Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda - viola da gamba picture
was born in Venezuela. He studied the piano and the violoncello in Caracas, where he was also a member of La Camerata de Caracas. He was awarded a scholarship from the Venezuelan government to study the viol with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and took part in several master-classes with Jordi Savall during the same period. He obtained both a teaching and a solo performance diploma and, in addition to his activities as a performer, went on to study musicology at the University of Utrecht.