With extensive experience as an educator, soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral

musician, Dr. Ricardo Ferreira has served as a clarinet professor at Spelman College and a clarinet

instructor at Buford City Schools. He worked as a clarinet faculty member at the Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the University of Georgia Community Music School.

During the summer, Dr. Ferreira is a clarinet instructor at the UGA Summer Music Camp and the

Music Do-Re-Mi Clarinet Camp. He also has taught at the Londrina Music Festival, Domingos

Martins Music Festival in Brazil, Colquitt County High School Band Camp, East Jackson High School

Band Camp, and the Youth Middle School Clarinet Clinic.

At the age of 20, Ricardo was appointed Principal Clarinet at the Rio de Janeiro Opera

Theater Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for over two decades before moving to the

United States to further his studies. Throughout his career as an orchestral musician, he has

performed with distinguished orchestras in Brazil and abroad. He has played under the direction

of renowned conductors such as Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovich, Romano Gandolfi, Erich

Bergel, Gustavo Plis-Sterenberg, Hilary Griffiths, Isaac Karabtchevsky, and Roberto Minczuk.

Ricardo has performed at prominent events, including the ClarinetFest, El Sistema

Clarinet Festival in Venezuela, College Band Directors National Association Conference, UGA

Summer Music Camp, Clarinet Academy of America Day Camp, Londrina Music Festival, and

Domingos Martins Music Festival. In 2022, he conducted the University of Georgia clarinet choir

in its premiere performance. (To watch Dr. Ferreira’s performances, please visit

https://www.youtube.com/@ricardoferreiraclarinet)

Dr. Ferreira received his Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Georgia under

the supervision of Dr. D. Ray McClellan.