INIGO ALONSO

After finishing his studies in Spain, he attended the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp where he studied clarinet with Walter Boeykens and bass clarinet with Jan Guns, obtaining the highest distinction in both instances and chamber music. Following this, he obtained a scholarship to study with Andrew Marriner on the Postgraduate Course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, from which he graduated in 1996 with Diploma of Advanced Studies with Merit and LRAM (Teaching Diploma). He has also participated in master classes with Wolfgang Meyer, Antony Pay, Colin Bradbury, Joan Enric Lluna, Michael Collins and Josef Horack (bass clarinet). In September 1996 he became a Fellowship Student of the Toho Orchestra Academy in Japan. A keen player of contemporary music, Iñigo Alonso has been a member of the Aquarius Ensemble in Holland, and the UK based Composers Ensemble, The New Music Players and The Opera Group. In Spain, he has played in the Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra and Liceo Theatre Orchestra. In July 1994 he was successful in gaining the place of principal clarinet doubling bass clarinet in the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan, and the following year in the Festival of Evian Orchestra in France. Whilst living in Belgium, Iñigo was clarinet/bass clarinet in the orchestra Il Noveccento, and in the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Flanders, with whom he made several recordings. Conductors he has worked under include Michael Tilson-Thomas, Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Tadaaki Osaka and Jerzy Semkow. He has been Solo bass clarinet/clarinet with “deFilharmonie Orchestra Antwerpen” in Belgium and now he is currently a member of the Asturias Symphony Orchestra. He also works regularly with Champ D'Action and “Vlaams Radio Orchestra” in Belgium as bass clarinet. As a chamber musician Iñigo has performed throughout Europe with different ensembles and in 1995 was invited to perform at the “First Encounters of Chamber Music” in Paris. Founder member of Trio Bernaola (clarinet, cello, piano), he has participated in festivals such as “San Sebastián Quincena Musical” (broadcast by Radio Nacional de España), “Martes Musicales” in Vitoria, “Lejona Semana de Música Contemporánea” and Festival “A Tempo” in Venezuela as well as appearing in the UK on a frequent basis. In 2002 the trio was invited to the Festival “Música XXI” in Rome and the International Contemporary Music Festival of Alicante. Together they have recorded a CD with music by the most prominent Basque composers. In 2000 he gave the premiere of the bass clarinet concerto by K. Vlaak in Spain and returned in November 2002 to premiere Nino Diaz’s “Octubre”. Future plans include another world premiere of James Gadner’s concerto “Unlearned Lines” for bass clarinet and wind orchestra, Nino Diaz’s concerto for bass clarinet and string orchestra and several recitals in UK and Spain.