31 W Ohio
Chicago, Illinois 60610

Ricardo Gallén studied guitar and ancient music at the Universities of Salzburg (Mozarteum) and Munich with the Masters Fisk, Eglhuber, Spiri, Gilbert, Huebscher and Clerch, graduating in 1999 in the Master Class from the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich, Germany with Joaquin Clerch. He has given recitals and played in concerts under the direction of well-known conductors such as Maximiano Valdés or Sergiu Comisiona . He has realized five CDs for NAXOS Label, in which he interprets, among others, music by Giuliani, Brouwer, Takemitsu, as well as all of the concerts for guitar and orchestra by the Spanish master Joaquin Rodrigo. He is presently a professor of Master Degree at the Extremadura University in Spain and Professor Assistant of Eliot Fisk at the “Mozarteum” University in Salzburg, Austria.

Official Website: http://chicago.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha50796_47_2.htm

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