Antonio Ruiz-Pipo

Antonio Ruiz-Pipo was born in Granada (Spain), where he spent his earliest childhood. In 1941, at the age of only 7, he went to Barcelona where, for four years, he studied Gregorian chant, harmony and chamber music at the Escolania de Nuestra Señora de la Merced and, above all, piano at the famous Franck Marshall school with Alicia de Larrocha. Once he had completed this first stage, he went to Paris to complete his studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris there, where his teachers included Alfred Cortot, Blanche Bascouret de Guéraldy and Yves Nat.

Antonio Ruiz-Pipo was born in Granada (Spain), where he spent his earliest childhood. In 1941, at the age of only 7, he went to Barcelona where, for four years, he studied Gregorian chant, harmony and chamber music at the Escolania de Nuestra Señora de la Merced and, above all, piano at the famous Franck Marshall school with Alicia de Larrocha. Once he had completed this first stage, he went to Paris to complete his studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris there, where his teachers included Alfred Cortot, Blanche Bascouret de Guéraldy and Yves Nat. At the same time, he frequently returned to Barcelona to study composition with Manuel Blancafort and Jose Cercos, studies reinforced in Paris where he added orchestration with Maurice Ohana and Salvador Barcarisse. As a pianist Antonio Ruiz Pipo gave numerous recitals and recorded for several European radio and television networks, as well as in the Middle East and Japan. He performed with the London Philarmonia, the orchestre Lamoureux, the orchestre philarmonique of Radio France, and those of RTVE, the "Ciutat de Barcelona" the Filarmonia de Galicia, the Neederlandsee Radio OMROE, and the Stuttgarter Philarmoniker under the direction of such conductors as Sir Charles Mackerras, Gilbert Amy, Pierre Dervaux, A Ros Marba, and A. de Almeida. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..