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"Where words leave off, music begins." - Heinrich Heine

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, José Gallardo started piano lessons at the age of five, at first at the Conservatory in Buenos Aires. Later he continued his studies with Prof. Poldi Mildner in the Faculty of Music at the University of Mainz, completing his diploma in 1997. Even then he realised his first love would be for chamber music.
His musical inspiration came from such artists as Menahem Pressler, Alfonso Montecino, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Sergiu Celibidache, Rosalyn Tureck and Bernard Greenhouse.
José Gallardo has won many national and international awards. Invitations followed for numerous tours and festivals, including the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Asiago Festival in Italy, the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Kronberg Cello Festival, and the Rheingau Music Festival.
He is very busy playing recitals and concerts, including chamber music appearances with other musicians in Europe, Asia, Israel, Oceania and South America, among them Alberto Lysy, Gidon Kremer, Chen Zimbalista, Julius Berger, Danjulo Ishizaka, Nicolas Altstaedt and many more. Concert halls he has played in include the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Hamburg Musikhalle, the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Teatro della Pergola Florence and the Wigmore Hall London. From 1998 to 2008, he taught in the faculty of music at the University of Mainz; since autumn 2008, he has been teaching at the Leopold Mozart Zentrum in the University of Augsburg.

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Mieczysław Weinberg
Light in Darkness
Linus Roth
Various composers
Virtuoso Dances
Linus Roth & José Gallardo
Dmitri Shostakovich, Mieczysław Weinberg
Solo Sonatas for Violin nos. 1 - 3
Linus Roth
Mieczysław Weinberg, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Dmitri Shostakovich
Wartime Consolations
Linus Roth / Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn / José Gallardo
Complete sonatas and works
Linus Roth / José Gallardo
Johannes Brahms
Sonatas for violin & piano
Linus Roth & José Gallardo
The unkown Beethoven - Works for violoncello & piano
Julius Berger & José Gallardo
Robert Schumann
Sonatas for violin and piano op. 105 & 121 - 4 song arrangements
Linus Roth / José Gallardo

Videos

'Wartime Consolations' Linus Roth tells the story of solace