Guitarist and composer, born in Königgrätz (Hradec Králové, Northeastern Bohemia) / He began taking piano lessons at the age of six and received his first tutoring on guitar when he was ten years old. Inspired by his parents, he quickly understood what music would be in his future live. Looked upon as a child prodigy, Pavel won the international guitar festival, held at Pressburg (Bratislava), at 13.
After passing his final examinations at school, he began his studies at Prague Conservatorie.
His classical guitar teacher being Professor Milan Zelenka.
He started his work as classical concert guitarist 1968 and recorded two CD‘s as soloist. Beside his classical work he is very interested in other music jangling, like blues/country and popular music. In 1978 he recorded the LP „Eine ganze Menge Leben” with the German singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker. Pavel worked with/worked for: Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Bach Collegium München, Moskau Sinfonie-Orchester and Pawel Kogan. Ricar is living in Munich.
(Rainer Stelle)