Aitor Biain Bidarte

1983

He started his studies at the Music School inOñati (Gipuzkoa), Basque Country, learning clarinet, saxophone and voice.He was awarded a Computer Science Engineering Degree by Mondragon Universityand studied voice at the School of Music Jesus Guridi in Vitoria-Gasteiz, underthe teaching of Idoia Garmendia and Miren Urbieta-Vega. Afterwards, he finishedhis Pedagogy of Music studies at the Higher School of Music of the BasqueCountry-Musikene. Finally he studied conducting with Gabriel Baltés and BasilioAstulez (choir conducting) and Arturo Tamayo (orchestral conducting) at theHigher School of Music of the Basque Country. He has completed the Master ofMusical Research at the UNIR university, and has received training in CulturalManagement. He is currently studying Musicology. He has undertaken conductingcourses through the Choral Association of the Basque Country, with prestigiousteachers such as Werner Pfaff, Tamara Brooks, Carlo Pavese, Roland Berger,Johan Duijck, Laszlo Heltay, Juan Luis Martínez, Vasco Negreiros and BasilioAstulez. He has also participated in courses and seminars with many otherconductors (J. Casas, G. Graden, E. Carrasco, V. Miskinis, M. Guinand, N.Faran, J. Busto,…).

He is theconductor to the Choir of the University of the Basque Country, the “Orfeón ofBergara”, the Chamber Choir of Oñati, Hots Choir, and Little – Petite Chamber,with whom he has performed a wide variety of national and European tours, aswell as performing concerts at the most prestigious concert halls within theBasque Country, as well as abroad. He has won many awards not only as a choirbut also as a conductor. It is worth highlighting the ones received as BestConductor, in May 2017 at the International Choir Competition “Florilège Vocal”in Tours (France) and in August 2015 at the International Choir Competition“Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo” (Italy). He is specialized in the “a cappella”repertoire, as well as all time choral-orchestral literature. He has conductedand edited 5 disc recordings and has released more than 30 choral works by J.Busto, J.Elberdin D.Azurza, J.Guerrero,E.Ugalde, X.Sarasola, among others. He also offers workshops and seminars quiteoften. He was the assistant conductor to the Choir of the Cathedral ofVitoria-Gasteiz, conducted by Carlos Mena.

In addition to conducting, he isalso member of the choir KUP Taldea conducted by Gabriel Baltés.

Since 2020 he has been conductor of the Oñati Wind Band and the AequusEnsemble symphony orchestra.

In the 2019-21 season he was director of the EHGA choir (Euskal HerrikoGazte Abesbatza) with Basilio Astulez.

Since 2024 he has been a conducting professor in  ZUZENDARI (Conducting school) of theConfederation of Choirs of the Basque Country.

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