Íñigo Pírfano is a Spanish conductor, born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1973.
Education
From September 1997, Pirfano studied at Mozarteum University in Salzburg (Austria) “Musikleitung” (orchestral, choral and operatic conducting) with Professor Karl Kamper. “Korrepetition” with Professor Wolfgang Niessner and Piano with Professor Karl Wagner. Finally, he took a Conducting Diploma at the Mozarteum, gaining an Auszeichnung, or distinction.
In June 1997, Pirfano conducted the Extraordinary Concert in the Schloss Frohnburg in Salzburg"s Mozarteum.
There, he interpreted works by Stravinsky and Falla and premiered works by young composers of the Mozarteum"s "Seminar für neue Musik".
He then continued his studies with Sir Colin Davis in Dresden and with Karl-Heinz Bloemeke and Kurt Masur in Detmold, Germany.
Career
Education Orchestral conductor Pirfano"s path as an orchestral conductor led him through Austria (Salzburg and Vienna), Germany, Poland and Spain, particularly the cities of Madrid, San Sebastián, Valencia, and Bilbao, where he conducted orchestras and chamber music groups such as the National Basque Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Stettin Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburger Frohnburg Ensemble, Dresdner Hochschulorchester Carl Maria von Weber, Orchestra of the Competition Jugend Musiziert (Germany), Orquestra Filharmónica de la Universitat de Valencia. He personally founded the Orquesta Académica de Madrid. In April 2002, he made his operatic debut with a production of Manuel de Falla"s Retablo de Maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Puppet Show), within the tribute given by the Spanish Institution Círculo de Bellas Artes to Miguel de Cervantes" character Don Quixote.
Writer Iñigo published his first book in May 2012, Ebrietas.
El poder de la belleza In 2013 he published his second book Inteligencia Musical".