Born in Bilbao, Idoia Bengoa trained on historical bassoons with Adrian Rovátkay in Berlin and David Sattler, principal bassoonist with the OPL, and also took classes with Javier Zafra, Rhoda Patrick and Jennifer Harris. She obtained her diploma in recorder with Thomas Kügler at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, after training with Agostino Cirillo and Anna Margules.
Among other ensembles, she has played with the Lautten Compagney, La Dolcezza, La Banda, Ad Libitum, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Trondheim Barokk, Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble, Concerto Brandenburg, Göttinger Barockorchester, Ensemble Una Volta, SaarLorLux Ensemble, Glossarium, Ad Libitum, Ensemble de la Chapelle Saint Marc and Le Tendre Amour. She is also a founding member of the ensembles Quatricinia and Cultus Harmonicus.
Interested in combining literature and music, Idoia conceived and performed with the Quatricinia ensemble the musical project for children Die Blechgeschichte, on the history of brass instruments, performed at the Trombucco Festival in Dudelange (Luxembourg), as well as La Historia del Cautivo, based on Miguel de Cervantes' L'Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, with the participation of actors from the Theatrum company and under the direction of May Sánchez, which was performed at the Neimënster cultural centre in Luxembourg City and was selected for the official programme of the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' death.
She has also produced different radio plays with Josy Peschon for fce-lu.com:
Traum#Sommer#Nacht
Version for children of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with selected pieces from Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen.
Recoder consort Titania performs the Traum#Sommer#Nacht on stage, lately for the Rencontres Musicales de la Vallée de l'Alzette (RMVA).
Aus dem Leben einer Abenteurerin
Based on the autobiography of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1600, at the age of 15, ran away from a convent in San Sebastián and, disguised as a man, took part in the conquest of Chile, a story accompanied mainly by music by Basque composers of the time.
Simplicissimusikalien
Recounts the lives of composers Matthias Weckmann, Philippe van Wichel and Johann Jakob Froberger, presenting works by these composers played by Quatricinia in their project Weckmann & van Wichel: Alta Capella Sonatas after the Peace of Westphalia, as well as excerpts from Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus. Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus von Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. Mit Musik aus Quatricinias Projekt Weckmann & van Wichel: Stadtpfeifersonaten nach dem Westfälischen Frieden.
