The Ecuadorian pianist Aarón Ormaza Vera obtained his bachelor’s degree in his home country in 2016 and then his second bachelor’s degree in 20202 with the renowned pedagogue Jan Wijn at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He is currently following a Masters in Amsterdam with Frank van de Laar.
During his stay in Amsterdam he also studied fortepiano with Olga Paschenko, and benefited from master classes with Jeff Cohen, Kelvin Grout, Geoffrey Madge, Enrico Pace, Aleksandar Madžar, Boris Slutsky, Alexander Gavrylyuk, James Giles, Artur Pizarro, Boris Berman and Miguel Ituarte.
He is a prize winner of the 8th YPF European Piano Competition (Netherlands), the IX Stasys Vainiūnas Competition for Pianists and Chamber Ensembles (Lithuania) and the International Student LiedDuo Competition in Groningen (Netherlands).
Aarón is an experienced chamber musician and accompanist. He has already played in some of the most important concert halls in the Netherlands, such as TivoliVredenburg, Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven and the Toonzaal Den Bosch.
He currently plays in song duos with Kris Ng and Lucie van Ree and is part of Duo Ormaza with his brother Jacob. He also works as a freelance accompanist for the Dutch National Opera Academy of the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He also performed frequently as a soloist with an orchestra in Ecuador, where he played concertos by Haydn, Beethoven, Grieg and Liszt.