Performing Arts: Ricardo Cárdenas

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Guitarist Ricardo Cárdenas performs his extraordinary range of classical and folkloric music from Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile. Cárdenas includes composers as Heitor Villa-lobos, Antonio Lauro, Agustin Barrios, Fleury, J. Cardoso, Joao Pernambuco and also plays his own arrangements of Chilean songs.

Ricardo Cárdenas was born in Punta Arenas in the Patagonian region of Chile. He began studying traditional Latin American music and classical guitar with Fernando Bargetto, later continued his studies in the University in his country.