Cast
Eduardo Ortega - Violin
Eduardo comes from Madrid. He started playing the violin at a very young age, thanks to the influence of his mother, as a violinist in the Sinfónica de Madrid (Madrid Symphony Orchestra). He has studied with masters, such as Polina Kotliarskay, Vartan Manoogian, Lian Chai, Mikhail Milman, Joaquín Clerch, Agustí Coma and Sergio Castro.
He has been a violin teacher at the Conservatorio de Madrid (Madrid Conservatory), and although he was classically-trained, in his career as a musician, he's explored diverse paths. Besides the violin, he plays: the guitar, the drums, the bass, the mandolin, the piano, the harmonica... and he sings on in his tracks.
In 1999, he and his band, Zona Tsunami (Tsunami Zone), won 3 awards at the Festival Villa Rock de Madrid (Rocktown Madrid). Among the awards, he won Best Performer from Madrid for that year, awarded by the AIE. He's worked often with artists from across the Spanish pop-rock spectrum, such as Enrique Urquijo, Quique González, Dover, Hevia, M-Clan, Coti, Miguel Bosé, María Pagés, Clara Montes, Olga Pericet, Manuel Liñán, Rocío Molina, Carlos Baute, Ismael Serrano, Lolita, Tindersticks, La musicalité...
He's also taken part in movie soundtracks for “Hable con ella” (Talk to Her) by Almodóvar, "Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena" (Things That Make Life Worth Living), with Pasión Vega, "Iberia", by Carlos Saura and "Non Ti Muovere" (Don't Move) with music by Lucio Godoy.
He also took part in the jazz-quintet headed by Baldo Martínez, master of the double-bass and one of the most important voices in European Jazz. His most recent project, other than PaGAGnini, is the band NUR, which is about to put out a new disc.
Fernando Clemente - Violin
Fernando Clemente was trained in classical music at the Conservatorio de Sevilla (Seville Conservatory), augmented his skills under the wings of masters such as David López de Prados and Eduardo Ortega; he's also got performance training, directed by Maria José Acosta and developed with companies from Seville such as La Caída del Cuerno (The Fall of the Horn); and he has a degree as an audiovisual technician.
As a musician, he played a diverse range of very different styles, from world-music, through folk (Rarefolk) and techno, up to Jazz-Flamenco (Biriliquitiqui) and Jazz, in which he is currently doing his work with the band Tres Menos Quartet (Three Minus Quartet).
In his work as a composer, he's composed the music for various dance shows for the choreographers Amaury Lebrun and Ainhoa Sarmiento; and in terms of audiovisual work, he's composed soundtracks for various film-short and other formats with the band Sogecable.
Besides all of this, Fernando has always combined his life as a multi-disciplinary artist with his job as a stage-manager for the Opera at the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla (Seville Master's Theater), as a producer with Otel.lo (Elsinor) and at the Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid Royal Theater), where he has worked with the biggest-name singers in Classical music, such as Robert Lepage, Mstislav Rostropovich and Plácido.
Gartxot Ortiz - Cello
Gartxot was born in Pamplona and began playing the cello as a youngster at the age of 9. Besides his musical career, he reigns in the kitchen of his own restaurant, in his hometown.
He toured around Spain for a while in a chamber-music group, until he left behind band and restaurant to start a new phase in Madrid.
He's dedicated himself to teaching music to children in various schools and working as a musician in the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (The National Classical Theater Company).