Jimena Giménez Cacho is a Mexican cellist dedicated since childhood to music. She began playing instruments such as the piano, jarocha harp and flute, only to finally turn completely to the cello. She studied in Mexico and later in France, Germany and Spain, attending the Scola Cantorum in Paris, the Volkswang Hochschule in Essen as well as the Staatliche Hochschule in Freiburg.

She graduated from the Real Conservatorio in Madrid. Her teachers include Lluis Claret, Janos Starker, Maria Kliegel, Christoph Henkel, Marcial Cervera and Paul Friedhoff.She performed in orchestras such as the Symphonic Orchestra of Valladolid, the Symphonic Orchestra of Baleares, the Mexico City Philharmonic and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Minería. Especially dedicated to chamber music, Giménez Cacho formed part of the String Quartett of the National Institute for the Fine Arts. She has also become renowned for her study and publication of musical repertoire related to the cello and for her discovery and dissemination of lesser-known composers. In Mexico alone she has premiered the works of over twenty artists. Her concerts always follow a thematic unity, in either a historical or geographical sense. For example, in El nacimiento del violoncello (“The birth of the cello”) and later in De Frescobaldi a Schnittke (“From Frescobaldi to Schnittke”) she traced the evolving historical forms of interpretation, in part by using period instruments (the baroque as well as the modern cello). Her work Tres generaciones de música mexicana (“Three generations of Mexican music”), a compilation of Mexican works for cello, is designed to uncover the instrument’s voices in her own country’s history. In Ecos del mundo (“Echoes of the world”), seeking to contrast the diverse voices of the cello, she sampled compositions from six different countries and time periods. Perhaps her greatest passion relates to the dissemination of the works of contemporary composers, including Marcela Rodríguez from Mexico, Toshiro Mayuzumi from Japan and John Tavener from England, as well as baroque composers such as Italian composers such as Caldara, Torelli, Jacchini, Antonii, among others. Her concerts are usually conceived as integral spectacles that interweave the musical theme with lighting and dress.

She also occasionally incorporates other art forms, such as poetry (in her El amor y la muerte, “Love and death”), dance and theater, the latter of which she practiced during a one-year stay with the Lindsay Kemp Theater Company. Her interest in participating in concerts of other musical genres, including Mexican popular music, blues and rock, is also worth mentioning. She has recorded three discs: Música Española (“Spanish music”), El Amor y la Muerte (“Love and death”) and Ecos del Mundo (“Echoes of the world”).

Her last album is "Seis casi Sonatas  en Cuartos de Tono " para violoncello solo de Julián Carrillo

To Jimena Giménez Cacho, the cello represents one of the profoundest voices found among the sounds of this earth; it is a voice she is able to employ in order to express the tenderness, love, yearning, melancholy and all other sentiments and sensations stemming from her most inner self.