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The Uruguayan guitarist José Ignacio Fernández Bardesio, has studies by Oribe Dorrego, Eduardo Fernández, Abel Carlevaro, Guido Santórsola and René Marino Rivero. A scholarship from the Federal Republic of Germany enabled him to go to the Cologne College of Music, where he completed his research studies with Hubert Käppel. He the first prize in many major international competitions, including the major and renowned Alirio Díaz Competition (Venezuela), Andrés Segovia Competition, Ciudad de Orense (Spain) and the Infanta Cristina Competition in Madrid (Spain).
Since his debut in the USA and Spain in 1984, José Fernández Bardesio gives recitals and concerts with orchestras in America, South America, Asia and Europe. He has worked with the conductors Piero Gamba, Nikolas Rauss, Fernando Condon, Yashikazu Fukumura, Eduardo Marturet, among others. He regularly appears at international guitar festivals and gives master-classes; among others at the Radio France Festival, the Bolívar Festival in London, Nürnberg Gitarre International, guitar festivals in South America and performs at important halls like the Royal Festival Hall (London), Cologne Philharmonie, Teatro Teresa Carreño (Caracas), Hall of the Americas (Washington D.C.) and Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York).
José Fernández Bardesio has made numerous recordings for radio and television stations in the USA, Spain, China and France, among others, as well as commercial recordings in USA, Spain and Germany. His two latest CDs are edited by the label Hänssler Classic. The German publishing house Hofmeister Music Editions has been editing his compositions since 2010. He currently lives in Lives in Cologne, Germany. |
