Maria Luisa Ozaita is a Spanish

Spanish people

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 pianist

Pianist

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, harpsichorist, musicologist, conductor and composer

Composer

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Biography

Maria Luisa Ozaita Marquis was born in Barakaldo

Barakaldo

Barakaldo , is a municipality in the Basque Country in Spain. It is located in the Biscay province, administratively included in the "Basque Autonomous Community", on the left bank of the Estuary of Bilbao.Barakaldo is part of Bilbao's metropolitan area , and its official population...

, Vizcaya

Biscay

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, in Spain

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. She studied with Fernando Remacha

Fernando Remacha

Fernado Remacha Villar was a composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27.-Early years:...

, and continued her studies in in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 with Leif Thybo

Leif Thybo

Leif Thybo was a Danish organist and composer. He studied theory with Vagn Holmboe before entering the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he was taught instrumentation by Poul Schierbeck, organ by Emilius Bangert, and theory by Finn Høffding...

 and K.J. Isaksen through a MFA exchange scholarship. She also studied harpsichord

Harpsichord

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 in France

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 with Kenneth Gilbert

Kenneth Gilbert

Kenneth Gilbert, OC is a Canadian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist and music educator.Gilbert was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Yvonne Hubert and Gabriel Cusson . He also studied the organ privately with Conrad Letendre in Montréal...

 and at Darmstadt

Darmstadt

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 in Germany

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Ozaita's has performed internationally in Europe, North America and Eastern Europe, and her compositions have also been performed internationally. She lectures on music history, and has published professional articles in magazines including Confutatis and OpusMusica and in the book Women in Music by Patricia Adkins Chiti. Ozaita also collaborated on the Spanish edition of Women in Music. She is a member of the La Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País

Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País

The Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country also known as La Bascongada or Bascongada Society was born in the XVIII century to promote the cientific, cultural and economical development of the Basque Country.The founding members were the...

and was the founding president of the Spanish Association of Women in Music.

Works

Ozaita composes mainly chamber and symphonic works, but is also known for guitar compositions. Selected works include:

• Pelleas et Mélisande, opera with text by Pablo Neruda
• Prelude and Dance with four variations (1982)
• Suite, Op 61 (1991)
• Suggestions bowling alleys (1991)
• Microparts guitar [Suite] (1994): [I.] Prelude, [II.] Tambourin, [III.] Song, [IV.] Rags
• Nana (1999)
• Obscura lyrics (1999)
• Tribute to Bernard Shaw (2005)
• Prelude and mosaic, Op 65 (2005)
• Nice trio (2007)
• Suggestive Quintet (2007)
• Theme with Variations (2010)

Her compositions have been recorded in RNE (Radio Classic), including Tema con variaciones for piano.