Oscar Roberto Casares was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1954, he studied Guitarra with Maria Luisa Anido, chamber music and interpretation with Mrs. Monina Tovara, (Adolfina Raitzin), Course at Conservatorio Nazionale of Musica Carlos Lopez Buchardo, harmony with Jorge Tsilicas.
Together with his borther Luis, he formed the “Duo De Guitarras De Los Hermanos Casares”, playing in the most important theatres and concerts hall of all Argentina receiving the approval from the public and from specialized critics. In 1978, October they performed a show in the Salon De Argentina as tribute to the famous Miguel Llobet playing all the compositions of Albeniz and Granados realized for the Catalan musician, organized at the Circolo Guitarristico Argentino.
The famous Argentinian composer, that was a student of Manuel de Falla, Juan Jose Ramos, dedicated to the duet the “Suit Argentina”.
Oscar Casares has been President of the Circolo Guitarristico Argentino, he teached Guitarra at the College Santa Rosa in Lima and at the Centro de Galicia in Buenos Aires.
He created the Familia de la Guitarra, it is the result of a deep research in five century of history of the guitar, he built three types of guitars that were missing to complete the “family”, the High Guitar, A tuned, the Low Guitar, A tuned, and the Bass Guitar, E tuned.
Using this “family”, he created some original compositions and arrangements of Mozart, Guastavino, Piazzolla, Albeniz, Vivaldi, Turina, etc. He encourages also other composers to write for the new chamber formation, like Jorge Tagliapietra and Sergio Mateos, he founded in Buenos Aires Guitarra Ensamble, an Ensamble Guitarristico of the Comune of Bariloche, the Ensamble of the Conservatorio of Cafayate and the Orquestra de Instumentos Regionales of Salta.
He has been invited by the composier Jose Luis Castineira de Dios to record the soundtrack of the film “El Rigor del Destino” and “La Noche de los Lapices”.
Some musicians, that followed his advice as Master, to exhibit themselves at International competitive exam are: Pablo Marquez, 1° Place in Paris, the Napolitan Edoardo Catemario, 1° Place Concorso Pittaluga in the city of Alessandria - Italy - and 1° Place at the Concorso Andres Segovia in Palma de Mallorca, Jeronimo Ginzburg, 1° Place Mozart in Verona - Italy - and Miguel Arola first viola of the Orchestra of Palma de Mallorca - Spain.
In 1988 he moved to Europe and he decided to live in the city of Casale Monferrato - Italy - where he begun to work as concertist and composer.
During his concerts he playes not only classic composers but also Argentinian composers as Atahualpa Yupanqui, Astor Piazzolla, Eduardo and Juan Falu, Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Ginastera, Abel Fleury, Ariel Ramirez, Gerardo Cuchi Leguizamon. Milano, Roma, Torino, Napoli, Genova, Firenze, Verona, Bologna clapped his exhibitions.
He playes together with the folk guitar player Miguel Acosta, he found the trio Cuerdas del Plata together with his wife, the singer and dancer Andrea Judith Man, realizing concerts dedicated to Sefaradi Music and to traditional Argentinian Tango.
For ARSmusic, he recorded the Tango Suite of Astor Piazzolla together with the guitar player Edoardo Catemario, the flautist Roberto Fabbriciani, recorded El Gordo triste, Fuga e Misterio of Astor Piazzolla arranged by da Oscar Casares.
He has been invited at the Guitar Palace in Japan, he organizes concerts in Tokio, Osaka and Asato for two consecutive years, ending in 1999 and recording in the main hall of the Guitar Palace a CD titled “Tango Argentino y Astor Piazzolla”.
Masters Edoardo Catemario and Flavio Cucchi recorded a CD with his compositions like the Concierto Sefaradi, Las 7 Canciones Sefaradies & Danza, L'ultima Strada, Son a Tango. Recently he recorded together with the Italian violoncellist Erika Patrucco, “Birdtango”, and on behalf of the Barrio Tanguero of Torino “Un Tango para Milonguita”, included in the Tangos to celebrate the first ten years of the first Italian Association for Argentinian Tango.
Oscar Roberto Casares is a composer, arranger, guitar player and guitar maker, some of his last compositions are Recuerdos de Yasato, Guaperia for quartetto de chitarras (A-A-E-A bassa), Invocacion & Tango, metodologia forr Quartetto & Ensamble of Guitars. (2011)

Compositeur et guitariste, il est né en 1954 à Buenos Aires. Elève de Maria Luisa Anido et de Jorge Tsilicas, il a fait partie du duo de Los Hermanos Casares formé par “Mimita” et a étudié avec la Senora Tavora qui avait formé les frères Abreu et les frères Assad au Brésil. Installé désormais en Italie, il se livre à la composition depuis plusieurs années. Il a écrit un Concerto Séfaradi - enregistré comme les Chansons Séfarades par Eduardo Catemario (C.D. OPTI.ME.S, Italie) - et aussi nombre d'oeuvres pour guitare seule, quatuors à cordes et guitare, chant et guitare, etc. (Les Cahiers de la Guitare et de la Musique n°64/1997)