Currently a member of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra (Teatro Colón).

He began studying violin at an early age with his father, Ángel Ridolfi, and later with Szymsia Bajour. At the age of 16, he continued his training with Alberto Lysy, who invited him to Switzerland to join the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad. There, he took part in tours, concerts, and recordings across Europe. He completed his studies in 1996 at the Geneva Conservatory, where he was awarded the Prix de Musique de Chambre.

Between 1986 and 1990, he lived in the United States, studying under Jaime Laredo and Josef Gingold at the St. Louis Conservatory and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. He also attended masterclasses with the American Quartet and Michael Tree at the Taos Festival in New Mexico. In 1988 and 1989, he was invited by Alexander Schneider to perform with the New York String Ensemble at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.

Starting in 1995, he embarked on an active tango career, performing in cities such as Tokyo, New York, London, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Brussels, alongside leading musicians and tango companies. These included Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango, Otango, and the company of Andrés Linetzky, with whom he toured in the 2015 Tango Origin production in Tokyo.

In 2001, he returned to Buenos Aires to continue his musical career in Argentina. He has performed widely in chamber music settings and was a member of the UCA Quartet. He recorded a CD with Viviana Lazzarin featuring sonatas by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, and Fauré, as well as another album with the Gianneo Quartet.

Cristian Basto is a composer and one of the leading tango and popular music double bassists of his generation. He has collaborated with renowned artists and ensembles such as Rascasuelos, Quasimodo Trío, Pablo Mainetti, Diego Schissi, Nicolás Guerschberg, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Dancing Mood, Lidia Borda, Susana Rinaldi, Nacha Guevara, Hilda Herrera, Juan Carlos Cuacci, Julieta Laso, and La Chicana.

He has performed as a musician with various tango-dance companies, including Mora Godoy, Eleonora Cassano, Tango x 2 by Miguel Ángel Zotto, SocialTango, and Taco Teco.

Basto has toured extensively across the United States, Japan, Canada, China, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Russia, Spain, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Switzerland, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Mexico, and Costa Rica. He has played on prestigious stages such as the Teatro Colón in Argentina, Carnegie Hall in the United States, Sofia Theater in Bulgaria, Tropentheater and De Doelen in the Netherlands, among many others.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1982 and based in Brussels since 2016, this Argentine guitarist has developed a career focused on tango and Latin American music, with a particular emphasis on live performance and collaboration. Since the early 2000s, he has worked with a wide range of ensembles exploring traditional tango, contemporary styles, and fusion, as well as jazz and other popular Latin American genres.

He studied at the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda (EMPA) in Buenos Aires, completing studies in Jazz and Tango under the guidance of respected teachers such as Aníbal Arias and “Chocho” Ruiz. He also studied privately with Javier Cohen and explored composition with composers known for their original voices, including Guillermo Klein, Diego Schissi, and Nicolás Guerschberg.

Since 2004, he has been the guitarist and a composer for the group Violentango, with whom he recorded five albums and toured internationally across Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia. The group has performed at notable festivals and venues including Glastonbury Festival (UK), Vive Latino (Mexico), Savassi Jazz (Brazil), Heineken Jazz Canarias (Spain), Jazz al Parque (Colombia), and Nishville Jazz Festival (Serbia).

In addition to his work with Violentango, he has also collaborated with ensembles such as SONICO (Belgium) and Quinteto Ensueños (France), performing throughout Europe and beyond.

His work has received recognition from Argentine cultural institutions: in 2012, the Ministry of Culture declared his quintet to be of Cultural and Artistic Interest, and in 2013, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Tourism recognized him as a Cultural Heritage Ambassador, noting his contribution to promoting Argentine identity abroad.