Estellés, Iturriagagoitia, Apellániz, Rosado
Biographie Estellés, Iturriagagoitia, Apellániz, Rosado
José Luis Estellés
embraces his artistic activity as clarinetist and orchestral conductor on a rare equal strength and combines it with a keen interest on pedagogy. Celebrated for his wide-ranging repertoire as well as his sincere and captivating interpretations, he has regularly appeared in performances together with many of today’s internationally renowned instrumentalists and singers, at festivals and concert halls throughout Europe, the USA, Mexico and Japan.
Naturally at home in chamber music repertoire, in recent times these musical collaborations have included concerts with the Orpheus, Casals, Enesco, Artis-Wien, Delian, Modigliani, Kuss, Arriaga, Yokohama, Kelemen, Jousia, Carducci, Arditti and Diotima string quartets, and pianists such as Sergey Babayan, Colom, Díaz-Jerez, Donohoe, Drake, Forsberg, Fülei, Garvayo, Gililov, Gothóni, Gutman, Hakkila, Ituarte, Ivaldi, Jokubaviciute, Kanno, Koella, Madzar, Martínez-Mehner, Moretti, Nebolsin, Okazaki, Palko, Perianes, Riera, Rosado, Salvato, Sigfridsson, Tchetuev and Zabaleta.
As a guest concerto soloist, he has appeared in partnership with conductors Swensen, Andretta, Marcon, Encinar, Pons, Colomer, Foss, Griffiths, Kantorow, Mena, Kalmar, Tabachnik, Martínez, Tchitchinadze and Davin amongst others, and with a wide range of orchestras including Asturias, Bilbao, Extremadura, Valencia, Granada, Salzburg, Sinfonia Varsovia, Comunidad de Madrid, JONDE, the Soloists of London, I Solisti di Perugia, Britten Sinfonia, etc.
Radio and TV stations like EBU, TVE, RNE Radio Clasica, France Musiques, RAI2, RF, ADR, SWR and DR have broadcasted his concerts. In addition to this, José-Luis appears on numerous recordings both as a clarinetist and conductor for the labels Turtle Records, Emergo Classics, Audiovisuals de Sarriá, Anacrusi, Naxos, Verso, Musikene, Komponisten Polyphonie, Columna Música, Kairos and Ibs Classical.
José-Luis has also become a prominent performer for the new music. He has given much thought and efforts to promoting the new repertoire, through the formation of ensembles Grupo Manon and TAiMAgranada and with a long-lasting commitment to premiering both solo and chamber contemporary repertoire. As a clarinetist, he has given first performances of clarinet concertos by López López, Zavala and Soutullo, and works by Aracil, Camarero, Dorfman, Nordentoft, García Román, Lara, de Pablo, del Puerto, Rueda, Sánchez Verdú, Sanz-Burguete, Sotelo, Soutullo, Torres, Turina, Casablancas, Eslava, Kortekangas, Santacreu, Urrutia, Vadillo, etc.
He has held the position of principal clarinettist of Orquesta Ciudad de Granada since 1991, collaborating with other main orchestras in Spain, England, Belgium and Germany.
Aitzol Iturriagagoitia
was born in Éibar in the Spanish Basque Country in 1975. He studied with Zakhar Bron at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, and with Kolja Lessing, Ingolf Turban and Hatto Beyerle at the conservatories of Leipzig, Stuttgart and Hannover respectively.
A prize-winner in the Henryk Wieniawski (Lublin) and European Broadcasting Union competitions, he has performed as soloist with the Orquesta Nacional de la República Dominicana, Vogtland Philarmonie, Mittelsächsischen Philharmonie, Joven Orquesta de Euskadi, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi and Orquesta de Cámara Reina Sofía, with such eminent conductors as Yehudi Menuhin and Lorin Maazel.
