Festival Ricardo Castro

Festival Ricardo Castro is an annual cultural event in Durango city named for Ricardo Castro, 1864-1907, a Durango-born composer and concert pianist regarded as one of Mexico's most significant Romantic-era classical musicians. The festival is understood to center on classical music and piano performance, though specific founding date and current programming were not independently confirmed.

Ricardo Castro, born in Durango in 1864 and active until his death in 1907, is remembered as one of Mexico's leading Romantic-era composers and concert pianists, a figure whose work helped establish a serious classical-music tradition in a country whose musical identity is often associated internationally with mariachi and folk forms instead.