Francisco Alvarez Diaz

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Francisco Álvarez Díaz, from Madrid, Spain, is a professor of piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Granada, Spain. His professional training includes studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany. He made his orchestral debut in 1984 at the Sundome in Phoenix, since then he has specialized in Spanish and Latin American music, which has presented in concert at Middlebury College regularly for the past fifteen years. He has performed as a soloist in major halls in Spain, the United States, South America and Europe and has recorded unusual Hispanic music for the National Radio of Spain. He has been invited by the prestigious March Foundation of Madrid to perform in the series «El piano Iberoamericano»; has toured South America performing Spanish music, and has played for the Spanish Ambassador in the United States. He has conducted numerous piano Master Classes in Spain and abroad, as well as lectures and concerts throughout the United States on Spanish repertoire and historical matters. Paco is a member of the University of Granada’s Choir and will be in charge of the Spanish School’s choir this summer, as he was in 2007.

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Francisco Alvarez Diaz