Itziar Oiarzabal

Itziar Oyarzabal was born in San Sebastian in 1981. She began her violin studies at the age of 5 under the guidance of Ana María Sebastián with the Suzuki Method. After entering the Conservatorio Superior de Música de San Sebastián, at the age of 17 she completed the Grado Superior de Violín in the same teacher’s class, obtaining the highest qualification and the end of degree prize.

In the same year, she was admitted to the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, in the Violin Chair of Professor Zakhar Bron and his assistant Serguei Fatkulin, with whom she continued her training in Germany from 2001 to 2004.

Between 2004 and 2007 she completed the Postgraduate Master’s Degree with Professor Grigory Zhislin at the “Hochschule für Musik Würzburg” in Germany.

She has also received master classes from M. Fuks, E. Wulfson, V. Repin, S. Rodjenvenski, M. Keylin, A. Czifra, V. Martín and E. Masters. She has given numerous concerts in Spain, Germany, Austria and Italy, as a soloist and in various chamber ensembles. She has also performed as a soloist with orchestra at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona.

Since 2007 she has been a member of the “Sorion Quartett”, with which after three years of study under the tutelage of the “Vogler Quartett”, she obtained a Master’s Degree in Chamber Music at the “Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart”, Germany; later on she extended hers training in master classes with renowned quartets such as “Artemis Quartett”, Peter Buck (Melos Quartett), Cuarteto Casals and “Julliard Quartett”.

In this ensemble she has performed in different Music Festivals in Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy; among others, Cultura Musical de San Sebastián, “Oberstdorfer Musiksommer” and “Lingotto Musica Torino”.

Parallel to her artistic activity, she began her pedagogical work teaching children of different ages at the “Steigerwald Musikschule” in Würzburg, Germany and occasionally working as an assistant to Professor Grigory Zhislin based on the combination of the Suzuki method and the basics of the Russian school.