María Luisa Ozaita

Maria Luisa Ozaita (born 20 May 1939) is a Spanish pianist, harpsichorist, musicologist, conductor and composer.

Biography

Maria Luisa Ozaita Marquis was born in Barakaldo, Vizcaya, in Spain. She studied with Fernando Remacha, and continued her studies in Copenhagen with Leif Thybo and K.J. Isaksen through a MFA exchange scholarship. She also studied harpsichord in France with Kenneth Gilbert and at Darmstadt in Germany.

Ozaita's has performed internationally in Europe, North America and Eastern Europe, and her compositions have also been performed internationally. She lectures on music history, and has published professional articles in magazines including Confutatis and OpusMusica and in the book Women in Music by Patricia Adkins Chiti. Ozaita also collaborated on the Spanish edition of Women in Music. She is a member of the La Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País and was the founding president of the Spanish Association of Women in Music.

Works

Ozaita composes mainly chamber and symphonic works, but is also known for guitar compositions. Selected works include:

• Pelleas et Mélisande, opera with text by Pablo Neruda
• Prelude and Dance with four variations (1982)
• Suite, Op 61 (1991)
• Suggestions bowling alleys (1991)
• Microparts guitar [Suite] (1994): [I.] Prelude, [II.] Tambourin, [III.] Song, [IV.] Rags
• Nana (1999)
• Obscura lyrics (1999)
• Tribute to Bernard Shaw (2005)
• Prelude and mosaic, Op 65 (2005)
• Nice trio (2007)
• Suggestive Quintet (2007)
• Theme with Variations (2010)

Her compositions have been recorded in RNE (Radio Classic), including Tema con variaciones for piano.