BIOGRAPHY
“Pablo Galdo is an excellent musician and a brilliant pianist, with whom I shared the stage. In addition to his pianistic capacity, I highlight his great musical intuition (Martha Argerich, 2020)
“Pablo Galdo is an exceptional pianist of great technique, with the musicality of a real artist, that additionaly has the capacity to communicate to the audience with great facility, which makes him a complete pianist” (Tamás vásáry, 2018)
“I was lucky enough to listen to the remarkable pianist Pablo Galdo. His technical abilities are excellent and he is able to move any audience musically”. He is a first class musician (Cyprien katsaris, 2020)
“I heard the brilliant young pianist Pablo Galdo playing and I was really impressed. A really welcomed new star in the pianistic world” (Philippe Entremont, 2021)
He was born in Ferrol (La Coruña). He studied at the “Vigo Superior Conservatoire”,where he graduated with special
distinction and extraordinary prize, at the “University de Alcalá de Henares”, at the “Zoltán Kodály Institute”, at the “Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest”, at the “Mozarteum University in Salzburg”, where he obtained his Postgraduate Diplom, and at the “Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow” (Russia) . His professor included Nicasio Gradaille, Ferenc Rados, Rita Wagner, András kemenes, Imre Rohmann and Elisso Wirssaladze.
Besides he has received classes and advices from many renowned and prestigious international masters, including Alicia de Larrocha, Zoltán Kocsis , Tamás Vasáry, Dimitri Bashkirov, Várjon Dénes, Heinz Kämmerling,, Marta Gulyás, Haewon Song, and Almudena Cano, among others.
He has performed in France, Greece, Portugal, Costa Rica, Australia, Spain, United Kingdom, Iceland, China, South Korea, Russia, Slovenia, Australia, Ukraine, Sudafrica, Latvia, Vietnam, India, Croatia, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Oman, Kuwait, Italy, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Lebanon, Republic of Iran, Lithuania, Turkey, Argentina, Uruguay and the United States. He has performed with different orchestras in Spain, Hungary, Germany and Austria, and he has been finalist and awarded in various piano competitions.
He has represented Spain abroad on numerous occasions, being invited to inaugurate the "Aula Cervantes Reykjavik", performing for the President of Iceland, performing within the "Spanish Language Week" in Slovenia, to celebrate the National Day of Spain in Hungary, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Spain and Kazakhstan, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of new relations between Spain and Russia, the 100t anniversary of beginning of relations between South Africa and Spain, the 100 anniversary of relations between Latvia and Spain, and the 45th anniversary of relations between Vietnam and Spain.
He has played 4 hands and 2 pianos with pianists as Martha Argerich , Zoltán Kocsis, Stephen kovacevich, Lilya Zilberstein, Tamás Vásáry, Cyprien Katsaris, Philippe Entremont, Jorge Luis Prats, Imre Rohmann, Sergio Tiempo or András kemenes, with cellist Asier Polo or violist Rocío Gomez, or baritone Luis Alberto Llaneza, among others.
Also he was selected to participate in concert cycles and festivals such as ¨Jeneusses Musicales" (97.98), "Teresa Berganza Association"(99), "Young talents of Budapest in the Buda Castle” (01) “Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation" (04) and the "Juan March Foundation" (07), Izmir festival (2018), Kharkiv musical Assemblies (2018), Costa Rica Piano Festival (2019), Gümüslük Festival in Turkey (2021), Ferrol no Camiño (2021), among others.
He has currently recorded a DVD, produced by IRIS, of works by Albéniz, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, a CD produced by MANS with works of Bach, Chopin and Liszt, and other CD produced by the same discography with works of Albéniz. He has also recorded for the Spanish Television, Galician Television and Hungarian Radio. The composer Saúl Chapela has dedicated him his piano composition “22 variations on two cells”.
Pablo Galdo has given master classes at the ¨Tchaikovsky Conservatory“ in Moskow, “ Frederick Chopin University” in Warsaw, “Academy of Arts of Iceland”, “Buchmann-Mehta school” in Israel, “Istanbul State Conservatory”, “Tbilisi State Conservatory”, “Music Academy of Baku”, at ESMAE University in Porto, at the “Baremboim-Said Foundation” in Palestine, at the the “National Conservatory of Jordan”, “National Conservatory of Lebanon”, “Verona Conservatory of music”, at the “Academy of Music and Theater of Vilnius” (Lithuania), “Yahsar University in Izmir” (Turkey), “Macedonian University in Thesalonika” (Greece), “Kharkiv National University of Arts”, “National Music Academy of Estonia", “Sydney Conservatory of music”, "National University of Kazakhstan", “Costa Rica National University”, "Superior School of Music of Neuquén" (Argentine), “University of Music and Theatre of Timisoara”, “Hamburg University of Music and Theatre”, “Anadolu University”, “Trinity Laban Conservatpry of Music and Dance”, “Royal Danish Music Academy”, and in different Music institutions across Spain. He is regular guest professor at the International Music Academy “Forum Musikae” in Madrid, International Piano Festival in Costa Rica, Talent Music Summer Courses and festival in Brescia, Malta Classical Music Academy in Malta, Altalena Music Festival in Hungary, Gümüslük Festival in Turkey, Loop Piano Festival in Croatia, among others. He was jury member in several international competitions as City of Vigo and Ferrol in Spain, Grieg Competition in Norway, Petrof Competition in China., Mozarte Competition in Germany, Gerswin Competition in USA, Loop International in Croatia, Sonja Pahor in Italy, Thymis in Greece, among others. Among his students there are prize winners of national and international competitions.
He is artistic director, since January 2016, of the Galician Classical Music Association, founder of “Vigo
International music Festival” and artistic director and president jury at international Vigo competition “City of Vigo”, and artistic director and president of jury of Ferrol International Piano Competition. He is also the founder and artistic director of Online Piano Masterclass Academy, an online academy which includes some of the most renowned piano professors in the world.
Recently, he was awarded with the “Gregorio Baudot prize” to his artistic career (2016), with the Gold badge of Ferrol (2017) , the silver medal at the Global music awards to the category of classical pianist and instrumentist (years 2017 and 2018). In 2020, he was awarded as Galician of the year.
He currently combines his concert activity with his position as piano professor at the “Superior Conservatory of Music in A Coruña” (Galicia, Spain), at Superior Center Katarina Gurska, at the "Alfonso X the Wise University" , both in Madrid