Salvador Sánchez

Salvador Sanchez is a versatile pianist and composer.

He performs within a wide range of repertoires, styles, and genres. I like to challenge myself as a pianist and as a composer. My priority as a musician is to blur the lines between "classical" and "contemporary" and bring both to new audiences.

As a performer, he likes to play repertoires from different eras of music, trying to create an immersive experience with the audience, and like to create a relaxed atmosphere at concerts by interacting with the audience.

As a composer, he likes to experiment with many different sounds and genres, from punk, rock, electronic, or flamenco music to orchestral music. My experimental project “Volk” allows me to develop as a musician beyond the limitations of classical music, introducing me to electronic music and dance circuits.

As a pianist, Salvador has had the privilege of playing in some of the best venues in Spain and the UK. In September 2021, I performed Brahms Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in the Provincial Auditorium of León to more than 600 people, achieving a recognized success with the public and critics.

A few months earlier performed the entire work “Goyescas: Los majos enamorados” by Enrique Granados, at the Bluthnër Piano Center in London, under the patronage of The Keyboard Charitable Trust. I performed the same repertoire at the "Juan Gil-Albert" Cultural Institute in Alicante and the Sala Eutherpe in León, Spain.

Under the aegis of The Keyboard Charitable Trust, I will partially perform Las Goyescas along with other works at the British Institute in Florence, Italy on June 30, 2022.

As a piano player, have received various awards. Thus, In 2019, won the renowned Edinburgh Competition Festival by performing Ravel's Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall. In 2018, I was the winner of the "Director's Recital Prize" organized by St. Mary's Music School in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, where he performed a program that included pieces by Scarlatti, Britten, and Chopin. Finally, in 2015, I was awarded the Second Prize in the prestigious “Jacinto Guerrero” contest in Toledo, Spain

Composition is part of my way of understanding music as a whole.

Thus, I have composed different contemporary pieces within the classical canons, among others: a 45-minute work for Great Orchestra and Choir; a 12-minute piece for Solo Viola; a short work for Voice, Clarinet, Harp and Double Bass that was premiered by the “Hermes Experiment” Group at the Royal College of Music and a 17-minute work for Accordion and Piano, commissioned by accordionist Sofía Ros.

In 2020 I participated in the www.treephonia.com project to accompany some trees with music in Kensington Gardens, London, a project promoted by the Royal College of Music.