About me
Edurne Arizu is a multidisciplinary artist: accordionist, composer, singer, and director of theater and video. She has a career as a performer and composer in music, dance, circus, and theater productions that has taken her to perform in various countries across Europe, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and the USA.
She studied accordion at the Conservatorio Superior Pablo Sarasate (Pamplona) and Musicology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
As a contemporary accordionist, Edurne created her first album, Fricciones (2018, BalaioProducciones), as a quartet, featuring a contemporary language that blends traditional music and progressive jazz. Her second work, Relevos, premiered at the 32nd Granollers Jazz Festival (2022) with arrangements for accordion, an ensemble of 13 musicians, and a dancer.
She recently won a Bcn Crea 2023 grant to research music and artificial intelligence and has recorded a sound triptych, Physis, with accordion and artificial intelligence (nanAI algorithm), where she explores improvisation with nature through AI.
She has composed and performed music for various shows she regularly works with; notably, the premiere of a work by choreographer Inés Boza, a Spanish dancer who worked with Pina Bausch's company and will premiere her work El salto del Ciervo in October 2024 with music written and performed live by Edurne Arizu.
Her notable works also include collaborations with the company Los escultores del aire (with premieres in Poland and New York), the 2022 creation Bi-hotz: dos pulsaciones with Inés Boza, and music created for the play Gracias por haber existido by Ainara Arizu, premiered at ENT (Pamplona) and Teatro Quique San Francisco (Madrid).
She has released several albums, including Fricciones, her debut album as a composer and producer.