Ariel Eberstein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1979 and discovered the double bass at the age of 16. In 1997, he began studying the double bass in Buenos Aires with Miguel Angel Villaroel. Only 4 years later, he continued studying in Vienna with James Rapport (Wiener Kammerorchester) and Andrew Ackerman (Concentus Musicus). Ariel later moved to Belgium in order to continue his studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels where he completed his master’s degree, including a one-year Erasmus exchange program at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in 2010 with Quirijn van Regteren Altena (Schönberg Ensemble).
Ariel has worked with many world-famous conductors and has played in the most important Belgian orchestras such as the Vlaamse Opera, National Orchestra of Belgium, De Filharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Opera Royal de Wallonie, De Munt/La Monnaie and Brussels Philharmonic. He also has given concerts in the most important concert halls of Europe and America, including Concertgebouw and Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Musikverein and Konzerthaus (Vienna), Festspielhaus (Salzburg), Cité de la Musique (Paris), Bozar and Flagey (Brussels), Polin (Warsaw), Cadogan Hall (London), The Usher Hall (Edinburgh), Casa de la Musica (Ecuador), Teatro Mayor Santo Domingo (Colombia), Usina del Arte and Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires).
Since 2014, Ariel Eberstein has specialized in tango music and leads the Brussels-based and internationally renowned tango ensemble SONICO. Thanks to this project, Ariel has become an artist of reference in interpreting music from the “tango vanguardia” period.
In July 2018, Ariel was invited by legendary pianist Martha Argerich to participate in the closing concert of her festival in Hamburg. This festival resulted in a triple CD entitled “Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich” on the record label Avantimusic. Eberstein also appeared on the record “Reunion” by Argentine composer and four-time Grammy award winner Fernando Otero, released by Etcetera Records in December 2018. Eberstein then joined Otero’s 2018 European tour as a double bassist.
Together with violin virtuoso Michael Guttman, Ariel gives regular performances at various festivals and concert halls: Pietrasanta in Concerto (IT), Odessa Classics (UKR), Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (BE), etc.
Since 2018, Ariel has also developed a strong artistic relationship with choreographer Lisi Estaras (Monkey Mind/ Les Ballets C de la B), with whom, exploring the relationship between modern tango and contemporary dance, he collaborated in several projects successfully presented in Argentina, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy.