Llorca, Ricardo

Ricardo Llorca is one of the most promising talents to emerge from the new generation of contemporary Spanish-American composers. Llorca was born in 1962 in Alicante, a city located in the southeastern coastal region of Spain that has been the birthplace of many great musicians -Oscar Espla, Ruperto Chapi, Jose Iturbi, Lopez Chavarri, Martin y Soler, Joaquin Rodrigo, Tarrega, etc. He later moved to Madrid, where he studied at that city's Royal Conservatory under Roman Alis and attended the most theoretically advanced courses at the Festival de Granada with Luigi Nono, Carmelo Bernaola, and Lui...