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Ricardo Gallardo
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RICARDO GALLARDO, percussionist Born in Mexico City, Ricardo Gallardo studied at The Conservatory and The School of Music of The University of Mexico. To date, he has performed widely in the Americas and Europe in solo concerts, record releases, as well as in radio and T.V. broadcasts. He also studied in Canada, on a Scholarship from The Banff Centre for The Fine Arts, where he played and collaborated with outstanding musicians and composers. He moved to London where he completed a Masters Degree in Performance at The City University . In 1993, he founded Tambuco, one of the world's leading percussion ensembles today. At present , Ricardo Gallardo performs constantly in Europe and the Americas, collaborating closely with several composers on new percussion pieces that are written specially for him. |
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to his outstanding
activity as percussionist, he has
received several awards such as The Mexican Council for the Arts
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Culture scholarship , The British Council fellowship, the
Stipendienpreis and Kranichsteiner preis by the Darmstadt New Music
Institute, The University of Mexico's distinction for artistic creation
and the Mozart Gold Medal, awarded by the Austrian Embassy and Domecq
Cultural Institute. Ricardo Gallardo is one of the most dynamic percussionist of today and one of Latin-America's leading performers. He has recorded as soloist in special radio broadcasts for The Canadian Broadcasting corporation (CBC), National Radio of Spain, Swedish Radio, South Germany and Mexican Radio corporations. He has performed in some of the most important new music festivals in Europe and America amongst which can be mentioned: Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico; Het Slagwerk Festival in Holland; Electrifying Exotica Festival, The Nettlefold Festival and The Henley Festival in England; Voices in Scotland; Festival International de Musique Experimentale in Bourges, France; Elektrisk Helg, in Sweden; Percussive Arts Society International Convention in the USA; Festival Europalia in Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland; Festival Latinoamericano de Música in Venezuela; The ISCM World Music Days in Mexico City; and Festival Inventionen in Berlin; The Green Umbrella concerts in LA plus many performances as soloists with symphony orchestras. The repertoire of Ricardo Gallardo includes all principal works for solo percussion, percussion concerti and diverse chamber music combinations. He has commissioned a great number of pieces written by Latin American and European composers who often employ ethnic percussion instruments, combined with electronic and computer media resources. Both as soloist as well as artistic director of Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, Ricardo Gallardo focuses his priorities on expanding the creation of music for percussion and its performance for all audiences, as well as promoting percussion works of Latin-American composers. Press Reviews: “With no doubt, one of the best Mexican Musicians of our time” La Jornada (Mexico) “Ricardo Gallardo offered a stunning virtuoso performance” Sonic Arts (England) “Enormous musical quality, an artistic experience of vast dimensions” La Jornada (Mexico) "Ricardo Gallardo gave us virtuosic and colourful performances, without cultural atavisms, and with a great rhythmic complexity" Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany) |
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