Asier Urkijo

Piano Tuning Technician

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BIOGRAPHY

TECHNICAL-TUNER OF:

- Bilbao Philharmonic Society
- Bilbao and Euskadi Symphony Orchestra
- Arriaga Theater of Bilbao
- Campos Elíseos Theater
- OLBE - ABAO
- Joaquín Achúcarro.

Tuner responsible for the Musika-Music Festival (La Follé Journeé) as well as several music centers in Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, etc ...

Tuner of the Baroque music season in Bilbao, with knowledge of historical temperaments as well as instruments at the mechanic level (Keys). Since 2010, he has been signed by Kawai as official Technician-Tuner of the Shigeru-Kawai house for Spain, with specific training of his teachers in Germany (Dusseldorf) and Hamamatsu (Japan), to obtain an MPA (Master Piano Artisan) degree. ).

Training at Steinway & Sons (Hamburg).

Performing and tuning works for artists of the likes of: Joaquin Achúcarro, Maria Joao Pires, Lang Lang, Alicia de Larrocha, Emmanuel Ax, Ivo Pogorelich, Heléne Grimaud, Javier Perianes, Ivan Martin, Aldo Ciccolini, Rafael Orozco, Marta Zabaleta , Mari and Momo Kodama, Hnas.Labeque, Herbie Hancook, Michel Camilo, Chick Corea, Brad Meldhau, etc.

Authorized Dealer of the brand Kawai and Shigeru Kawai:

http://www.kawai-global.com/product/

INTEGRAL MAINTENANCE

Piano tuning, regulation and intonation

GENERAL REPAIRS

Repairs in general
and special

GUARANTEED SALE

Sale of pianos of
the brand KAWAI

IN PRESS

"EL PIANO ES EL REY ABSOLUTO" The Musika-Música program dedicated to Romanticism turns to the instrument. Two tuners work on 14 units. "The piano and Chopin are indissoluble elements", said the Andalusian pianist Javier Perianes yesterday before playing a sonata by the Polish composer in the Euskaduna. "It is the instrument he chose to transmit his art, with a great sense of melody backed by a unsurpassed harmony, a music in which the left hand of the pianist compares with the trunk of a tree and the right with the leaves that the wind can move freely "...

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"21 PIANOS y 1.300 RACIONES" Musika-Música is preparing a dining room for artists that will open nine hours a day. The festival reserves 750 rooms in Bilbao. Grand pianos do not abound. All those available in Bilbao do not cover the demand of the Musika-Music festival next weekend, dedicated to Mozart. Adding up those who contribute the Arriaga Theater and the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS), among other entities, only add six of the Steinway brand, the one required by the majority of professionals ...

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elpais.com

"Sometimes you have to sharpen the nerves of the pianist more than the piano" With just over 20 long years arrived, he did his job, and left, a point embarrassed. That was his answer to the call of the Arriaga Theater, from where they requested his services to tune the piano that minutes later Joaquín Achúcarro, the great Bilbao maestro, was going to play. Days later, the legendary pianist contacted him and, since then, almost twenty years ago, is his camera tuner, if you can call it that. Asier refines the pianos of the Arriaga Theater, of the BOS, of the Philharmonic Society, of the Campos Theater ... Come on, of countless pianos. It is a long hands or a silver ear; one of the half dozen people who keep this rare office in Bizkaia ....

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