Outstanding Personality  of Culture of the Autonomuus City of Buenos Aires
Min-On Art Award, Concert Association, founder Daisaku Ikeda
Honorary Academician of the National Academy of Tango
2009- 60 years with  the Music

Walter Rios is an exquisite, versatile BANDONEON Player, COMPOSER, ARRANGER, and DIRECTOR.
His art has made him an inspiration for poets.
The writer Rodolfo Relman dedicated the poem “Fuelle” to Walter Rios.
Bandoneon, the instrument of the century, “the one that breathes,” "The purest expression from the soul…", when played by Walter Rios, "...becomes the most beautiful melody of all time”
The Bandoneonist that one night Bill Evans admired.

The bandoneonist  Walter Rios was born in July 18th of 1942 in San Eduardo, Santa Fé. His first teacher was his father, Don Santos Ríos when  he was only four years old. At the age of six, he began to be at the stages with the orchestra of his father. He was bandoneonist of the Maipo Orchestra of Venado Tuerto.  He continued studying in Rosario city with Antonio Ríos. In 1960 he arrived to Buenos Aires and  started  his studies in the National Conservatory of Music .

 
Walter Rios is the founder of the Tango Trio and cofounder of Quinteto de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. He has performed all around the world with the Walter Rios Quintet, Walter Ríos Octet  or The  Walter Rios Orchestra, along with Ricardo Dominguez with the unforgettable guitar and bandoneon duet. Bandoneon soloist  in prestigious Symphony Orchestras performing  “El Pueblo Joven”, “María de Buenos Aires” by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, well as the Symphony Orchestra of Finland with Susana Rinaldi between others.

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