Hector Castro was born in the town of 9 de Julio in the province of Buenos Aires. At age three, his family moved to the neighborhood Villa Pueyrredon in the capital. He began his bandoneon classes and general music education at age 14 with Eladio Blanco, who was the first bandoneon in the D’Arienzo orchestra. A few years later, Tito began his professional career playing with neighborhood orchestras like Horacio Vacarezza’s and Marcos Bagnolo’s. At age 18 he started playing in the Osmar Maderna Orquesta, Simbolo, where he stayed for three years. He continued with the Lucio Demare’s and Fulvio Salamanca’s orchestras and substituted bandoneon players ir Hector Varela and Juan Sanchez Gorio.
His first international tours was with Josecito Pace quartet in Lima-Peru in 1964. Tito has accompanied singers and orchestras all over Latin America. Among them he has played with many of the greatest legends of tango such as Hugo del Carril, Libertad Lamarque , Alberto Marino, Charlo, Alberto Castillo, Raul Beron, Nelly Vasquez, Alberto Podesta , Juan C.Godoy and Roberto Goyeneche.
He moved to NYC in 1998, where he performs in theaters, universities, museums, private events and milongas. He performed with his ensemble in the homage to Argentina in a gala at the Metropolitan Opera. In Canada, Tito performed in the show Tango Vivo and in Miami in the show Tango Dreams.
He has collaborated in the soundtrack of "Flawles”, starring Robert de Niro. And most recently in the soundtrack of Lust, Cuation directed by Ang Lee. He also recorded in the CD Tango Bar with Raul Jaurena quintet, which was nominated in 2002 for a grammy award.
Tito has recorded four CDs of the series Tangos para Milongueros with Francisco Pancho Navarro as well as in Peru with Josecito Pace quartet. He has performed in many galas of the Argentine Tango Society of New York, hosted by Mr. Joseph Fish at the Metropolitan Club, featuring in one occasion the Argentine poet Horacio Ferrer as well as actor and tango enthusiast Robert Duvall.
He has accompanied in two occasions the Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa at Carnegie Hall and tenor Placido Domingo at the Washington Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House in NY.
Tito toured Japan and Hawaii in 2004 and 2005 with Japanese tango singer Anna Saeki, with whom he has also performed at Carnegie Hall and at the famous jazz club Blue Note in NYC. Recently he participated in the recording of her new CD, which was presented to the audiences in Japan and Korea tour in December of 2005.
In January 2005 Tito performed with the great argentine dancer Julio Bocca at the Ballet Theater of the City of New York, followed by a series of performances at the Viviann Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
