Tenor, singing teacher and choir conductor, born in Biarritz, on February 15, 1963.
He received his first musical education from his mother, Guadalupe Sagarzazu, in the bosom of a family with a great musical tradition, continuing them at the Conservatory of San Sebastian, 1974-1977. Conservatory of the Liceo of Barcelona, middle grade 1983-1986. Sarasate Superior Conservatory of Pamplona 1996-1999 Superior grade. Centre Musique Medievale of Paris. 2015.
Among his teachers are Francisco Escudero, Cecilia Fontdevila, Carmen Arbizu, Dom Saunier, Catherine Sargent.
From 1982-1983 director of the choir Enara of Irun. 2nd prize in the International Contest of Habaneras and Polyphony of Torrevieja, Spain 1983.
His professional life has been dedicated almost exclusively to the development and consolidation of the Easo Choir. Fundamental reference in the folklore and traditional songs of Euskal herria. He has been the sub-director since 1989. In 1992 he was appointed director of the choir and from 2005 general director.
In addition to promoter and founder of the Escolanía Easo (1992), Gregorian Choir Easo (1995), and the Easo music school.
The creation of the Araoz Women's Choir (2006) and the mixed choir Cum Jubilo, which brings together singers of all ages, deserve special mention.
In these almost 30 years he has given more than a thousand performances, combining his choral conducting responsibilities with teaching and being the director of the music school.
In addition to maintaining, reinforcing and making known the folklore of Euskalherria, he promotes the choral symphonic repertoire and opera.
He has taught the singers of the Easo Choir, the monks of the Leyre Monastery, the music school of the Easo Choir and the Choeur Anaiki in Paris.
He has participated in numerous editions of the Quincena Musical. Donostiarra, as well as in multiple seasons of Abao, Agao, EOS, and BOS.
Concert halls:
L'Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg, Gergiev Festival in Ossetia, Europa Chor Akademie , Bremen Herkules Saal in Munich, Philarmonie in Berlin , Pleyel in Paris. Bartesville Auditorium in Oklahoma.
Among the many opera titles he prepared as a conductor there are more than thirty works.
Tanhausser, The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, Aida, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Don Carlo, The Sicilian Visperas, The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, The Italian in Algiers, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, The Abduction from the Seraglio . Faust. I Puritani, Tosca, Lucia de Lamermoor, Zigor, Mendi Mendian, etc...
La del Manojo de Rosas, La tabernera del puerto, La Verbena de la paloma, Las Bribonas.
Symphonic choral repertoire:
Gurre Lieder and A Survivor from Warsaw Op. 46 , both by Arnold Schoenberg; Symphony Faust by F. Listz; Symphony 13 Babi Yar by D. Sakovich; Symphony 7 Kullervo by J. Sibelius; Requiems by L. Cherubini; G.Verdi and H. Berlioz; Stabat Mater J.C. Arriaga, etc....
Orchestras with which he has participated:
Euskadiko Orkestra. Basque National Orchestra, Bilboko Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orchestre National Capitole Toulouse, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra - St. Petersburg, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - London. New York Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta de Galicia, Szegedi Szimfonikus Zenekar - Hungary.
Conductors:
Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowsky, Leopold Hager, Wolf Dieter Haschild, Jesus López Cobos, Juanjo Mena, Miguel Ángel Gomez Martínez, Antonello Allemandi, Josep Pons, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Brigitte Lesne, Andres Orozco,Ari Rasilainen, Gunter Neuhold, Ros Marbá Bruno Campanella, Robert Treviño, Arturo Tamaño, David Parry Ransom Wilson, Miquel Ortega.
Recorded 10 discs with the following record labels:
Opus 111; Claves; Thorofon; Naive, recognised with 5 Golberg stars.