Nicanor Zabaleta has been played on NTS shows including In Focus, with Sonate Pour Harpe first played on 24 March 2023.

(January 7, 1907–June 16, 1993) was a Spanish world-class virtuoso and populariser of the harp.

Zabaleta was born in San Sebastián, Spain, on January 7, 1907. In 1914 his father, an amateur musician, bought him a harp in antique shop. He soon began taking lessons from Vincenta Tormo de Calvo (Madrid Conservatory faculty) and Luisa Menarguez. In 1925 he began studies in Paris, where his teachers were Marcel Tournier and Jacqueline Borot. In 1926, in Paris, he made his own official concert debut. Then he…