Ricardo Pinheiro (3)

Portuguese jazz guitar player and composer born in 1977. He completed a Degree in Music at Berklee College of Music, Boston; Degree in Psychology Sciences at the Universidade de Lisboa; and a PhD in Musicology (Ethnomusicology) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He studied with Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Wayne Krantz, Ken Cervenka, and Salwa Castelo-Branco. He played/recorded with Peter Erskine, David Liebman, Chris Cheek, Andrew Rathbun, Aubrey Johnson, Mário Laginha, Eric Ineke, Perico Sambeat, João Paulo Esteves da Silva, Matt Renzi, Jon Irabagon, John Gunther, Mike Del Ferro, André Charlier, Benoît Sourisse, among many others. He teaches at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, and is the Director of its Masters in Music Program.