Matinée 8: Ainara Ortega & Iñaki Salvador

Ainara Ortega (Hernani, 1981) always comes onto the stage with a flower sitting jauntily in her hair and a rucksack in top hat form from which she extracts, in small but generous doses, the many “egos” that inhabit her artistic personality. She may show us the clown that never leaves her (she took classes with Peio Arnaez, Néstor Muzo and Gabriel Chamé), firmly grasping the bow, if not the arrows, and from her violin issue aromas not only taken from her studies to become a teacher of that instrument, but from the music of the world, in general, and of her peculiar universe, in particular. She couldn’t, for the occasion, abandon her accomplice in myriad musical twists and turns, the pianist from San Sebastián, Iñaki Salvador. Together the two have recorded little gems in her personal crown, such as the celebrated “Te doy una canción” (Vaivén, 2009), and he is the pianist on Ainara’s first album as lead vocalist, “Scat” (Vaivén, 2015). The duo has given birth to musical proposals including Kantaginjazz y que hoy y aquí, with Ainara making a rundown of her almost two decades on stage, opening Pandora’s box to reveal its full contents, concealing nothing.