Luis López

Luis López, born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1996, studied piano at the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canaries. His piano training continued with Piotr Szychowski, and he studied chamber music with Michal Francuz at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland, where he earned an MA with Distinction. López has attended masterclasses with acclaimed pianists such as María Joao Pires, Guillermo González, Gustavo Díaz Jerez, Iván Martín, Roberta Bambace, Wolfgang Wagenhäuser, Massimiliano Mainolfi and Teruyuki Okada. Likewise, he has performed as a solo artist in venues of distinction throughout the United States, Japan, Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Croatia, and the United Kingdom. These events have taken place in different venues, including Denki Bunka Kaikan Hall, Meguro Persimmon Hall in Tokyo, Hachinohe Concert Hall, Palazzo Taffini (Italy), Aula Nova (Poznań, Poland), Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania), the University of Split (Croatia), and others. He has also participated in music festivals such as the Sunday Concert Recitals in Manhattan, New York; the 8^th Halina Czerny-Stefańska Memorial in Japan; the European Music Festival in Hagen, Germany; the Bechstein Piano Recital Series in the United Kingdom; and the Festival Pianistico di Primavera in Cuneo, Italy. Throughout his career, López has received multiple international accolades and acknowledgements, including a recent nomination to the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album.