Our first show, Txalaparta Hutsa, offers an intimate and surprising musical journey built around a single instrument: the txalaparta. With more than 200 performances and excellent reviews, it has become a close, educational, and moving experience where the audience learns and enjoys at the same time.
Today, we continue to expand our horizons with multidisciplinary projects such as Urbasa (contemporary circus), Baratzean (music), HUTSUN + JEL Trio (jazz/world music), Mielotxin + HUTSUN (folk), and Bodas de Sangre (theatre). We have also taken part in soundtracks, documentaries, stage projects, and numerous artistic collaborations.
Our commitment to the txalaparta goes beyond the stage: we research, teach, and work for its evolution.
Among our milestones are the organization of the 1st World Txalaparta Congress (2015), the development of the first txalaparta using physical modeling synthesis, and our involvement in founding the Txalapartaris Association.
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HUTSUN are
Mikel Urrutia:
He has been playing txalaparta since
2000. He was a member of the group
JOTTAKUN, with whom
heperformed for more than ten years
throughout Navarre, and between
2003 and 2005 he collaborated with
the dance and percussion company ALKORA.
A
self-taught musician from
Pamplona, he has explored other
percussion instruments such ascongas, batucada, and African djembe.
He was runner-up in the Young Artists
Meeting organized by the Government of Navarre and has
performed internationally in Ireland, Palestine, Bulgaria, and London.
Anai Gambra Uriz
He began
playing txalaparta in
2003 in Pamplona and soon after
took part in concerts and a tour in
Ireland with JOTTAKUN.
After moving to Lleida, he
founded the group TXALA2, with
which he gave numerous concerts
and launched a txalaparta
school, contributing to the
dissemination of
the instrument.
Also self-taught and from
Pamplona, he plays flute and
alboka in addition to txalaparta.
Before
dedicating himself fully to music, he was part of the
dance groups Amaiur and Mikelats (1995–2003).
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In Hutsun, we continue to explore new sound languages,
the limits of the txalaparta, and our own creative boundaries,alwaysstriving to care for what we love the most — the Txalaparta.