Clélia Iruzun

Pianist Clélia Iruzun has had an internationally significant career, often performing contemporary Brazilian works as well as pieces from the Romantic mainstream. She is based in Britain but returns to Brazil several times yearly for performances. Iruzun was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1963. She took up the piano at four, playing by ear, and by seven, she was studying with local teachers, entering competitions, and winning prizes. Iruzun enrolled at the University of Rio de Janeiro School of Music at nine, studying with Arnaldo Cohen and Anna Carolina Pereira da Silva. She attr...