Iturriagagoitia-Bagaría Duo
Thanks to their great artistic chemistry, Aitzol and Enrique began working together in the Duo in 2019. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic, they have already performed at the Auditorium of Zaragoza, the Panticosa Festival, the Palau de la Música of Barcelona, the Philharmonic Society of Bilbao, the Theatre Arriaga, among others... and they plan to perform at the Musical Youth of Valladolid, the Auditorio de Tenerife, the Auditorium of Torrelodones, among others.
Their first album, with sonatas by Debussy, Janacek and Strauss, obtained great international reviews.
Aitzol Iturriagagoitia, violin
He was born in 1975 in Éibar (the Basque Country). He studied with Zakhar Bron at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music in Madrid, as well as with Kolja Lessing at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig, with Ingolf Turban in Stuttgart and Hatto Beyerle in Hannover.
He is the winner of the Henryk Wieniawski competitions for violin in Lublin and the European Broadcasting Union.
He has performed as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, the Vogtland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Basque Country, the Symphony Orchestra of Bilbao, the Symphony Orchestra of the Basque Country and the Chamber Orchestra Reina Sofía conducted by Lord Yehudi Menuhin and together with Lorin Maazel.
He has shared the stage with artists as renowned as Christian Zacharias, Gidon Kremer, Heinz Holliger, José Luis Estellés, Asier Polo, Gerald Fauth, Frithjof Martin Grabner, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Jean-Francois Heisser, Mariana Sirbu, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Edicson Ruiz, Giovanni Bellucci, Kolja Lessing, Andoni Mercero, Marta Zabaleta, Mate Bekavac, Martin Spangenberg, Christian Pohl, David Apellaniz, Luis Fernando Pérez and Enrique Bagaría.
He has been invited to the most important concert halls and festivals in Europe such as the Wigmore Hall of Londres, the Konzerthaus of Berlín, the MDR-Musiksommer, the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels, the Chamber Music Festival of Kuhmo (Finnland), the Palau de la Música of Barcelona and the Palacio Real of Madrid with the Palatina Collection of Stradivarius, the Donostia-San Sebastián Musical Fortnight and the Lockenhaus Festival of Gidon Kremer.
Enrique Bagaría, piano
He began his music studies with the professors Rosa Masferrer and Luiz de Moura Castro. He obtained a Higher Degree in Piano at the Municipal Conservatoire of Barcelona. He continued his training at l'École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris with the maestro Aquilles Delle Vigne. He post-graduated at the Higher Conservatoire of the Liceu in Barcelona with Stanislav Pochekin. He continued with Dimitri Bashkirov, Galina Eguiazarova and Claudio Martínez Mehner at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music in Madrid and with Vadim Suchanov at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich. Alongside his training, he received master classes from maestros such as Alicia de Larrocha, Elisso Virssaladze, Josep Maria Colom, Andrzej Jasinski, Ralph Gothoni, Vitaly Margulis, Andrew Watts and Boris Petrushansky, among others.
Throughout his career, he has received several awards at piano competitions, both nationally and internationally. However, it is worth highlighting his first place at the 52nd edition of the international “Maria Canals” competition (Barcelona 2006) and his participation in the XV “Paloma O'Shea” International Competition in Santander (2005).
He has collaborated with prestigious international orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburger Kammerphilarmonie, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (OFB) and with most orchestras in Spain: the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC), the Galicia Symphony Orchestra (OSG), the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León (OSCyL), the Orchestra of Valencia, the Orchestra of Cadaqués…and with conductors such as Valeri Gergiev, Vasily Petrenko, Yoon Kuk Lee, Francisco Rettig, Pedro Halffter, Eduardo Portal, Salvador Brotons, Gianandrea Noseda and Manuel Galduf.