A disciple of Wilbert Hazelzet, Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres (b. Seville, 1983) first came into contact with music as a chorister in the Seville Cathedral. He studied flute at the Seville Conservatory, where he was awarded the prestigious end-ofcourse prize. Given a grant by the Consejería de Cultura of the Junta de Andalucía, he went on to specialise in early flutes at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Wilbert Hazelzet. He also studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Lisa Beznosiuk. He has worked with conductors such as Michael Thomas, Daniel Barenboim, Giovanni Antonini, Jos van Immerseel, Martin Gester, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Gustav Leonhardt, Mark Minkowski, Christophe Rousset, Louis Langrée, Philippe Herreweghe, Mark Elder, Christophe Coin, Robert Levin, Enrico Onofri, Roger Norrington, Hervé Niquet and Alan Curtis, among others. He was principal flute in The Wallfisch Band and continues to play regularly with the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla but is primarily active in the world of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century chamber music.