Ricardo de Noronha

Music Artist, Producer, Film and Flute Maker

About me

Ricardo de Noronha is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, that plays Middle-Eastern percussion, drums, frame drums, calabash, medieval tambour, davul, hang and steel drums, and makes his own ethnic flutes based on the Slovakian shepherd’s flute, the Fujara.

Since the 90s he recorded several world music albums with award-winning bands such as "Mandrágora", "Capagrilos" among others. Since relocating to the UK in 2014, he co-produced and recorded "Veer" with acclaimed UK Nychelharpa player Griselda Sanderson. The album was selected by Transglobal World Music charts as one of 2017’s top world music albums. Also, he founded Meridianum Ensemble in 2018. A transcultural musical collaboration, bringing together elements from Portugal, the UK and Morocco.

Albums and bands I've played on and produced

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Serpent Lore - Band and Demo
Wrath - Band
Mandrágora - Band and CD: "Mandrágora" Debut album that won the "Prémio Carlos Paredes 2004" award for best Portuguese instrumental album.
Mandrágora - "Escarpa"
Capagrilos - Band and CD: "Capagrilos" EP - "São Bassáridas"
GiraSol - Band: Ball Folk
Bailanser - Band: Ball Folk
Aldebaran - Band: World Music
Nuno Silva - CD: Espiral
Durius Ethnicus - CD: "Fujara - Breath of Spring"
Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha - CD: "Veer"
Radial Band - Band
CD - Ancestral: Debut solo album
Woodwose - Band and CD: Live at Dartmouth
Meridianum Ensemble - Band and CD: Live at Kingskerswell
Tamsin Elliott - CD: Frey
Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary - CD: So Far We Have Come
Eastern Strings Ensemble - Band
Raiido - "Transcendence" First solo album in the psytrance genre
Raiido - "As Above so Within"
Raiido - "Zephyr"
Opa Rosa - Band and CD: Havasi Klub

LIVE BANDS

OPA ROSA

MERIDIANUM ENSEMBLE

Fast gaining a reputation as one of UK’s most dynamic and virtuosic bands, Opa Rosa are an energetic acoustic ensemble sharing music from the Balkan, Greek, Klezmer & Roma traditions.