Ronald Charles Purcell (October 5, 1932 – September 7, 2011) was an American guitarist, with degrees from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and California State University, Northridge.
[2] His major teachers included Andrés Segovia, Emilio Pujol, Macario Santiago Kastner, Alirio Diaz and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco,[3] whose Hommage to Purcell, Op.
His first wife was Joanne B. Purcell, a professor of romance languages at the University of California, Davis until her death from cancer in 1984.
[11][4] An annual student fellowship and scholarship is given in Purcell's memory at California State University, Northridge.
[8] The International Guitar Research Archives (IGRA), held in the University Library at California State University, Northridge, have grown since his death, with recent acquisitions of the Reginald Smith Brindle collection, the Guitar Foundation of America archive, and many others.