José Gallardo
Born in Buenos Aires, José Gallardo first began studying piano at the Conservatory in Buenos Aires. Later on, he studied with Poldi Mildner at the Department of Music at the University of Mainz and received his diploma in 1997.
Gallardo has won numerous national and international awards. Invitations to tours and festivals followed, including the Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, the Verbier Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, and the Schwetzinger Festspiele. His extensive activities as a concert pianist and chamber musician have brought him together with musicians such as Vilde Frang, Daishin Kashimoto, Barnabás Kelemen, Gidon Kremer, Linus Roth, Benjamin Schmid, Carolin Widmann, Nils Mönkemeyer, Tomoko Akasaka, Andreas Ottensammer, Nicolas Altstaedt, Julius Berger, Maximilian Hornung, Benedict Klöckner, and Miklós Perényi. He has taken part in recordings with Warner, Deutsche Grammophon, Challenge Records Int., Genuin, Neon, Oehms Classics and Naxos as well as television and radio productions for BR, SWR, MDR, BBC, RAI, and other broadcasters. From 1998 to 2008 he was a lecturer in Mainz; since autumn 2008 he teaches at the Leopold-Mozart- Center of the University of Augsburg.
Together with Andreas Ottensamer, he has been artistic director of the chamber music festival Bürgenstock Festival in Lucerne since 2013.
Gallardo has won numerous national and international awards. Invitations to tours and festivals followed, including the Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, the Verbier Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, and the Schwetzinger Festspiele. His extensive activities as a concert pianist and chamber musician have brought him together with musicians such as Vilde Frang, Daishin Kashimoto, Barnabás Kelemen, Gidon Kremer, Linus Roth, Benjamin Schmid, Carolin Widmann, Nils Mönkemeyer, Tomoko Akasaka, Andreas Ottensammer, Nicolas Altstaedt, Julius Berger, Maximilian Hornung, Benedict Klöckner, and Miklós Perényi. He has taken part in recordings with Warner, Deutsche Grammophon, Challenge Records Int., Genuin, Neon, Oehms Classics and Naxos as well as television and radio productions for BR, SWR, MDR, BBC, RAI, and other broadcasters. From 1998 to 2008 he was a lecturer in Mainz; since autumn 2008 he teaches at the Leopold-Mozart- Center of the University of Augsburg.
Together with Andreas Ottensamer, he has been artistic director of the chamber music festival Bürgenstock Festival in Lucerne since 2013.
Award winner of the Leopold Mozart Competition