EUBO keyboards & continuo

Daniel Zapico studied early plucked instruments at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMuC) with Xavier Díaz-Latorre, and graduated in 2006 with the highest qualification. He also studied with prestigious players Laura Mónica Pustilnik, Rolf Lislevand, Eduardo Egüez, Luca Pianca, Robert Barto, Juan Carlos Rivera and Hopkinson Smith. He co-founded the ensemble Forma Antiqva with his brothers Aarón and Pablo; the group has participated in many Spanish festivals, and toured Brazil, Bolivia, Australia and Singapore. The brothers' recordings include Bizzarro and recently Insólito Estupor. Daniel is also member of La Caravaggia, winner of the international competition organised by Les Sacqueboutiers in Toulouse in 2006. He was selected for the Académie Baroque Européenne d'Ambronay in 2006, directed by Gabriel Garrido, and in 2007 was a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra for tours with Christina Pluhar and Margaret Faultless. In 2008 he worked again with Christina Pluhar and her ensemble Arpeggiata.

Nadja Lesaulnier studied harpsichord with Pierre Hantaï and Élisabeth Joyé in Paris before moving to Barcelona to study with Beatrice Martin at the Escuola Superior de Musica de Catalunya where she also studied chamber music with Manfred Kramer. In 2003, Nadja began studying with Jesper Christensen, Andrea Marcon and Jörg-Andreas Bötticher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and completed her harpsichord soloist diploma with honours in 2007. In the same year, she won second prize at the International Harpsichord Competition Paola Bernardi in Bologna. Nadja has performed in Vienna, Schaffhausen, Venice, Stuttgart, Melk, Zurich, and worked with the Venice Baroque Orchestra and La Cetra. She also studies baroque violin and baroque double bass, and is now completing her education by studying fortepiano and continuo at Schola Cantorum. Together with her sister Chani Lesaulnier, she founded the harpsichord duo Le Petit Concert Baroque. The ensemble was prize-winner in the Schmelzer International Competition 2005 in Austria, and in May 2008 Nadja won First Prize at the same competition.