Antonio Iturrioz was born in Cuba and came to the United States in 1962. He played his first concert at 9, and at age 15 made his orchestral debut playing the Liszt First Piano Concerto. His teachers include his father, Pablo Iturrioz, Francisco de Hoyos (a pupil of Gyorgi Sandor), Bernardo Segall, who studied with Alexander Siloti (a pupil of Liszt), Aube Tzerko, and Julian White.

He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Young Musicians Foundation Tushinsky Memorial Scholarship Award and the Dewars Young Artists Award. Mr. Iturrioz has taken master classes with Byron Janis, and in 1973 he was one of ten young pianists selected nationwide by Andre Watts to participate in the Andre Watts Piano Seminars at Tanglewood.

Mr. Iturrioz has an extensive repertoire that ranges from Scarlatti to present day composers and plays the complete piano works of Robert Schumann. He continues to perform in the United States and Europe. He has two other CD’s available: "A Waterfall of Romance", featuring Bellini’s "Norma" arranged by Liszt, and "The Davidsbundler, Op. 6" by Schumann.

An injury to his right hand interrupted his career for several years during which time he developed a formidable repertoire of left hand piano music, including the complete Chopin-Godowsky transcriptions. This ultimately lead to his first-of-its-kind educational film,
The Art of the Left Hand: A Brief History of Left Hand Piano Music, which has been shown on PBS, is distributed by KJOS and is available here.

Pianist Jon Nakamatsu said of the film, “Great for musicians and non-musicians alike.”