Magda Community Artz, Guitar Brisbane and Brisbane International Guitar Festival are rounding off a huge year with an extra-ordinary coup! For one concert only: Jose Maria Gallardo Del Rey.
When: Saturday 25th November at Magda Community Artz, 80 Boundary Rd, Bardon. Bookings.
With Thibaut Garcia on Friday 24th November, this will be a weekend of classical guitar that will delight all music lovers. Diarize both evenings, NOW!
A Master Class with Jose Maria may be available on Sunday 26th. (Watch this space.)
Since his début in Seville at the age of nine, Jose Maria has achieved universal public and critical acclaim. A classically trained musician, it is his intense relationship with the world of Flamenco that has enriched his playing and created a unique way of playing and listening to Spanish music. José Maria Gallardo Del Rey has made a significant impact on the guitar world, and his contributions include projects like “Pasión Espanola” with Plácido Domingo (Grammy Latino 2008), “Habanera Gipsy” with Elina Garança (2010), “Caprichos Líricos” with Teresa Berganza, and his role as director and artistic adviser to Paco de Lucía for the latter’s Japanese début with the Concierto de Aranjuez in 1990.
As a mature artist with a profound affinity for all aspects of the guitar, he has become a leading authority on the instrument among conductors and players alike, and a soloist in great demand by orchestras throughout the world.
Sir Neville Marriner, Philippe Entremont, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Ros Marbá, Garcia Asensio, Josep Pons, José Ramón Encinar, Leo Brouwer and Karel Mark Chichón are among the many great names with whom he has played, and he has made regular concert appearances with orchestras such as ONE, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta de la RAI, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Ton Halle de Zurich, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta de Cadaqués, ORTVE, Orquestas de la Comunidad y Sinfónica de Madrid, Orchestre Nationale Belgique and Radio Phil Saarbrücken.
In 2005, together with another major Flamenco guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares, he starred in “Mano a Mano”, with highly successful appearances in London , Washington , Osaka and Tokyo , ending with a spectacular concert in New York ‘s Carnegie Hall. In March 1997 he was invited to play in Paris with Menuhin, Rampal, Ozawa and Elton John in Rostropovich’s seventieth birthday celebration, and appeared with John Williams in Australia ‘s prestigious International Guitar Festival in Darwin in 1995 and 1997.
A Deutsche Grammophon artist, he has recorded “The Trees Speak” and “14 Maneras de Echarte de Menos”, and has just finished his latest disc with La Maestranza, “My Spain”, with best critics and public acclaim. His previous discography includes a wide variety of works, for companies such as Mandala, RTVE, Autor, Almaviva and BMG, who issued his recordings of Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto and Concierto de Aranjuez in 1998.
His master classes have been in great demand in the world’s foremost conservatories and universities, and centres like UIMP de Santander, “Proyect Canción Española” in Granada , Mannes Conservatory of Music in New York and Northridge University in Los Angeles are among his regular masterclass venues.