Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena (1965.Vitoria) studied composition composition with C. Bernaola (Jesús Guridi Conservatory, Vitoria) and Franco Donatoni (Scuola Cívica, Milan, Italy). Orchestrator of several films, Gerenabarrena has written pieces for orchestra and chamber ensembles, theatre, dance, acousmatics, sound installations and multidisciplinary shows. With a very free processing in the evolution of sound in time, her music appears in fragmented gestures and figures in a labyrinthic lines; re-inventing the result in the time to based on timbrical aspect as a structural element.
Her music has been presented in different festivals and concerts in Europe, America and Japan, and released on several Cds. She has got commissions by the Cultural Minister of Spain, Basque Government, CDMC, Quincena Musical, Basque Countrry Symphony Orchestra, KREA, Author Foundation, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Mikel Laboa Cátedra, BBVA Foundation.
Artist in residence: Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan), Studio Alpha/VICC (Visby, Sweden), USF./Verfet (Bergen Norway), Studio LEC / Miso Music( Lisbon).
Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena is a Professor of Counterpoint and Harmony at the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Basque Country MUSIKENE.