Enrique Ugarte
Enrique Ugarte is a Basque accordionist, conductor, and composer born in Tolosa,
Basque Country, Spain, on September 1, 1957. He began playing the accordion at
four years of age, performing his first public concert at seven, before studying
accordion and oboe at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in San Sebastián.
Ugarte pursued further studies in composition at the Musikhochschule München and
conducting under Sergiu Celibidache at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. A
highly accomplished accordionist, his awards include European champion in
Tilburg, vice world champion in Rec...
