A native of Rosario, Argentina, Maestro Bušlje studied piano, conducting, violoncello, and tuba at La Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Buenos Aires.  Before founding PASO in 1991, he was Assistant Conductor of the American University Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the American University Camerata in Washington, DC. Maestro Bušlje has been a frequently featured guest conductor in Argentina.  In 2001, he was a guest conductor of the Sochi Symphony Orchestra in Russia.  From 1999-2002 he was the principal guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Honduras. He has been a frequent guest conductor of the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra in Ecuador.  In 2009, he participated in a South American music festival in Lima, Peru and received critical acclaim for his orchestra’s musicianship and unique programming.  In 2011, he returned to Lima to play a command performance for President Alan Garcia.  Maestro Bušlje directed PASO for the 2013 Latino Presidential Inaugural Celebration at the Kennedy Center to celebrate President Obama’s second electoral victory.  In 2018, he was invited to perform with PASO at the International Festival of Tango in Medellin, Colombia.  In 2023, the federal government of Argentina presented Maestro Bušlje with a special recognition, declaring the Pan American Symphony Orchestra of significant national interest for its promotion of Argentine culture in the United States and thus contributing to strengthening cultural ties between the two countries.  Maestro Bušlje has been the creative force behind the Pan American Symphony Orchestra. With his “sure command of the music’s expressive scope” and his sensitive balancing of orchestral commentary, he has “quietly created a valuable Washington institution” (Washington Post). 

Latin GRAMMY Award winner bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Pedro debuted his own tango orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in July 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina.
In 2018 his album ‘Vigor Tanguero‘ won a Latin GRAMMY award for ‘Best Tango Album’. In 2014 Ruben Blades’ CD “Tangos” on which he recorded bass won two Grammys Awards (Best Tango Album & Best Latin Pop). Pedro has collaborated with Pablo Ziegler, Paquito D’Rivera, and Dizzy Gillespie’s protégé William Cepeda, as well as ‘Tango meets Jazz’ guests: Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, Regina Carter, Nestor Torres, Miguel Zenon among many others. Pedro Giraudo has also collaborated as a performer and arranger for one of New York’s most respected institutions: The New York Philharmonic and has played the bass for the magnificent New York City Ballet Orchestra. He has also been the musical director of Tango for All’s ‘Blind’, Mariela Franganillo Company’s “Tango Connection” and “Tango Recuerdo” and performed with U.S.’s most prominent tango ensembles including ‘Forever Tango’, Hector Del Curto’s ‘Eternal Tango’ and Daniel Binelli’s ‘Tango Metropolis’. He has participated in numerous jazz and music festivals throughout the North America, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, and performed in venues such as The Blue Note (Japan & USA), Birdland (Austria), London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Jazz Festival Royale in Thailand, Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Iridium, Jazz Standard, Blue Note, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (NYC). He has played bass on dozens of recordings for the world’s leading labels including Sony, Warner, Nonesuch, Naxos and Harmonia Mundi, as well as for independent projects, and on movies including Oliver Stone’s ‘Wall Street II’. He is also the principal bassist of the Música de Cámara String Orchestra. Pedro Giraudo is endorsed by the gold standard in string makers, D’Addario, and the outstanding Keeley Electronics. Pedro Giraudo plays a 2019 Amati Bass by Tetsu Suzuki and a Registered French bow by Samuel Kolstein (ca. 1950’s) previously owned by Frederick Zimmerman.

Cuban-born pianist Ahmed Alom is a versatile, classically trained pianist who since his arrival to New York City has become one of the leading young figures in piano performance. He pursued his classical piano performance studies at the Manhattan School of Music, as a scholarship student of the Viola B. Marcus Foundation and Flavio Varani Fund for Pianists, under the guidance of Dr. Solomon Mikowsky.
Besides winning First Prize at the XXI Xalapa Piano Competition and the National Chamber Music Competition, both in Mexico, the Maria Clara Cullell Piano Competition in Costa Rica and the UNEAC Piano Competition in Havana, Ahmed also won the Yamaha sponsored Cuevas International Piano Competition in Mexico, the Bradshaw and Buono Competition and the Slatkin/Composers Competition at the Manhattan School of Music, both in New York. Also in New York City, he was a finalist in the 66th Chopin Kosciuszko Foundation Competition, a recipient of the Munz Foundation Competition, and the First Prize winner at the Young Musicians Competition. He made his orchestral debut at age 17 with Mark Belenko conducting the Mexican Philharmonic Orchestra at Nezahualcoyotl Hall, performing the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. 

