Clelia Iruzun
Pianist Clélia Iruzun has had an internationally significant career, often performing contemporary Brazilian works as well as pieces from the Romantic mainstream. She is based in Britain but returns to Brazil several times yearly for performances.
Iruzun was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1963. She took up the piano at four, playing by ear, and by seven, she was studying with local teachers, entering competitions, and winning prizes. Iruzun enrolled at the University of Rio de Janeiro School of Music at nine, studying with Arnaldo Cohen and Anna Carolina Pereira da Silva. She attracted the attention of Brazilian musical heavyweights, both pianists -- including Nelson Freire -- and composers, several of whom dedicated pieces to her. Iruzun earned a German DAAD scholarship but instead decided to move to London, where she studied with Maria Curcio and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music. Studying piano with Christopher Elton and conducting with Colin Metters, she graduated in 1988. That year, she made her debut at London's Wigmore Hall. She continued to take lessons from Noretta Conci, Merces de Silva Telles, and master classes with Stephen Kovacevich and Fou Ts'Ong and racked up major international competition prizes.
In general, Iruzun's career has combined Classical and Romantic repertory with contemporary music from Brazil and other Latin American countries. She has a number of world premieres to her credit, including works by Villa-Lobos, Henrique Oswald, and João Guilherme Ripper. Iruzun has performed across Europe, the Americas, and China, where she has made repeat visits, including one with the Coull Quartet. She plays solo recitals, chamber music, and more than 25 concertos. In London in 2011, Iruzun founded the Brazil Three Centuries of Music event at Southbank Centre, with the goal of showcasing Brazilian music in the UK.
Iruzun has recorded mostly for the Intim Musik, Lorelt, Somm, and Meridian labels. Her 2005 Lorelt release Lecuona: Ernesto and Ernestina featured the music of that brother-and-sister pair of composers. On Somm in 2020, Iruzun issued an album pairing the piano concerto of Oswald with the Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 ("Egyptian"), of Camille Saint-Saëns.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Nimrod Borenstein: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Op. 91, Light and Darkness, Op. 80 & Shirim, Op. 94
Clelia Iruzun, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, I Musicanti, Nimrod Borenstein
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 20 Jan 2023
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Mignone & Albéniz: Piano Concertos
Clelia Iruzun, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 27 Oct 2017
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Treasures from the New World Vol. 3
Clelia Iruzun, Fabio Zanon, Marcelo Barboza
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 16 Jun 2023
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Treasures from the New World
Clelia Iruzun, Roger Coull, Coull Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by SOMM Recordings on 20 Mar 2020
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Ernesto Nazareth: Portrait of Rio
Classical - Released by Lorelt on 1 Jul 2015
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Lecuona: Ernesto and Ernestina
Classical - Released by Lorelt on 26 Jul 2005
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Mompou: Selected Works, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 29 Apr 2016
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Oswald, Saint-Saëns & Nepomuceno: Piano Works
Clelia Iruzun, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 21 Aug 2020
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Treasures from the New World, Vol. 2
Chamber Music - Released by SOMM Recordings on 16 Apr 2021
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Maconchy: Orchestral Music
Clelia Iruzun, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Odaline de la Martinez
Classical - Released by Lorelt on 1 Sep 2011
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Mompou: Selected Works, Vol 1
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 10 Dec 2012
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Latin American Dances (Ernesto Nazareth - Fructuoso Vianna - Ignacio Cervantes)
Classical - Released by Intim Musik on 1 Oct 2010
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Villa-Lobos: Piano Music
Classical - Released by Meridian Records on 18 Oct 2006
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Francisco Mignone - Piano Music
Classical - Released by Lorelt on 4 Jun 2007
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The Golden Years
Marcelo Barboza, Clelia Iruzun
Classical - Released by Meridian Records on 13 Oct 2014
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The Waltz Album (Fryderyk Chopin - Heitor Villa-Lobos - Carl Maria von Weber)
Classical - Released by Intim Musik on 1 Jan 2001
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Brazilian Mosaic
Lontano, Clelia Iruzun, Odaline de la Martinez
Classical - Released by Lorelt on 31 Aug 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo