A pupil of Franco Scala at the Accademia Pianistica di Imola, where he currently is a teacher and Vice President. André Gallo gives solo and chamber music concerts. Bryce Morrison, of Gramophone Magazine, describes him as “a masterful pianist with a bold and intriguing personality”. His artistic choices range from the classical repertoire to the historical and contemporary 20th century, with a particular attention to French composers : Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc , Claude Debussy. In 2008 he was a Bayreuth Scholar of the Richard Wagner Association; in 2006 he was awarded the Galarte 2006 Music section of the Presidency of the Italian Republic.
He has been invited by Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, Stoller Hall in Manchester, Auditorium Santa Cecilia in Roma, Teatro Al Bustan in Beirut, Sala Verdi in Milano, Teatro Regio in Torino , Politeama G. Garibaldi of Palermo, Het Klooster of Nuenen, Raanana Center Music, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Teatro dei Filodrammatici of Milano, Teatro G. da Udine of Udine, Teatro Chiabrera of Savona, Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, Teatro Manzoni of Milano, Teatro Manzoni of Bologna, Auditorium San Gottardo of Milano, Teatro Comunale of Vicenza, Teatro Stabile of Verona, Teatro Coccia of Novara, Sala Maffeiana of Verona, Teatro G. Fraschini of Pavia, the Teatro Verdi of Pisa, Steinway Hall of London and the MI.TO Festival of Milano and Torino, Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto, Mantova Chamber Music Festival, Unione Musicale of Torino, Pharos Arts Foundation Cyprus, GOG Giovine Orchestra Genovese, Mantova Musica, Società del Quartetto di Vicenza, Musica Insieme of Bologna, BauArt Festival of Basel, International Music Festival of the Cinque Terre, “Al Bustan” Festival in Lebanon, Associazione Musicale Lucchese, Philharmonic Academy of Bologna and Verona, the Paul Sacher Foundation of Basel.
He is invited by various festivals in France, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Spain, Japan, USA, Holland, Israel,Cyprus, Sweden, Switzerland and Lebanon and as a soloist has collaborated with numerous orchestras including Hamburger Symphoniker, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Manchester Camerata, Württembergische Philharmonie, North Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra Mozart (founded by Claudio Abbado), Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona, Orchestra del Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.
He also plays with various chamber music ensembles , and as a duo with Alda Caiello and the violinist Pierre Amoyal. At l’École Normale de Musique in Paris, he collaborated with ‘Amis de Francis Poulenc’ and members of the Poulenc family. He recorded the complete sonatas for violin and piano by Gabriel Fauré with violinist Francesco Senese.
André Gallo is the protagonist of the documentary ‘Pianists’, produced and broadcast by Sky Classica; he was invited by various radio and televesions music programmes (RAI , Mediaset, Dutch National Television)
He was Guest Professor at the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in Maastricht , has held masterclasses at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur, Belgium. He is in charge of the Imola Piano Academy “Talent development” in Eindhoven.
