Ricardo Iznaola (born February 21, 1949) is an American guitarist, music educator, composer, and arranger of Cuban birth.
[1] Born Ricardo Fernández-Iznaola in Havana, Cuba, Izanola moved with his family to Colombia after the Cuban Revolution.
The family eventually relocated to Venezuela where Izanola studied under guitarist Manuel Enrique Pérez Díaz at the Escuela Superior de Música José Ángel Lamas in Caracas.
[1] In 1969 Iznaola performed for the first time internationally, touring Asia, Europe and North and South America.
Iznaola joined the faculty of the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver as a professor of guitar in 1983.