Francisco Alvarez made his orchestral debut at the age of 18 performing Beethoven´s 1st Piano Concerto at the Sundome in Phoenix.

Mr. Alvarez is renowned for his musical virtuosity and refined pianism and perhaps best recognized for his interest in exploring Spanish and South American music even though he is equally at home with the standard repertoire.

His stage presence and his interpretations of this repertoire have received high acclaim from critics and audiences. His extensive concert career has taken him to the most important halls of Spain, United States, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Venezuela and the Caribbean countries as well as Italy, Germany, and Slovakia.

He has made several live studio recordings for the National Radio Station of Spain RNE some of which are to be the only source on little-known Latin American repertoire.

Recently Mr. Alvarez has been invited by the prestigious March Foundation of Madrid to perform in the series “El piano iberoamericano”, where he performed for the first time in Madrid the Third Piano Sonata by Alberto Ginastera among other lesser-known music of composers from Venezuela, Perú, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina. He has been invited by the Granada’s Town Hall to perform at the III Foro de Patrimonio. In 1993 he inaugurated the Concert Series of Las Capitulaciones de Santa Fe at the Instituto de América in Santa Fe with a recital devoted entirely to Hispanic music. In 1994 Mr. Alvarez was a co-founder of the Philharmonic Society of Granada and opened the concert series of that season. He has performed at the Dallas Museum of Art within the Spanish celebrations on the 5th Centennial of America's Discovery and has performed for the Spanish Ambassador in the United States.

As well, Mr. Alvarez has been invited to perform by prestigious Music Festivals as the International Music and Dance Festival of Granada and The Sedona Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. Alvarez has made Spanish and Latinamerican repertoire and style known abroad through numerous Master Classes workshops, and concerts throughout his career in schools in The United States, Latin America, Spain and Central Europe. He has been performing this type of repertoire regularly since 1992 for the Spanish School of Middlebury College in Vermont within the Languages Summer Program where he also teaches courses on Spanish and Latinamerican Music and Culture.

He has performed as soloist with NAU Symphony, Westmoreland Symphony, Granada’s Conservatory Band, and has collaborated with other ensembles as the Dallas Wind Symphony, Canton Symphony, Coro “Ciudad de la Alhambra” among others.

Mr. Alvarez is a graduate from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of his native Madrid, where he joined Guillermo Gonzalez’s studio. He also holds a Bachelor Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied under the supervision of Elizabeth Pastor, and obtained a Master Degree from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas where he studied with the Spanish Maestro Joaquín Achúcarro. His other influential teacher abroad is Russian pianist Boris Bloch with whom he studied at the Folkwand Hochshule in Essen, Germany.