Ana Liz Ojeda
Ana Liz Ojeda
Born in Valdivia (Chile), Ana Liz Ojeda began studying the violin at
the age of seven with her father. Receiving a scholarship allowed her to
continue her training at Columbus College (USA) with Patricio Cobos. In
1995 she moved to Europe, where until 2004 she studied at the
Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany) under the guidance of Marco
Rizzi, obtaining the Higher Artistic Diploma, the Diploma in Musical
Pedagogy and the Master Degree in Chamber Music.
During this time she
enriched her training by attending masterclasses with András Schiff,
Kathleen Winkler, Philippe Herreweghe, David Kim, Simon Standage,
Giannis Vatikiotis, Helge Slatto, Gottfried von der Goltz, Enrico Gatti
and Stefano Montanari.
Along with intensive orchestral
activity, which saw her playing with various European orchestras until
becoming leader of the second violins in the “Giuseppe Verdi” Symphony
Orchestra of Milan, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, Ana Liz took up the
Baroque violin in 2003. She studied with Ryo Terakado at the Royal
Conservatory of The Hague (The Netherlands), subsequently honing her
skills with Stefano Montanari at the Scuola Civica di Musica in Milan (Italy).
She
decided to devote herself full time to performing early music with
original instruments, and in 2007 was invited by Stefano Montanari to be
part of the Accademia Bizantina directed by Ottavio Dantone, in which
Ana Liz currently plays the role of first soloist in the second violins.
In 2011 she founded “Il Tetraone” Ensemble with Alice Bisanti, Paolo Ballanti, Giovanni Valgimigli and Valeria Montanari, members of Accademia Bizantina. They have already recorded 3 CDs as a Quintet and Quartet with Fortepiano.
With Accademia Bizantina and other early music ensembles, she has a busy performing schedule that has led
to her playing in the most important venues at the international level:
Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Centre (New York), the Isabel Bader Centre
for the Performing Arts (Kingston) and the Four Seasons Centre for the
Performing Arts (Toronto), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona),
Teatro Real (Madrid), Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre (London),
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris) and the Opéra Royal (Versailles), the
Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Berliner Philharmonie and the
Kölner Philharmonie, the Theater an der Wien (Vienna), the Prague
National Theatre, the Beijing National Centre for Performing Arts, Hong
Kong City Hall, the Kiev Philharmonic Theatre, the Esplanade Theatre,
the Royal Opera House of Muscat, Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and the Teatro Municipal in
Santiago de Chile.
She is also often invited to collaborate
with other early music ensembles, including Zefiro, La Risonanza, I
Barocchisti, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, L'Onda Armonica, Concerto
Italiano, Atalanta Fugiens, Il Complesso Barocco, Il Pomo d'Oro,
Göttinger Händel - Festspielorchester, Concerto Romano, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Musica Antiqua Latina and HT Classical.
Since 2022 has been invited to conduct the Chamber Orchestra of
Valdivia, the Classical Orchestra of Talca and the Classical Orchestra
of the University of Santiago, Chile.
In the
educational field, she is regularly invited by the University of
Santiago and Catholic University of Chile for masterclasses and Baroque
music projects. In 2024 she conducted the
“Young baroque Orchestra” of the Innsbruck Early Music Festival in
Austria. In 2023 she taught violin at the “Summer Camp” of Accademia
Bizantina in Bagnacavallo, Italy. In
November 2022 she held a masterclass at the Hochschule für Musik
Mannheim. In 2019 she was the professor of modern and baroque
violin, conducting also the Chamber Orchestra at the University of
Talca, Chile. In the same year taught baroque violin at the Ticino Music Festival in Lugano, Switzerland.
Her discography includes: “The Art of Fugue” by J. S. Bach (Decca) and the Concerti Grossi by Händel, Corelli and Geminiani as second violin solo with Accademia Bizantina (HDB Sonus); the Concertos for Strings by Vivaldi (Naïv), "Bach Concertos" with Viktoria Mullova (Onyx) and "Vivaldi con moto" with Giuliano Carmignola (Archiv); "Gli strali d'amore" by André Campra with La Risonanza and Fabio Bonizzoni (Glossa); the “Trout” Quintet by Schubert, the Piano Quartet Op. 16, the Piano Quartets WoO 36 by Beethoven and Mozart Quartets with fortepiano KV 478 and KV 493 on original instruments, with “Il Tetraone” Ensemble (Novantiqua).
Ana Liz plays a violin built by Marco Minnozzi, Ravenna 2020.
