Born in Mexico in 1992, Itzel finished her Bachelor’s in oboe performance in 2016 and Master's in 2018 at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She has collaborated with orchestras including Radio Philharmonic Orkest Nederlands, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Amsterdam, Symphony Orchestra of Xalapa, Lucerne Festival Orchestra Academy and Orchestra of the Americas and has been has been under the baton of great conductors including Sir. Simon Rattle, Matthias Pintcher and Vasily Petrenko. In 2018 she performed the piece Extase II by Q.Chen as a soloist in Muziekgebouw aan t'ij Amsterdam under the baton of Ed Spanjaard.