Ricardo Jesús Gallén García was born in Linares, Spain in 1972. He started playing the guitar at the age of four and made his first public appearance with his father Manuel Gallen when he was only five. At the age of ten he entered the Conservatorio de Música de Linares where he received his first official music lessons with the founder (and by then director) of the Conservatorio, composer Tomas Villajos Soler. He continued his studies in the conservatoires of Jaén, Córdoba, Madrid o Granada, under the guidance of Victor Valls, Miguel Barbera, Demetrio Ballesteros and Carmelo Martínez. He studied Guitar and Ancient Music in the Universities of Salzburg (Mozarteum) and Munchen, with Maestros ...