Ricardo Lorenz (born May 24, 1961) is a Venezuelan composer and academic.
[1] Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Lorenz earned degrees from both the Conservatory of Music Juan Manuel Olivares and the Juan Manuel Olivares National School of Music (also known as the Venezuelan National Conservatory) in Caracas, Venezuela.
He joined the faculty of the Jacobs School where he served as the director of the Latin American Music Center from 1987-1992.
In 1995 he compiled and published the sourcebook Scores and Recordings at Indiana University's Latin American Music Center (Indiana University Press, 1995)[1] In 1992 Lorenz left the Jacobs school to pursue doctoral studies in music composition at the University of Chicago where he was a pupil of John Eaton and Shulamit Ran.
His works have been performed by symphony orchestras internationally.