Bandoneon player, director, and composer. He was born in 1973 in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Horacio Romo is one of the most outstanding bandoneon players in the world music scene with a prestigious career of more than 30 year.

Among his influences are musicians Leopoldo Federico and Osvaldo Piro, from whom he gained his versatility, with a style as powerful as it is subtle.
As a soloist, he has played Astor Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra with U.S. orchestras, including the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic (which received an Emmy Award as Best Latin Concert), and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He has also played with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Great Britain), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (New Zealand), Sinfónica de Lima (Peru), the Moravia Philharmonic (Czech Republic), Orquestra Sinfónica de Porto Alegre (Brazil), Banda Filarmónica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), among others.

Romo performed with the most important Tango orchestras in Argentina, directed by Leopoldo Federico, Fernando Suarez Paz, Julián Plaza, Osvaldo Berlingieri, Horacio Salgán, Antonio Agri, Atilio Stampone, Raúl Garello, Rubén Juárez, and Osvaldo Piro, among others. Romo was the musical director and first bandoneon in the “Tango Argentino” and “Tango Pasión” companies, performed the opera “María de Buenos Aires” in Poland and was part of the opera “Orestes, Last Tango,” touring in the Netherlands and Belgium.

He performed with renowned tango singers, including Roberto Goyeneche, Alberto Castillo, Alberto Morán, Rubén Juárez, Raúl Lavié, María Graña, and Elena Roger, among others. He has also collaborated with Julio Iglesias, Luis Miguel, Laura Pausini, Ricardo Montaner, Marco Antonio Solís, La India, Diego El Cigala, and Buika.

Romo recorded in more than a hundred albums with Argentine and international artists, including the famous “Café de los Maestros”. He collaborated with maestro and conductor Lalo Schifrin, participated in the original motion picture soundtrack Tango by Carlos Saura and participated in the documentaries “Café de los Maestros” and “Si sos brujo”.

Romo’s band, Horacio Romo Sexteto, visited 25 cities in his tour in Japan, during which recorded the album “Tangos del Alba”. He is currently the soloist of the Orquesta Nacional de Música Argentina Juan de Dios Filiberto, the music director and first bandoneon of the international company Forever Tango, and music director and first bandoneon of Sexteto Mayor, the legendary orchestra with more than 45 years of trajectory.