Born in Bilbao in 1968, she studied piano with Mari Paz Bilbao, Aurelio Castrillo, and Carlos Ibarra, also receiving guidance from Manuel Carra, Luis Rego, and Vitaly Margulis. She obtained the higher degrees in Piano, Chamber Music, Solfeggio, and Musical Pedagogy with the best grades at the Conservatories of Bilbao and Vitoria. She specialized in accompaniment, especially for singers, with Alejandro Zabala, also receiving advice from Miguel Zanetti, Félix Lavilla, Dalton Baldwin, and Alfred Herzog.

She has been a repetiteur and a staff pianist for more than forty operatic productions with the ABAO (Bilbao Association of Friends of Opera) and in the opera seasons of the Maestranza Theatre in Seville, the Royal Theatre in Madrid, the Liceu in Barcelona, and the Pérez Galdós Theatre in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, working alongside conductors such as Ives Abel, Antonello Allemandi, Paolo Arrivabeni, Bertrand de Billy, Danielle Callegari, Giuliano Carella, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Marzio Conti, Riccardo Frizza, Marco Guidarini, Friedrich Haider, Pedro Halffter, Eric Hüll, Juanjo Mena, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Günther Neuhold, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Stephan Anton Reck, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Pietro Rizzo, Rico Saccani, Edwin Scholz, Roberto Tolomelli, Kery Lin Wilson, Massimo Zanetti, Alberto Zedda, as well as internationally renowned singers such as Carlos Álvarez, Ainhoa Arteta, Daniela Barcellona, Paata Burchuladze, Carlos Chausson, Graham Clark, Alessandro Corbelli, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Natalie Dessay, Norma Fantini, Juan Diego Flórez, Giovanni Furlanetto, Marcello Giordani, Edita Gruberova, Sumi Jo, Simon Keenlyside, Gregory Kunde, Aquiles Machado, María José Moreno, Leo Nucci, Jessica Pratt, Simón Orfila, Giacomo Prestia, Isabel Rey, Sondra Radvanovsky, Matti Salminen, Ana María Sánchez, Deborah Voigt, and Leonora Zajick, as well as stage directors like Vincenzo Grisostomi, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Gian Carlo del Monaco, Francisco Negrin, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Mario Pontiggia, Emilio Sagi, and Antoine Selva, among others.

She has been the official pianist for the International Singing Competitions “Pedro Unanue” in Bilbao, “Julián Gayarre” in Pamplona, “Ciudad de Logroño” in Logroño, and “Luis Mariano” in Irun. She has accompanied masterclasses and courses taught by renowned masters such as Jaume Aragall, Teresa Berganza, Carlos Chausson, Ana Luisa Chova, Ainhoa Garmendia, Aquiles Machado, Gianni Mastino, Isabel Rey, and Ana María Sánchez (voice), José Luis Estellés, Harri Mäki, and Antony Pay (clarinet), Henri Bok (bass clarinet), and Claude Delangle (saxophone) in Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Bilbao, Callosa d’en Sarriá, Donosti, Oviedo, Pamplona, and Santiago de Compostela. For over a decade, she was the pianist for the Primaveras Musicales Vizcaínas organized by A.M.A.K. (Alfredo Kraus Musical Association). Outside Spain, she has performed with various singers in Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and Poland, as well as in Uruguay, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

She has recorded four albums: “Cantar del alma” with bass-baritone Fernando Latorre, “Bihotzeko Amalur” with soprano Ainhoa Garmendia and cellist Pello Ramirez, “Playing Opera” with the trumpet soloist of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Vicente Olmos (an album recently awarded the Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards in California), and a fourth album featuring piano works by Basque composer Jesús Kerexeta, in addition to shorter collaborations on other albums.

In the pedagogical field, she has been a Repertoire Teacher at the Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga Conservatory in Bilbao, Head of the Voice Department and Repertoire Teacher at Musikene, Director and Pianist of various courses in the Art and Culture Encounters organized by the University of the Basque Country, and Pedagogical Director of the Zumaia International Music Festival. Currently, she is a Repertoire Teacher at the Higher Music Center of the Basque Country, Musikene. She has recently completed a Master’s in Management and Direction of Educational Centers.

She has recently created the YouTube channel Zarzuela-Just Sing, which compiles resources of interest for singers. She plays the piano accompaniment for numbers from zarzuela and Spanish opera.

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