Active as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, curator, and scholar, Dr. Ricardo de la Torre has played in concert venues in North America and Europe and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Mexico and the U.S. A finalist and prize winner in several competitions, he has held grants and scholarships from different cultural and government institutions. He is frequently heard as part of Duo Powers-de la Torre, which he forms with Dr. Lark Powers. The duo will release its first album, dedicated to the music of Seattle-based Uruguayan-American composer Miguel del Águila, next year.

 

Born in Mexico City, Ricardo attended the pre-college program at Escuela Superior de Música in his hometown. He later received a Bachelor’s degree with honors from this institution. He continued his studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he received a Master of Music degree and went on to graduating with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked as a teaching assistant and collaborative pianist. His main teachers include Ana María Tradatti, Fernando García Torres, Evelyne Brancart and David Korevaar. He has taken part in numerous masterclasses with pianists Jorge Federico

Osorio, Peter Donohoe, Leon Fleisher, Jörg Demus, Cristina Ortiz, Jean-Paul Sevilla, Ursula Oppens, Roberto Prosseda, Gustavo Romero, and Gregory Allen among others.

 

With over two decades of experience teaching students of all levels and backgrounds, Ricardo is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music and is also in demand as adjudicator throughout the state and the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves as a Visting Artist for Washington State Music

Teachers Association’s Music Artistry Program and as instructor at Pacific Lutheran University and the Community Music program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma and was on faculty at East Central University in Oklahoma, teaching a variety of subjects.

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Also active in scholarly endeavors, Ricardo has been invited to present lectures and lecture-recitals at local, regional, national, and international conferences and has had articles published by peer-reviewed journals in Mexico, Colombia and the U.S. He regularly writes program notes for Mexico’s National Autonomous University’s professional orchestra OFUNAM.

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Ricardo worked as Curator of Art and Music at Lakewold Gardens in Lakewood, sits on the board of Early Music Seattle, and directs Orquesta Northwest’s Latino Chamber Music Festival in Seattle every Fall.