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Junkal Guerrero

Andoain, Guipúzcoa 1968

Junkal Guerrero was born in Andoain (Basque Country-Spain) in 1968. She studied at San Sebastian High Conservatory reaching high titulation in Piano, Music Language, Clavichord, Musical Pedagogy and Choir Conduction. She improved her musical formation in several courses with choral masters like Javier Busto, Pierre Cao, eric Ericsson, Erkhi Pohjola, Carl Hogset, Gunnar Erikson, Anders Eby, Garu Graden, John Poole, Laszlo Heltay…

Her first coral conducting experience began with two choir from her hometown, Andoain: Alberto Agirre Choi and Xaramel Children Choir.

She has directed Lasarte Oria public Music School and it’s choir betewen 1989 and 1999. From 1999 on she is piano teacher at Francisco Escudero Profesional Conservatory in San Sebastian. By the same time, she has taken part in several choirs: Hodeiertz, Gipuzkoa Youth Choir and Kanta Cantemus Koroa.

Experience in Kanta Cantemus Choir betewen 1995 and 2007 conducted by Javier Busto has left an indelible trace in her musical career. With this women choir she has premiered and recorded some Javier Busto’s works. With KCK she also premiered some of her own compositions , and also Eva Ugalde’s others. By the way she has gone deep into most exigent vocal repertory for equal voices.

She has conducted for 2 years the Basque Music School Federation’s Choir and has been invited as conductor to the Children Choir Conducting Course organized by this Federation. She also has been invited as conductor for several choral meetings organized by the Choral Federation from Gipuzkoa. In November 2013 the Federation of Choirs of Madrid invited her to teach a course in choral pedagogy at Getafe and she also teached about choir conducting and listening choral education in Valladolid and Hondarribia at 2016.

In 2014 the coral Contest Antigua in Zumarraga elected her as official composer. During the contest (June 2014) the choirs musted play a work of her. Next year, in 201, 5 she was member of the jury in this Zumarraga contest. In September 2014 in Pamplona she leaded a workshop dedicated to his music organized by the Federation of Choirs of Navarra. In november 2014 she was member of the team that boosted «La mirada azul» proyect, an special event dedicated to the famous composer Javier Busto. In 2016 she was member of the jury of the National Choir Grand Prix in Zumarraga, Gipuzkoa. In 2016 and 2017 she has been comisioned for the jury of the National School Choir Constest organized by the Cuture Ministry of Spain in Madrid.
From 2012 to 2017 she has conducted Loinatz Abesbatza from Beasain and recorded a CD compiling works of new basque composers.

Nowadays she conducts Luberri Abesbatza, a parents and teachers choir at Luberri High School from San Sebastian and Luberri Xuri abesbatza, an equal voice female choir created as a spin-off from Luberri abesbatza. She also sings with KUP taldea, a mixed choir conducted bt Gabriel Baltés.

Her work «Bi Bihotz» was the compulsory song in 2007 at Tolosa Children Choir Competition. Four years later, in 2011, the same happened with her «Kalera Gazteak» and in 2015 with «Non degu, non». In 2016 «Eguzki Printzak» was the compulsory song for equal voices-folklore at Tolosa International Choir Contest and the same thing will happen in 2022 with «Errota»

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