Awarded the Orpheus Classical Music Award (2019) and the Golden Melómano (2019) for his first recording project MUSICAL ZODIAC (Orpheus Classical 2018), Fabio Álvarez has been described by critics as a brilliant, impressive and sensitive pianist (Revista Musical Catalana 2019). Trained in the USA at the Manhattan School of Music in 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 at Musikene, the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Basque Country with the teachers Ricardo Requejo and Emmanuel Ferrer-Lalöe. After having worked personally with composers of the stature of 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 released his second solo album MAD RUSH - Philip Glass with the renowned record label IBS Classical, obtaining magnificent reviews in national and international specialized media such as the 5 stars awarded by Ritmo Magazine, Melómano Magazine and SCHERZO describing Fabio as a pianist of “precise, powerful and thoughtful performances, overflowing with emotion” (Melómano Magazine 2023), obtaining the nomination as a finalist for the 10th Martín Códax Music Awards in 2023. Fabio has played in some of the most prestigious international venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), the Juan March Foundation (Madrid), the Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada) or the Campos Theater Elíseos (Bilbao) or the Instituto Internacional Americano (Madrid), and has also been selected to participate in festivals such as the XVI International Festival Pórtico do Paraíso, the NAK Festival of Contemporary Music of Navarra, the III Festival of Women in Music, the XII and XIV Teresa Berganza Cycle of Performers. Fabio has received advice from distinguished pianists and pedagogues, including: 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. Currently Fabio resides in Madrid, where he combines his concert activity and concert tours with his teaching activity.