PROFILE
collaborative pianist, musical director, vocal coach, musicologist
Ricardo Gosalbo is a Spanish-French collaborative pianist, musical director, vocal coach and musicologist. He works at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and City Lit.
In high demand as an expert in Spanish and Hispano-American classical music, Ricardo has lectured at universities such as King’s College London, LSE, Oxford University, the University of Manchester, the University of Leeds, and the University of Edinburgh. He has been curating Spanish music events for the Instituto Cervantes for over a decade. He is in the late stages of completing doctoral research on the impact of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s poetry on Spanish vocal music.
Ricardo works regularly with singers and has appeared at venues such as the Barbican, Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Kings Place in London, the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Chapelle Royale in Brussels, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Kulturpalast in Dresden and the Filharmonia Narodowa in Warsaw. He has also been featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune programme and several Spanish national broadcasters. As a musical director, he has most recently directed Pablo Sorozábal’s Spanish operetta ‘Black el payaso’ and Ástor Piazzolla’s ‘María de Buenos Aires’.
A multifaceted music collaborator, Ricardo is a founding member of the Deco Ensemble, praised as ‘one of the UK’s foremost tango ensembles’, with whom he has released two albums. He has also worked extensively with contemporary dancers and choreographers, having performed with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and the Polish Dance Theatre.
During his formative years, Ricardo benefitted from the mentorship of Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Robert Levin, Malcolm Martineau, Peter Schreier and Roger Vignoles. He won several prizes, including the ‘Prix de Lied’ at the Concours International de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger, the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform and the Paul Hamburger Prize for voice and piano duo.
