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Pilar Fontalba

Pierre Boulez said of her: “J’ai pu constater les grandes qualités instrumentales et la forte personnalité de cette interprète”Recommended by Heinz Holliger, she was a guest performer for several seasons in the Academy of the Festival de Lucerne, with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain.

Since 2004 she has been the oboe soloist of the Symphony Orchestra of Navarre.

In 2004 she founded the Ensemble Laboratorium, was the oboist of the Ensemble Phönix of Basle for 15 years and is currently a member of the Ensemble Ö in Chur and Vertixe Sonora. A regular contributor to Ensemble Modern, Neopercusión, Recherche, Experimental Studio of Freiburg, Placa Base, Koan 2 and Collective Impulsion.…

A titular teacher in the Higher Conservatoire of the Balearic Islands since 2004, she currently teaches oboe and music classes in the Higher Conservatoire of Music of Navarre. Founder and president of Fundación E7.2, set up to promote contemporary music in Navarre.

Has recorded 3 CDs and has recently released the first CD of a new repertoire collection for oboe dedicated to her, with works by Carolina Cerezo, Javier Torres Maldonado, Juan José Eslava, José María Sánchez Verdú, Louis Aguirre and Germán Cancián.

She won the Hegar Prize in Zurich for her interpretation of Kinêsis, by Gérard Zinsstag. She also won the Prix Superieur Inter-régional of the Grand-Est region in France.