Rodolfo Miguel Montironi[1] (born December 4, 1931, in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine bandoneonist, conductor, composer and arranger who has been involved in many tango orchestras in addition to his own.
He also participated in the rock opera Evita (Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber), played with singers Paloma San Basilio, Patxi Andión and the Orquesta Nacional de España; consisting of eighty-two members.
In October, 1982 he presented the show Grandes Valores del Tango at the Palladium Boite (Madrid), and later in Trottoirs de Buenos Aires (Paris).
He became director of this venue – considered the Cathedral of tango in Europe – where he, among other people, met Julio Cortázar, Edgardo Canton and Susana Rinaldi.
Furthermore; a quintet that included Osvaldo Montes (bandoneon), Ciro Pérez (guitar) and in which also Gustavo Beytelman (piano) played, he performed at the Trottoirs and at the 10th anniversary of the [2] as a tribute to Carlos Gardel.
In 1988 he led the band that was the backing group for the singer Ricardo Sivinar during the recording of the album Adiós Nonino (music by Astor Piazzolla).
The collection of musicians was a dream team, Francisco Tejedor (piano), Rodolfo Montironi (bandoneon), Antonio Agri (violin) and Omar Murtagh (bass).
In addition, the Ministry of Culture published in a «Rosario album» by his trio which included Antonio Agri on violin, and vocal contributions by Marcos Andino and Ricardo Paradiso.
He performed concerts at Auditorio Manuel de Falla at Alhambra in Granada, the Roman amphitheater in Syracuse, Sicily, in Florida, Madrid and Radio France, Paris.
The following year he appeared, to great acclaim, on Ariston Milan, along with (among others) pianist Barbara Varassi (Rosario) and Alfonso Pacín who played violin and also doubled on guitar.
He has arranged a large number of tango pieces for the Norwegian bandoneonist Kåre Jostein Simonsen who has visited "Cholo" repeatedly over the last ten years.
On August 24, 2012, the Argentine House of Representatives honored Montironi as a «Famous ambassador of Argentina» in the main hall of Parliament (Buenos Aires).
Montironi continues to be active in various venues in Rosario with his trio, with Javier Martínez Lo Re (piano) and Ruben Mill (bass), and alternated between Rodolfo Demar, Gaby Estrada and Leonel Capitano (vocals), and has used Ernesto Renzi as reciter.
The members of the orchestra were Rodolfo Montironi (bandoneon), Raúl Ocaña (piano), Carlos Padula (guitar), David Elia (violin), Domingo Fiore (bass), Roberto Dumas and Oscar Juárez (vocals).