Artists biographies
José Gallardo

José Gallardo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Conservatory in Buenos Aires, later he continued his studies with Poldi Mildner at the Department of Music, University of Mainz, Germany, from which he graduated in 1997. In addition he was musically inspired by artists like Menahem Pressler (Trio Beaux Arts, New York), Alfonso Montecino (Bloomington, Indiana), Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (Hanover, Germany), Sergiu Celibidache (Munich, Germany), and Rosalyn Tureck (New York).

José Gallardo received numerous national and international awards, followed by invitations to numerous musical festivals, such as the Festival of Chamber Music in Lockenhaus, the Festival of Asiago in Italy, the International Cello Festival in Kronberg, the Castle Festival in Zwingenberg, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival and the Rheingau Musical Festival. Concerts led in Europe, Asia, Israel, Oceania, and South America. José Gallardo gave concerts in domestic music halls and abroad, amongst these are the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden, the Teatro della Pergola Florence and the Wigmore Hall in London.

On the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the Independence Day of the State Israel, he performed at the Philharmony in Berlin together with Chen Zimbalista.

Already during his academic years José Gallardo discovered his predilection/affectation for chamber music. Chamber musical cooperations find place with the Argentinean violinist Alberto Lysy, who died in 2009, Natascha Korsakova, Friedemann Eichhorn, Sung Hyun-Jung, Julius Berger, Nicolas Altstaedt and Martin Dobner. He is permanent partner of the Israeli percussionist Chen Zimbalista and the German violinst Linus Roth.

He is actively involved in many master courses with Maxim Vengerov, Siegfried Palm, Bernard greenhouse, Steven Isserlis et al.

Since 1998, he is working as assistant professor at the Department of Music, University of Mainz, Germany.