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Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Ricardo Rodriguez

Ricardo Rodriguez Biography

Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda was born in 1973 in Caracas (Venezuela) where he studied piano and violoncello at the Escuela de Música “Juan Manuel Olivares”.
At a very young age he discovered his passion for early music and historical instruments, especially the harpsichord and the viola da gamba.
In 1989, he recorded “Les Concerts Royaux” (F. Couperin) the first early music CD recording produced and made in Venezuela with the ensemble Musica Rhetorica.. In the same year he started to work with La Camerata de Caracas and Isabel Palacios. He played with them in many concerts and two recordings. During this period in Venezuela, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda also lead two ensembles, Terpsichore and Acantus and performed concerts in Caracas, Petare and San Juan de Los Morros, Guárico State.
After the European tournée in 1992 with Camerata de Caracas, Ricardo began his studies of viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. For this study he was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Venezuela (CONAC). During this period he participated in projects with Ton Koopman, William Christie and Nederlands Dans Theater. Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda took Master classes with Jordi Savall in Spain. In 1998 he received the Teachers and Performers Diploma and began to study Musicology for 4 years at the University of Utrecht.
Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda plays regularly with Cantus Cölln (Dir. Konrad Junghänel), L’Armonia Sonora (Dir. Mieneke van der Velden) and Vox Luminis (Dir. Lionel Menier).
He has performed as a soloist in the St. Matthew’s Passion with several Dutch orchestras like the Residentie Orkest and Nederlands Kamerorkest, lead by conductors such as Peter Schreier, Sir Colin Davies, Arnold Östman, Richard Egarr, Jan Willem De Vriend, Jaap Hillen, Erik van Nevel, Jos Vermunt and Johan Rooze.
Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda has participated in many CD recordings which have been awarded with Diapason D’or (Camerata de Caracas, Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Leclair’s Violin Sonatas), Diapasons, Le monde de la Musique, Gramophone Editor’s Choice (L’Armonia Sonora) BBC Music Choice (Cantus Coelln) and Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik 2008 (Vox Luminis).
Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda’s repertoire extends from the Middle Ages, the Great Masters of the Baroque Era, compositions of Calliope Tsoupaki to own improvisations on the viola da gamba based on Early Music and the music of his native Venezuela. At the moment, he performes regularly and teaches viola da gamba and piano privately.

Ricardo Rodriguez