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IBON KOTERON
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bilbao in 1967, from the
1987-88 course he began learning and inmediately teaching the basque horn-pipes
"alboka" (a kind of clarinet) and "gaita" or
"dultzaina" (a sort of oboe).
His role in the survival of the
almost extinct alboka is undoubted, and recognized by the last traditional
players, having got a well established school of modern alboka players for whom
the disk "Leonen Orroak", with the
great accordionist Kepa Junkera has became the major reference.
Together they organized the two festivals in honour of the last great
traditional alboka players, Leon Bilbao (in Artea, 1996) and Txilibrin (in
Bilbao, 1998).
Now, he is working in a multimedia
alboka method, when is job as a philosophy teacher at secondary school lets him
time to do so.
A lot of published articles and
collaborations at colloquiums demonstrate his knowledge about the alboka and
how much he loves it. As one of its more representative players, very many
groups have called him for recordings and concerts: Tapia eta Leuria, Tomás San
Miguel, Berrogüetto, Tejedor, and more frequently Kepa Junkera.
Kepa Junkera has produced Ibon's
second major recording: Airea (Elkar 2004). This work will surely
be an inflexion point for alboka's world and for basque music in general: new
alboka's scales have been developed by Ibon and his friend and luthier Osés.
Other artist that collaborated at
this new project are: Gilles Chabenat (his hurdy-gurdy appears at very many
tracks ot the CD), Soledonna and Faltriqueira (Corse and Galician female voices
that added a magical atraction to the project), Heikki Syrjänen, Andrea Pisu
and Roston Kuchichian (their finnish liru and mänkeri, launeddas from Sardinia,
and armenian duduk transform alboka melodies into a traditional
world-workshop).
The
members of Ibon Koteron are:
Iñaki
Plaza – percussions, txalaparta, trikitia
Ion
Garmendia – percussions, txalaparta, xirula
Belen Fernandez – cello, voice
Unai
Frantsesena – teclados, percussions, txalaparta
Ibon
Koteron – alboka, flauta, voice