Ricardo Gallén

李卡多.盖伦1972年出生于西班牙。4岁起跟随父亲Manuel Gallen学习吉他，5岁首次公开登台，10岁时进入利纳雷斯音乐学院跟随Tomas Villajos Soler学习。随后他在西班牙就读了多所音乐学校，接着到奥地利萨尔斯堡的莫扎特音乐学院和慕尼黑的音乐学院继续学习，同时跟随吉他演奏家兼作曲家 Joaquin Clerch学习作曲。李卡多.盖伦在欧洲举办了多场独奏音乐会，并经常与欧洲顶尖的管弦乐团合作演出发表新的吉他协奏曲作品，此外他还经常出现在电视和广播电台的节目中。近年来，李卡多.盖伦多次在国际比赛上获奖，包括1998年的阿尔罕布拉吉他比赛，1998年塞歌维亚国际吉他大赛，1997年Paco Marin吉他比赛，1997年的Markneukirchen国际吉他大赛以及1999年的泰雷加国际吉他大赛首奖，成为西班牙新生代吉他家中的佼佼者。
 
Ricardo Jesús Gallén García (12 March 1972), is a Spanish classical guitarist who has been active since the mid-1990s. He is currently a Professor of Guitar at the Hochschule für Musik &Franz Liszt&, Weimar, Germany.
 
Gallén was born in Linares, Jaén, Spain in 1972. He started playing classical guitar at the age of four, performing in public just a year later. At the age of ten he entered the Conservatory of Music in Cordoba, receiving his first formal music education by the Conservatory's director and founder Tomás Villajos Soler. He continued his studies at the Conservatories of Jaén, Cordoba, Madrid and Granada, studying under Professors Victor Valls, Miguel Barbero, Demetrio Ballesteros and Carmelo Martinez and at the same time he attended a number of master classes both in Spain and abroad. He studied guitar and ancient music at the Universities of Mozarteum University of Salzburg  and Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, with the Masters Eliot Fisk, Christoph Eglhuber, Jürgen Hübscher and Joaquin Clerch. In 1999 he completed the Meisterklassendiplom (Konzertexam) in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, under Joaquin Clerch.
 
During the years 2001 - 2006 he worked as a Professor in Ramon Llull University, Spain (Escola Luthier). He became an Assistant Professor in the class of Eliot Fisk in the Mozarteum University of Salzburg  (2004 - 2009). He also served as a Professor at the University of Extremadura, Spain (2005 - 2013) and was a Guest Professor in the Conservatories, Superior de Música en Palma de Mallorca  and, Superior de Música de Aragón, Zaragoza, in Spain, during the years 2011 -2013. Since 2009, Ricardo Gallén is a Professor in the Hochschule für Musik &Franz Liszt&, Weimar, Germany.
 
Gallén has given numerous recitals all over the world, in solo performances, duets, or with orchestras, under the direction of well known conductors, such as Maximiano Valdes, En Shao, Juan Jose Mena, Monica Huggett, Leo Brouwer, Jordi Savall and Seirgiu Comisiona, in more than 30 countries throughout Europe and America, including Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, USA, Costa Rica, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel, in important concert halls like the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, National National Auditorium of Music, in Madrid, L'Auditori and Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Shostakovich Hall in Saint Petersburg and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow.
 
Gallén has been a member of the jury in several International Guitar Competitions and has given a number of master classes in several countries including Austria, Germany, Poland, Israel, USA, Chile, Lebanon, Portugal, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, France, Greece, Romania, Spain, Finland, France, Australia, New Zealand.
 
His first album, was one of Naxos Records best-selling albums in 2001 and received sensational reviews in the specialized press. It was followed by five more albums published by Naxos, in which he performs music by Mauro Giuliani, Leo Brouwer, Toru Takemitsu, etc., as well as all of the concerts for guitar and orchestra by the Spanish Maestro Joaquin Rodrigo. In 2013 his double CD with the Bach Complete Lute Suites  was released with Sunnyside Records and in May 2014 his last CD, Fernando Sor - Guitar Sonatas was released, by Eudora Records.
He has also recorded for Radio and Television in various countries including Spain, Finland, Belgium, Romania, Germany, Cuba, Mexico, South Korea and Bulgaria.
 
Ricardo Gallén plays a classical guitar by Paco Santiago Marín  and a romantic guitar by Arnoldo García  with Savarez Alliance Strings.
 
Gallén has participated in over twenty international guitar competitions, having won five first prize awards including: the 32nd Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition (1997), the 14th Andrés Segovia International Classical Guitar Competition (1998), where he also got a Special Prize, the Fourth Alhambra International Guitar Competition  (1998), the 33rd Francisco Tarrega International Guitar Contest (1999), where he also got the Special Audience Prize and the 11th International Guitar Competition (2002), where he also got five special prizes.