Nacho Ojeda is a musician, pianist and interdisciplinary performer based in New York City. Born in Sevilla, Spain in 1995, he began his musical studies at the age of 5. He earned his Bachelor of Music in piano performance in the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid and a Master of Music in classical piano performance in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, as well as a master’s in Contemporary Performance in the Manhattan School of Music under renowned musicians Peggy Kampmeier and Anthony de Mare.

Nacho is deeply interested in the music of our time and the inventive possibilities New Music provides in terms of performance and collaboration among artists of different disciplines. He understands composition, performance and improvisation as three sides of the same process – music-making – and approaches music with passion and intention regardless of its genre. For him, collaboration with composers, actors, dancers, visual artists and other musicians is paramount to reaching a meaningful channel of expression.

He has performed in numerous festivals around Europe and the United States, including the British Isles Music Festival (Surrey, UK), and the Kuhmo Festival (Kuhmo, Finland), among others. Specifically in the field of New Music, he has attended New Music on the Point (Vermont, US), SPLICE Festival (Michigan, US) and Creative Dialogue (New Mexico, US). He has also collaborated with several contemporary ensembles such as Noise Catalogue, Tactus Ensemble (both from the New York City area) and the NYKY Ensemble (Helsinki, Finland).

He has inspired and premiered works by Colombian composer Samuel Torres, Wong Foo Jeng, and Luis McDougal, among many other composers in the New York City scene. Additionally, he has premiered several works from leading Spanish and Latin-American composers with friend and violinist María Muñoz, including pieces by Agustín González Acilu, Miguel Bustamante, Pedro Guajardo, Roberto Mosquera, Jorge Grundman, Eduardo Costa, and Miguel Ángel Santaella, in addition to collaborating with many more during his time in Madrid. In the New Music opera scene, he was part of the world premiere production of the stage version of Ruby Fulton’s opera “Adam’s Run”, as well as having been the lead keyboardist and harpsichordist in the world premiere of the microtonal opera “Flash Flash: The Two Deaths of Andy Warhol”, composed by Finnish composer Juhani Nuorvala.