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Cosimo Lingardo completed his musical studies at the Conservatory of Salerno and Naples graduating in Double Bass, Composition, Music applied to multimedia contexts, Trombone. He has been a teacher of Music Education, Coontrabbasso, Musical Technologies, Ensemble Music at the Secondary Schools of I and II degree and of "Music Videowriting and Computerized Publishing" at the Conservatory of Music "Martucci" of Salerno (headquarters of Vallo della Lucania); at the moment he holds the chair of "Theory, analysis and composition" at the Liceo Musicale "Pisacane" in Sapri. He has participated in many Masterclasses and made numerous concerts both in Italy and abroad. Lingardo has received numerous awards for his works, including the first prize of the "Terenzio Gargiulo" composition competition in 2012.
He has composed electronic music, symphonic, choral and chamber works. The music of Cosimo Lingardo refuses to submit to any linguistic dogma, including those of the official avant-garde, from which, however, it does not refuse to borrow some technical and discursive details. Lingardo is a musician who loves "contamination", and has often based his works on distinctive elements of multiple stylistic languages.