Riccardo Calogiuri, born in 1990, started studying guitar at the age of five with M° Gabriella Lubello, graduating under her guide in 2008 from the N. Piccinni Conservatory in Bari with first-class honours and special mention. After finishing his postgraduate study in Bari with full marks in 2012, he attended the course Formazione Continua by M° Lorenzo Micheli in Lugano, Switzerland, in 2015. He attended master classes by Oscar Ghiglia, Alirio Diaz, Alberto Ponce, Eliot Fisk, Stefano Grondona, Bosko Radojkovic, Luis Quintero, Aniello Desiderio, Nando Di Modugno, and Maurizio Colonna, earning merit diplomas in all.                                                                                          

He is an active concert guitarist in Italy and abroad, where he performed, for example, at the International guitar festival of Great Britain (2006), the International guitar festival Andrès Segovia, Madrid (2010) and Malibù, USA (2012). He has performed many concerts for guitar and orchestra, starting at the age of 14, when he performed Fantasia para un gentilhombre by J.Rodrigo at the Paisiello theater in Lecce, receiving great appraisals by both audience and press. In October 2010, he received The Golden Guitar Award at the International Guitar Convention in Alessandria for the best up-and-coming guitarist.

He won numerous first prizes in national and international competitions, including the Maria Quintieri International Competition (2015),  the Alirio Diaz International Competition, Carora, Venezuela  (2009), the International Competition of Gargnano  (2009) and the International Competition of Fiuggi (2009). Furthermore, he won 2nd prize at the Emilio Pujol International Competition (2008),  the International Competition of Mottola (2009), and the International Competition of Veria, Greece (2012), and 3rd prize at the Andrés Segovia International Competition in Linares, Spain  (2009), the Julian Arcas International Competition in Almeria, Spain (2010), the Stefano Strata International Competition in Pisa (2012) and the Alvaro Mantovani International Competition in Follonica (2017).                                                      

He has already recorded several CDs: Novecento e dintorni (2004, Village Records), Percorsi (2007, Silver Frog), Corde del Salento (2008), Viaggio nella musica del mondo with quartet Lupiae (2013) and Appunti spanoli (2017, dotGuitar).