As a jazz and Latin jazz pianist, he has appeared in festivals in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Costa Rica and Cuba, and performed with Paquito de Rivera (Jazz at Lincoln Center), the MSM Afro Cuban Jazz Band, and Pedrito Martinez Group (RADIO WBGO, ExitZero Jazz Festival). In 2018, he joined Latin Grammy winner Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet. With them, he has performed for The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, The City College of New York, Brooklyn Public Library, Temple University, among others. He has also performed concerts with Marco Granados, Philippe Quint and the Pan American Symphony Orchestra, featuring programs by Argentine composers. In 2022, as member of People of Earth Collective, a multicultural 14-piece band based in New York City, he premiered Dafnis Prieto’s (MacArthur Fellowship) TENTACIÓN, written for the band in collaboration with Musica America’s Conductor of the Year: Teddy Abrams. They performed the piece with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and New World Symphony Orchestra. Also in 2022, he collaborated as a pianist/conductor with Ballet Hispanico, for their world premiere of the Ballet “Doña Perón”, choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa with an original score written by Peter Salem.

Violinist Nick Danielson has forged a distinguished career as both a classical and tango musician. Raised in an Argentine American family in Hartford, Connecticut, he moved to Philadelphia at age 13 to study at the Curtis Institute of Music with the legendary Ivan Galamian. During this time, he won the Philadelphia Orchestra’s concerto competition and performed with the orchestra at age 15. Nick is featured in Stravinsky’s “Concertino” in the Grammy winning recording “Shadow Dances” with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and in multiple Latin Grammy winning recordings with the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet, pianist Fernando Otero, and the Gustavo Casenave Quartet. His duo with bandoneón legend Daniel Binelli was nominated for the Latin Grammy in consecutive years for their albums “Nostalgias” and “Marrón y Azul”. He is also the Associate Concertmaster of the NYC Ballet Orchestra with whom he performs frequently as solo violinist.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Javier Sánchez has been playing the bandoneón for almost 30 years. Between 2005 and 2016, he was a member of the Latin Grammy Award nominee, Rodolfo Mederos’ Orquesta Típica. Sánchez has toured the globe with well-known tango orchestras and tango companies, such as Tango Pasión, Tanguera and Tango Emotion (returning to Japan for 5 consecutive years). Sánchez has played in the most popular tango shows in Buenos Aires, including El Viejo Almacén, Esquina de Carlos Gardel, Café Tortoni, Piazzolla Tango Theater, among others. In 2016, he relocated to the New York metropolitan area and collaborated with a variety of tango groups, the most notable being Aces of Rhythm directed by Pablo Aslan (debuted at Lincoln Center in July of 2017), the Pan American Symphony Orchestra (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.), and the Astoria Tango Orchestra led by Daniel Binelli (11-piece orquesta típica). In August 2016, he won First Prize at the prestigious Che Bandoneon International Competition judged by bandoneón legend, Victor Lavallén. In 2018, Mr. Sanchez became Musical Director of Che Tangazo orchestra based in Montreal, Canada, making its debut in July at Tango BA Festival and World Cup. In the past five years, Mr. Sanchez has also performed with many renowned tango musicians such as Emilio Solla, Oscar Feldman, Héctor del Curto, and Sverre Indris Joner. In 2019, Mr. Sanchez completed arranging a repertoire of tangos specifically for social dancing and put together a tango quartet called Mala Junta that performed in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Juan Sebastián Gómez is a Colombian guitar player and producer. He was born in the city of Ibague, Tolima, and began his musical journey at the age of 10. He pursued a master's degree in music with a focus on jazz at the University of Caldas in Manizales, Colombia. Throughout his life, he has actively participated as a session guitar player with many artists from his country. Currently, he is based in Manassas, Virginia, where he works as a session guitar player and music producer.