Awarded with the Orpheus Classical Music Award (2019) and the Melómano de Oro (2019) for his first album project MUSICAL ZODIAC (Orpheus Classical 2018), Fabio Álvarez has been defined by critics as "a brilliant, impressive and sensitive pianist" (Catalan Musical Magazine 2019).

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Trained in the USA in Manhattan School of Music from New York, Fabio obtained his Master of Music with the highest qualification under the tutelage of the renowned pianist and pedagogue Philip Kawin, having previously obtained his Degree in Performance in Musikene, Higher Conservatory of Music of the Basque Country with teachers Ricardo Requejo and Emmanuel Ferrer-Lalöe.

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After having worked personally with the composer George Crumb (1929 – 2022), with whom he prepared his first recording project and who defined Fabio as “a pianist with excellent technique and artistic vision”, in 2022 he releases his second solo album MAD RUSH - Philip Glass from the hand of the renowned record label IBS Classical, obtaining magnificent reviews in national and international specialized media such as the 5 stars that Ritmo Magazine, Melómano Magazine and SCHERZO gave him, describing Fabio as a pianist of “interpretations of precise execution, powerful and reflective, overflowing with emotion” (Revista Melómano 2023), obtaining the  nominated as a finalist for the 10th Martín Códax Music Awards in 2023.

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Fabio has played in some of the most prestigious international venues such as the Carnegie Hall (New York), the Juan March Foundation (Madrid), the Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada) or the Campos Elíseos Theater (Bilbao) or the American International Institute (Madrid), being also selected to participate in festivals such as the XVI International Pórtico do Paraíso Festival, the NAK Festival of Contemporary Music of Navarra, III Festival of Women in Music, XII and XIV Teresa Berganza Performers Series.

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Fabio has received advice from distinguished pianists and pedagogues, among them: Ivo Pogorelich, Eldar Nebolsin, Imre Rohman, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Josep Colom, Marta Zabaleta, Jose Ramón Méndez, James Giles, Nino Kereselidze, Gustavo Díaz Jerez, Mariana Gurkova , Jean-Philippe Guillo, Aurélie Forre, María Jesús Crespo, María Teresa Pérez and Alexander Kandelaki, among others.

 

Fabio currently resides in Madrid, where he combines his concert activity and concert tours with his teaching activity."