Rodrigo Bauzá

Violinist and composer Rodrigo Bauzá was born in Formosa (Argentina) and lives in Berlin. He has had a varied and rich performance experience, ranging from classical music to jazz, Argentinian folk, and tango. He has recently been appointed as the new concertmaster of the Metropole Orkest.

Rodrigo has played chamber music with such distinguished artists as Christian Zacharias, Caroline Widmann and Marie-Elisabeth Hecker. For several years he was a member of the Cuarteto Arriaga, giving concerts at the Wigmore Hall, at the “Folles Journées” in Nantes and Tokyo, and at the “Quincena Musical” in San Sebastián. The Cuarteto Arriaga were invited to the prestigious “Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus” by Gidon Kremer, and performed at the Palacio Real in Madrid on the famous Stradivari instruments belonging to the Spanish Royal family.

In 2013, Rodrigo founded the Cuareim Quartet. Taking the string quartet beyond its classical boundaries, the four musicians focus on contemporary jazz and improvised music and eagerly embrace a wide variety of aesthetics and styles. The Cuareim Quartet has released three CDs: “Cinco” in 2015, “Danzas” in 2020 and “A Jazz Story” in 2024, all of them featuring original arrangements and compositions.

Over the last few years, Rodrigo has focused more and more on composition, and has written pieces commissioned by the Orquesta nacional de música argentina Juan de Dios Filiberto in Buenos Aires (2017), the Tamuz Ensemble (2019), the Musikschule Hochsauerlandkreis (2020) and the Zafraan Ensemble (2021). He also composes for the ensembles in which he plays himself — the Cuareim Quartet, his duo with Santiago Arias and the Duo Bauzá/Perrino. Furthermore, he is currently working on a solo program for the viola d’amore, an instrument in which he has taken a great interest and which he has played since 2018.

An enthusiastic teacher, he has given master-classes in Spain (Berklee College of music Valencia), France, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Macedonia. He teaches violin and improvisation privately in Berlin and coaches amateur musicians in orchestra and chamber music courses since 2019. 

He studied violin in Uruguay with Jorge Risi and later with Mariana Sirbu in Leipzig, where he graduated with honours in both classical and jazz violin.