About us
"La Conochiave”
The name of this internationally renowned group means cone and gut keys. Pablo Sosa and Taiko Takezawa, the musicians to present a flute repetoire of pieces and to enjoy performing with a variety of musician friends.
The duo emphasizes the authentic presentation of works of the nineteenth,
prefers to play on keys flute in order to realize the older timbres in performance.
Pablo Sosa del Rosario
Pablo was born in 1991 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. He started to study flute in the conservatory of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he finished his Intermediate degree with Catherine Biteur with honors and special award. In 2009 he was admitted in the Royal Conservatory of Madrid. He studied with Manuel Rodríguez Arribas and he graduated in 2013 with honors. While he was studying in Madrid he became interested in early music and he started to play traverso. In 2013 he was admitted for the Early Music Performance Master in Barcelona, where he studied traverso with Marc Hantai. In June 2017 he finished the master course of baroque and classical flute in Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag with Wilbert Hazelzet and Kate Clark with honors and distinction.
He takes part of The Goldfinch Ensemble, who got the first prize in the International Händel Festpiele Gottingen Competition in 2016 and the second prize in the International Early Music Competition in Loire Valley, with William Christie chairing the jury in 2015. Their international career was launched in 2015 when they played in festivals throughout Europe such as Festival de Sablé (FR), Festival de Ambronay (FR), Festival di Natale Pavia (IT), York Early Music Festival (ENG), Lagos Early Music Festival (PT) among others. Also, they have been selected for the EEEmerging project, a program supported by the European Union to support promising young European ensembles. In April 2017, the Goldfinch Ensemble will receive the ‘Chapelconcert Chamber Music Prize’ (Goirle).
He has played in some early music ensembles like Bach Orchestra and Choir of the Netherlands, Armonia Atenea or Luthers Bach Ensemble.
Taiko Takezawa
Born 1991 in Japan, Taiko Itoh gained her Bachelor of Music - on modern and baroque flutes – from the Toho University of music in 2014. From 2014 she did her master study, studying renaissance, baroque and classical, romantic flutes with Kate Clark and Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatorium in Den Haag. In June 2017 she finished her Master of Music there.
Since 2015 Taiko Takezawa has performed with some chamber ensembles in europe and Japan.
She takes a parts of Zuyderzee with the Dutch guitarist Arlo Shore.
