Joshua Gindele
cello
Cellist Joshua Gindele, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, began his cello studies at the age of three, playing a viola his teacher had fitted with an endpin. As cellist for the Miró Quartet, Mr. Gindele has taken first prizes at several national and international competitions, including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the Miró Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Mr. Gindele has shared the stage with some of the classical world’s most renowned artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, The New York Philharmonic, Pinchas Zuckerman, Joshua Bell, Midori, Andre Watts, and Menahem Pressler. He continues to perform across four continents and on some of the world’s most prestigious concert stages.
The Miró Quartet began recording the complete Beethoven String Quartets in 2004 and released the first volume, featuring Opus 18, in 2005. The completed cycle, released as an 8-CD set in 2019, represents not only Beethoven’s journey as a composer, but also a 15-year journey for the Quartet.
In 2006, Mr. Gindele co-founded classicallounge.com. This was an online networking site where you could meet musicians, both professional and amateur, discover new talent or get discovered, share music, post and get concert information, share opinions, post classified ads, and more. The site was sold to classicalconnection.com in August of 2009.
Deeply committed to music education, the Miró Quartet is currently the Faculty String Quartet-in-Residence at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.
An active gym rat and tennis player, Mr. Gindele is married to Rebecca Gindele, and they have a son and daughter, George and Nora.