Bandoneon artist Henrik Sandås has earned his unique position in the international music scene.
Sandåsin intohimoinen suhde musiikkiin on herättänyt ihastusta ja arvostusta aina Eurooppaa ja Etelä-Amerikkaa myöten. Sandås on Suomen ehkäpä kysytyin tango nuevo -spesialisti. Hän on hän kantaesittänyt muun muassa Timothy Pagenin, Øyvind Mælandin, Markku Klamin, Kirmo Lintisen, Jukka Linkolan, Matti Laukkasen, Iikka Kotajan ja Kari Ikosen teoksia.
Sandås has performed in Finland, Sweden, France, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Latvia, and Russia. He has performed both as a soloist with orchestras and as a chamber musician, collaborating with orchestras such as UMO, Solti Chamber Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Seinäjoki City Orchestra, Lappeenranta City Orchestra, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra, Lohja City Orchestra, and Mikkeli City Orchestra.
His festival performances both in Finland and abroad include Lux Musicae, Kuhmo Chamber Music, Korsholm Music Festival, Pyhäniemi Manor Concert Series, Buenos Aires Tango Festival, Flow Festival, Dias Nordicos, Brahe Classica, SibaFest, Jyväskylä Summer, Kamarikesä at the Knight’s Room, Ruska Swing, and World Tango Festival. Singers Grace Jones, Martin Alvarado, Patricio Arroyo, Daniel Bonilla-Torres, Jyrki Anttila, Juha Hostikka, and Angelika Klas, violinists Elina Vähälä, Daniel Rowland, and Antti Heermann, pianists Heini Kärkkäinen, Matilda Kärkkäinen, and Henri Sigfridsson, bandoneonist-composer Marcelo Nisinman, conductor Patrick Gallois, guitarist Alberto Mesirca, clarinetist Lauri Sallinen, double bassist Zoran Marcovic, jazz drummer Verneri Pohjola, and the Astoria and Artende string quartets have also collaborated with Sandås.
The bandoneon which Sandås is using, dating back to 1928, was built by Alfred Arnold.