María Luisa Ozaita

María Luisa Ozaita Marqués (20 May 1939, in Barakaldo, Spain – 5 April 2017, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist, conductor and composer.

Biography María Luisa Ozaita Marques was born in Barakaldo, Vizcaya, in Spain. She studied with Fernando Remacha, and continued her studies in Copenhagen with Leif Thybo and K.J. Isaksen through a MFA exchange scholarship. She also studied harpsichord in France with Kenneth Gilbert and at Darmstadt in Germany.

Ozaita performed internationally in Europe, North America and Eastern Europe, and her compositions have also been performed internationally. She lectured on music history, and published professional articles in magazines including Confutatis and OpusMusica and in the book Women in Music by Patricia Adkins Chiti. Ozaita also collaborated on the Spanish edition of Women in Music. She was a member of the La Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País and was the founding president of the Spanish Association of Women in Music.

Works Ozaita composed mainly chamber and symphonic works, but was also known for guitar compositions. Selected works include:

Pelleas et Mélisande, opera with text by Pablo Neruda Prelude and Dance with four variations (1982) Suite, Op 61 (1991) Suggestions bowling alleys (1991) Microparts guitar [Suite] (1994): [I.] Prelude, [II.] Tambourin, [III.] Song, [IV.] Rags Nana (1999) Obscura lyrics (1999) Tribute to Bernard Shaw (2005) Prelude and mosaic, Op 65 (2005) Nice trio (2007) Suggestive Quintet (2007) Theme with Variations (2010)