Andrés Ortiz

Andrés Ortiz Director Fundador CEPIC
Andrés Ortiz combines his concert career which an intense pedagogic work. He performs regularly as a soloist and as a chamber musician in numerous concert halls in Europe and the United States, such as the Chicago Cultural Center, the Phillips Collection in Washington, the Yamaha Salon in New York, the Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Fundación Juan March in Madrid. He has made live recordings for Radio Télevision Suisse, WTFM in Chicago, the Phillips Collection in Washington and Yamaha Artist Services in New York. He has premiered works by important composers such as Tapestries and Nonsenses for violin and guitar by Tomás Marco, Partita II for solo violin by Tomás Garrido -dedicated to him by the composer- and the Trio Música de Cítaras by Jorge Taramasco. As a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, he has performed under the baton of Sir Colin Davis and Herbert Blomstedt at some of the most important halls in Europe, such as the Royal Concertgebow in Amsterdam, the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Musikverein Grosser Saal in Vienna. He plays regularly with guitarist Pablo Rioja, with whom he forms Animacorde. The duo has recorded the CD "Revisiting Violin & Guitar" for Eudora Records, receiving the Melómano de Oro award by specialised critics.
He is a qualified Suzuki teacher by the European Suzuki Association, having received training from Christophe Bossuat, Joanne Martin and Geneviève Proust at the Suzuki Institute in Lyon (France). He has also been trained in Rolland Pedagogy by Lynne Denig, Nancy Kredel and Claudio Forcada. He currently combines his performing career with his role as Co- Director at Centro para la Pedagogía de los Instrumentos de Cuerda (CEPIC).
Born in Madrid, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, where he obtained the Prize to the Best Chamber Music with Piano Group handed by her Majesty Queen Sophia of Spain. He then pursued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany) and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, with scholarships from the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Community of Madrid and the Isaac Albéniz Foundation. Among his teachers are Santiago de la Riva, José Luis García, Lorenz Nasturica and Simon Fischer, as well as Rainer Schmidt, Marta Gulyas and Eldar Nebolsin in the field of chamber music.