Alvar Rubio Comino - Piano
He is born in Saragossa where realizes brilliantly his studies of piano with Pilar Armijo Castro and Ignacio Marín Bocanegra in the Conservatoria of his natal city being rewarded with three Extraordinary Prizes and an Honorific Mention.
He continues his studies in L'Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris in the class of the eminent pianist Ramzi Yassa and in 1996 he is admitted into the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels into Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden’s class , pupil of the great spanish teacher Eduardo del Pueyo, entering in touch with the pedagogy of this brilliant Aragonese pianist ,heir of Marie Jaëll’s researches.
He holds the Premier Prix Solfege, Premier Prix Chamber music, Premier Prix Piano, Premier Prix Music History and Diplôme Superieur of Piano. Likewise, he studies in the Musical Center Eduardo del Pueyo with his Teacher Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden.
He has been a scholarship holder for the State Department, the Government of Aragon, Ibercaja, the University of Almeria, International Courses Manuel of Falla and the government of the French-speaking Community of Belgium.
Returning to Spain he realizes a Postdegree in the Conservatoire of the Liceo Barcelona under Stanislav Potchekin and he initiates conducting studies under Juan Jose Olives Palenzuela.
He founds L'Orquestra de Cambra of the Vall d'en Bas, he directs the Summer festival of the Vall d'en Bas and he is President of Young Musicians Foundation of Saragossa , organizing, among others, a cycle of concerts to commemorate the Centenary of the birth of the Master Eduardo del Pueyo.
Along his career he receives advices from great pianists and pedagogues as diverse as Oxana Yablonskaya,Lazar Berman, Alicia de Larrocha,Lev Naumov, Gery Mouttier , Dimitri Bashkirov, Brigite Engerer,Levente Kende, Almudena Cano and Jose Luis Gonzalez Uriol.
He is heir of the musical legacy of the eminent Spanish pianist Pilar Bayona thanks to the teaching of Pilar Armijo and the long and affectionate conversations with Trinidad Castillo at the end of her life .
He has been always Interested in the pedagogy of the Master Eduardo del Pueyo, he is present at courses, classes and seminars of relevant pupils of this one that they have followed lavishing his educations as,like Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden Teresa Escudero, Patricia Montero, J.José Pérez Torrecillas, André de Groote, Burkard Spinnler, Claudine Orloff, and Evelyne Brancart.
From 2004 he got a Piano teacher positon , serving in the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragon and nowadays at the Professional Conservatoire of Tarazona.
He is Director of the International Courses Eduardo del Pueyo de Tarazona and Artistic director of the Cycle of Classic of Veruela's Monastery.