Ángel Ripoll
Ángel Ripoll, born in Jumilla (Spain) in 1996, is a versatile guitarist who performs both flamenco and classical repertoire, enabling him to cover a wide range of music, from 16th-century vihuela music to the very latest compositions. His favourite music is that of his native region, Murcia, and he has produced transcriptions for guitar and performed previously unpublished works by Murcian composers. A highlight in this vein is his latest album, “La Guitarra Murciana (vol. 1)”, the first volume of a recording project in which he breathes new life into a little-known original repertoire; this marks the world premiere recording of these works and, in the case of some of them, their first public performance.
Throughout his career as a concert guitarist, he has performed Joaquín Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” on three occasions, accompanied by the UCAM Orchestra of Murcia and the Saint Pierre-Fusterie Orchestra of Geneva. Since 2014, Ángel has been a member of the “AD libitum Duo” alongside guitarist Dmitri Timoshenko, whose aim is to enrich the repertoire for two guitars with their own compositions.
He also collaborated with the Swiss filmmaker Danielle Jaeggi on the recording of the soundtrack for the film “Thiel le Rouge”, for which he recorded his arrangement of Isaac Albéniz’s “Granada”. He premiered his show “A Musical Journey through Andalusia” in Spain and Switzerland, in which classical and flamenco music intertwine to take the audience on a tour of every Andalusian province. As a guitarist, he has taken part in numerous festivals and musical performances in both Switzerland and Spain.
Ángel is also active as a composer, having written numerous pieces for both solo guitar and other instruments and ensembles, some of which can be heard on digital platforms.
Among his current artistic activities, the “Raiya Duo” with Portuguese guitarist Miguel Ferreira and the “Melisma Duo” with Swiss flautist Mourad Khediri stand out; he performs frequently with both ensembles, always including a piece by a composer from Murcia in their programmes.
Ángel Ripoll’s guitar has performed all over western Switzerland, with performances in major cities such as Geneva, Lausanne and Sion, as well as in numerous towns such as Versoix, Meyrin, Grand-Lancy, Petit-Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Bernex, Pully, Martigny, Langenthal and Sierre. In 2024, he was invited to the 15th Versoix International Guitar Festival, where he presented a programme consisting entirely of works by composers from Murcia, notably including two arrangements of pieces by the Jumilla-born composer Julián Santos Carrión. Furthermore, in September 2025, he took part in the Gingins Music Marathon in the Swiss canton of Vaud, where he performed Spanish works and brought the concert to a close with Julián Santos’s pasodoble ‘Mantillas de Jueves Santo’.
Ángel began playing the guitar at the age of 8, initially under the guidance of his mother, Asunción Ripoll, and later with teachers such as Astour Kirichian and Javier Somoza in Madrid, and Alessio Nebiolo and Dušan Bogdanović in Geneva. He also had the opportunity to work with renowned guitarists such as Petra Poláčková, Marcin Dylla, Arturo Tallini, Paul Galbraith, Pablo Márquez, Antigoni Goni, Raphaël Feuillâtre, Salvador Andrades and the Gruber-Maklar guitar duo. His skills were recognised in several guitar competitions, and he received the ‘Arditi Prize’ for the best end-of-course recital in 2014. Having recently graduated in music education from the class of the Bulgarian guitarist George Vassilev, Ángel was awarded the “Performing Arts” prize by the Lausanne Higher School of Music (HEMU) in June 2026 for his brilliant end-of-master’s recital.
Teacher since 2013, Ángel has many years of experience teaching the art of the guitar to people of all ages and levels. He undertook teaching trainings at the Geneva Conservatoire in 2017, 2024 and 2025, and is currently a guitar teacher at the Bernex Music School in Geneva.
Driven by a deep attachment to Jumilla, his home town, Ángel is involved in the local music scene as a concert guitarist, a trombonist with the ‘Julián Santos’ Music Association, a bandurria player in the Coros y Danzas de Jumilla (folk ensemble), a member of the Losao de Santiago Choir, and an organist for the five-day service in honour of Saint Anne at the Monastery of Santa Ana del Monte. He also had the opportunity of broadening his skills by studying cello and piano from an early age.
He has been awarded with the ‘Ambassador of Jumilla’ prize in his home town, in recognition of his contribution to promoting Murcia and Jumilla’s musical culture beyond Spanish borders.
Vihuela, spanish guitar and electric guitar (property of Ángel Ripoll)
Ángel Ripoll playing the trombone
Ángel Ripoll playing bandurria with his folk ensemble in Jumilla
Ángel Ripoll at the organ for religious festivities
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