Juan Manuel Quintana is a gambist born in 1972 in Buenos Aires. He studied viola di gamba with Ricardo Massun in Argentina and pursued further studies in Geneva with Arianne Maurette, at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Paolo Pandolfo and finally at the Paris Conservatoire with Christophe Coin.
He has played with well known ensembles such as the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Concerto Vocale, Hespèrion XXI and Les Musiciens du Louvre where he assisted Mark Minkowski from 1995 to 2005. His recordings such as Quintana’s Bach, Buxtehude and Marais albums were noticed.