Ricardo Castro

Person · Open Library

Works

5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Brazil

Active from

1964

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

5,524

Total plays

35,257

Born in Bahia (Brazil) in 1964, Ricardo Castro started to play piano at the age of three and began his musical studies with Esther Cardoso, a dedicated exponent of the French pianoschool, at the age of five. In 1975 Castro won, when he was only eleven, at the Pro Arte National Competition in Brazil, suggesting the musical talent he should later confirm. In 1984 he joined the class of Maria Tipo at the Geneva Conservatoire. Consequently he won a number of prizes including the Patek Philippe

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The electronic properties of graphene

   · 2009 · cited 22,718x

2. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate

   · 2009 · cited 22,584x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,903x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,984x

5. Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae

   · 1999 · cited 15,600x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Ricardo

Family name

Castro

Gender

male

Citizenship

Mexico

Place of birth

Durango

Place of death

Mexico City

Occupation

composer

Educated at

National Conservatory of Music of Mexico

Languages spoken

French

Genre

opera

Instrument

piano

Image

Ricardo-castro-herrera.jpg

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