Zuriñe F. GERENABARRENA

Born in 1965. Graduated from "Jesús Guridi" High School of Music, and "Scuola Civica" in Vitoria, Spain(1991) and Milan (1993).

Recent 5 main activities are:

Concert ("Amor Fiero"/ 2013-03-05/ Cycle Contemporary Music, BBVA Foundation. Bilbao, Spain)

Concert ("Flaxa" /2013-03-27/ Festival Musiques & Recherches. Brussels)

Opera ("Despertar a la Vida es Sueño"/ 2012-11-26/ Festival Bernaola. Jesús Guridi. Vitoria, Spain)

Exhibition ("Kontuari Kontu"/2012 July-August/ Koldo Mitxelena. San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain)

Concert ("Erantzungor" /2009/ Diotima Quartet, Festival Quincena Musical. Donostia, Spain)

Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena, is a composer and teacher. Since 2002, she teaches Harmony-Counterpoint in

MUSIKENE, Higher School of Music (Basque Country, Spain).

Artist in residence,"LEC" Lisbon 2009, USF Bergen, Norway 2010, VICC, Visby,Sweden 2011.

She is frequently commissionned by several institutions such as: Spanish Ministry of Culture, INAEM grant 2012-13, Autor Foundation- Bilbao Orchestra, grant 2013, BBVA Foundation, grant 2013, Phonos Foundation, grant 2013, CDMC, grant 2010 (Festival Alicante), Basque Government (2012, 2010, 2008, 2007), Basque National Orchestra (Izarrarri, 2006).

Orchestrator of several films, Gerenabarrena has written pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles, theatre, dance, animation, acousmatic, sound installations and multidisciplinary shows.

Her work have all been performed in international festivals as: Contemporary Music FBBVA, SINKRO, Quincena Musical, Musiques & Recherches ("Flaxa" 2013, Brussels), EMU Festival ("Flaxa" 2012 "Azalpean" 2009, Rome), Bernaola Festival ("Despertar a la Vida es Sueño" 2012), Festival Klem, "Musikagileak Festival" Musikaste, Visiones Sonoras, Electrovisiones, Chihuahua Festival (Mexico), Borealis ("Bihotz Bi" 2011, Norway), Musica Viva ("Atravessare a noite, 2010 Lisbon), ), Elektrophonie ("Deikun", "Ur" 2010), Wealr 09 Fullerton ("Ur Hotz" 2009) Guggenheim Inaugural Session Bilbao ("Itxidiki" 1997) ...