He has collaborated with some of the world’s leading musicians, including Christian Zacharias, Gidon Kremer, Heinz Holliger, José Luis Estellés, Asier Polo, Gerald Fauth, Frithjof-Martin Grabner, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Jean-François Heisser, Mariana Sîrbu, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Edicson Ruiz, Giovanni Bellucci, Kolja Lessing, Andoni Mercero, Marta Zabaleta, Mate Bekavac, Martin Spangenberg, Christian Pohl, David Apellániz, Luis Fernando Pérez and Enrique Bagaría.
As chamber musician he was first violin with the Cuarteto Iturriaga and, later, the Cuarteto Arriaga, and has been invited to perform at the most prestigious venues and festivals in Europe, including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Palau de la Música de Barcelona and Palacio Real in Madrid (playing one of the palace’s famed Stradivarius instruments), and the MDR-Musiksommer, Kuhmo Chamber Music, San Sebastián Musical Fortnight and Lockenhaus festivals.
He also has wide-ranging experience in contemporary music and has worked with Abel Ehrlich, Jacqueline Fontaine, Krzysztof Meyer, Heinz Holliger, Salvatore Sciarrino, Francisco Lara and Aristides Strongylis, among other composers, as well as playing with international groups such as Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Ensemble Avantgarde (Leipzig) and the Isang Yun Ensemble Berlin.
In a long and productive recording career he has made recordings for German radio stations including MDR, BR, SWR and NDR, as well as for Radio Nacional and other Spanish radio stations.
Aitzol Iturriagagoitia has taught at some of Europe’s most prestigious music schools. He has given masterclasses in Asia and Latin America as well as in Spain, and he currently divides his time between his performing and teaching violin at the Musikene conservatory (San Sebastián).
David Apellániz
has appeared as soloist with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Lisbon’s Orquestra Gulbenkian, the Orchestre National de Lyon, Orquestra de València and Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona at some of the music world’s most prestigious events and venues, including the Salzburg and Lyon festivals, the Berlin Konzerthaus and the Quincena Musical Donostiarra (San Sebastián Musical Fortnight). He is also regularly invited to appear as guest principal with the Orquestra de València, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra and Orquestra de Cadaqués, among others.
He frequently performs with other eminent musicians and ensembles, including the Cuarteto Casals, Nicolas Chumachenco, Gérard Caussé and Paul McCreesh, and has made more than fifteen recordings as soloist for various labels, including Naxos, Sony, Col legno, Neos and RNE. As a member of the renowned Arriaga Piano Trio, he has appeared on stage at the leading international festivals. A champion of contemporary music, he has premiered a number of new works dedicated to him by composers such as Fabián Panisello and César Camarero, and has performed with the Plural Ensemble and Grup Instrumental de València at festivals worldwide.
Since 2003 he has been Chair of the Cello Department at the Aragón Conservatory, and he is often invited to give classes at well-known music schools around the world.
Albertos Rosado
Alberto Rosado Carabias (Salamanca, 1970) has given recitals in the main cities and festivals of Europe, America and Asia and has performed as a soloist with some of the best European orchestras and ensembles directed by P.Eötvös, S.Mälkki, J.Pons, J.Nott, F.Panisello, R.Frübeck de Burgos, J.R.Encinar, P.Halffter, A.Tamayo, Z.Nagy, J. L.Temes, P.Rundel, etc. He has been a pianist with Plural Ensemble -Madrid- since 1997. His recordings include the Concerto for piano and orchestra by J.M.López with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchestre directed by J.Kalitzke, for Kairos, the Concerto for piano by Ligeti with Plural Ensemble and Fabián Panisello for Neos and the complete work for piano by C.Halffter and that of J.M.López López with Verso, with which he also has a record with works by Messiaen, Ligeti, Takemitsu and Cage. His most ambitious project to date is e-piano_video&electronics, a CD-DVD distributed by the IBS Classical label with the collaboration of the BBVA Foundation and with the most recent music for piano, electronics and video by Fuentes, Paredes, Humet, Estrada, Edler-Copes, Morales-Ossío and Navarro.
He teaches chamber music and contemporary piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y León, where he manages the Contemporary Music Workshop.
