Ángela Escauriaza

Celliste

Biografie

Ángela Escauriaza is born in Pamplona (Spain) in 1994. She studies with Diego Arbizu at the Pablo Sarasate´s Professional Conservatory, where she finishes her studies with honours. Later, she meets the cellist Marie Paule Milone and she moves to Paris to do the Cycle Specialisé in the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rueil-Malmaison where she gets the First Cello Prize unanimously. Just after that she studied at the CRR de Paris the Perfecting Cycle that she obtained last year.

She usually gets the advices of teachers like Aldo Mata, Asier Polo, Roland Pidoux, Daniel Grosgurin, Yovan Markovich, Raphael Pidoux, Dimitri Ferchman Claire Désert, Marc Coppey or Sun Won Yang.

Regarding chamber music, she gives numerous concerts in Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Poland with the pianist Maite León with whom she gets the Second Prize in Fernando Remacha´s Chamber Music Competition. She also deepens in strings quartet since her arrival in Paris which allows her to get unanimously the First Prize in her conservatory. Now she plays in Céba Piano  Quartet which she gives a lots of concerts in Paris and in several festivals (Colmar, Alzay Ferron..) this summer.

As far as the orchestral trajectory is concerned, she stands out as a member of the Pablo Sarasate´s orchestra with which she participates in a tour around Poland playing the Elgar concerto as a soloist. She also played as a soloist with the EGO (basque country young orchestra).

She acceded to the Ostinato orchestra where she obtained the orchestral diploma of the CFMO (Centre de Formation des Musiciens d’Orchestre).

She is one of the finalists of the Vatelot-Rampal Competition in Paris.

Nowadays she´s studying at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with the teacher Maarten Mostert.