Pedro Iturralde Ochoa (13 July 1929 – 1 November 2020) was a Spanish jazz saxophonist, teacher and composer.

[2] He began his musical studies with his father and performed in his first professional engagements on saxophone at age eleven.

He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where he studied clarinet, piano, and harmony.

He appeared in Spain and abroad as a soloist with the Spanish National Orchestra under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sergiu Celibidache, Igor Markevitch, and others.

He dedicated the present version of the work, orchestrated by his brother Javier, to a friend, saxophonist Theodore Kerkezos.