Ane Legarreta

Ane Legarreta
Ane Legarreta
Born
Ane Legarreta Méndez

(1994-04-02) 2 April 1994
Galdakao
CitizenshipSpain
Alma materMusikene
OccupationConductor
OrganizationsNetwork of Women Artists and Creators
Websiteanelegarreta.com

Ane Legarreta Méndez (born on 2 April 1994 in Galdakao) is a Basque conductor.[1][2][3]

In 2021 she founded the Network of Women Artists and Creators (ESAS), an orchestra composed entirely of women.[4]

In 2025, she became the first woman to lead the Portugalete Wind Orchestra as its director.[5]

Early life and education

Her first steps began at the Máximo Moreno Galdakao music school at the age of 5. She studied piano and harp at the Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga Conservatory in Bilbao.

She studied orchestral conducting at the Musikene Higher Music Conservatory in Donostia-San Sebastián with Arturo Tamayo. She obtained a master's degree in symphonic, instrumental and vocal conducting in Madrid. She studied conducting contemporary chamber music in Lugano, Switzerland. She studied opera conducting in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy.

Career

She began conducting the Galdakao Band at the age of 19, becoming the first woman to do so. In 2018, she confessed to the journalist Etxahun Gonzalez, "Historically, men have given these orders and it seems that women, and even young people, have to make a double effort to show that we are capable."[6][7]

When she finished her music studies in 2018, as usual, she took her final exam conducting the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra at the Euskalduna Palace, achieving excellent results. She has been a guest conductor with the Basque Country Symphony Orchestra, the Navarre Symphony Orchestra and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, among others.[8]

As he stated in an interview with Argia magazine in February 2021, "Looking to the future, my dream is to create an orchestra."[9] In 2021 she founded the Network of Women Artists and Creators (ESAS), an orchestra composed entirely of women.[4] In 2023, ESAS is a 35-woman orchestra, lacking trumpets, trombones and tubas. It gave its first major concert at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao in January. It has had chamber performances in Barcelona, Madrid and Mallorca.[10][11][12][13]

Legarreta is a collaborator with Euskadi Irratia (EITB), where she talks about the daily life of classical music.[14][15]

In 2023, Legarreta was chosen to give the opening speech at the 2023 Galdakao patron saint festivities.[16][17]

In 2025, Legarreta directed the experimental opera Exodus, a theatrical and musical project that premiered at the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao.[18] The opera was composed by Jon Sáenz, with a libretto by Hegoa Álvarez and starring the actor Lander Otaola.[19][20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ane Legarreta: "La enseñanza musical debería ser obligatoria en los colegios"". EITB (in Spanish). 2023-12-03. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  2. ↑ "Vídeo: Vivencias de la directora de orquesta Ane Legarreta en su trayectoria profesional". orain.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  3. ↑ Casillas, Iraitz (2023-07-13). "«Las directoras de orquesta hemos tenido que reinventar la profesión»". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  4. 1 2 Cano, María José (2024-11-14). "ESAS o la música clásica en femenino". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  5. ↑ Tele7 (2025-05-08). "Una mujer dirige por primera vez la Banda Municipal de Música de Portugalete". Tele7 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Sarria, Etxahun Gonzalez (2018-04-23). "Ane Legarreta: "Emakumeok bidea ireki dugu gizonen gotorleku honetan"". Geuria (in Basque). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  7. ↑ "La banda invita a Ane Legarreta como directora". Noticias de Gipuzkoa (in Spanish). 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  8. ↑ "Euskadiko Orkestra se suma a EITB Maratoia bajo la batuta de Ane Legarreta". EITB (in Spanish). 2020-12-07. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  9. ↑ ""Musika klasikoa oso baloratuta dago euskal gizartean"". Argia (in Basque). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  10. ↑ "Natalia Sánchez, Nekane Díaz y Ane Legarreta premio Zirgari (07/03/2023)". EITB (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  11. ↑ "Premio Zirgari 2023 para ESAS, por impulsar los encuentros culturales con protagonismo femenino". EITB (in Spanish). 2023-03-07. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  12. ↑ Soria, Txema (2023-03-07). "Camino de la igualdad". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  13. ↑ Mujika, Jon (2023-03-08). "Sara Estévez y las entidades AMUGE, Lanbroa y ESAS recogen los premios Zirgari 2023". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  14. ↑ Casillas, Iraitz (2023-07-13). "«Las directoras de orquesta hemos tenido que reinventar la profesión»". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  15. ↑ "Oídos alerta ante una orquesta con la batuta en la mano". EITB (in Spanish). 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  16. ↑ Martín, Susana (2023-07-23). "La joven directora de orquesta Ane Legarreta dará el pregón de Galdakao". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  17. ↑ Peláez, Alba (2023-07-20). "La directora de orquesta Ane Legarreta lanzará el pregón de las fiestas de Galdakao". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  18. ↑ Antzokia, Teatro Arriaga. "EXODUS". Teatro Arriaga Antzokia (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-27.
  19. ↑ Cabrera, Isabel Urrutia (2025-03-03). "La ópera distópica 'Exodus' romperá moldes en el Arriaga". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-09-27.
  20. ↑ Telleria, Beñat Mujika (2025-03-05). "Opera «esperimentala», klasikoa molde berriekin uztartuz". Berria (in Basque). Retrieved 2025-09-27.
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