELOK (violin and mandolin) has performed in venues such as the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Symphony Center in Chicago, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and performs regularly different orchestras such as the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra, the Arts orchestra of Chicago, the Rockford Symphony
She has made her debut with the Armenian State Orchestra in the fall 2019 and was invited to perform witht the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Sergey Smbatyan.
ANDREA FALCONE (accordion, voice)
grew up in Milan to a Sicilian/Sardinian family. He studied Contemporary Art at the Academia di Brera in Milan and specialized in photogrpahy. He worked as a fashion photographer and teacher of history of photography in Milan, Santiago del Chile and Buenos Aires notably. He established himself in Chicago in 2013 and decided to invest more time into his musical dreams. Passionate about music since the age of 10, Andrea taught himself accordion and guitar starting with southern Italian traditional music such as tarentellas, pizzicas and tammuriatas and dedicated his time to sudying the lives of his favorite performers and composers.
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