Miguel Álvarez-Fernández

Photo: Juan Carlos Quindós

Miguel Álvarez-Fernández (Madrid, 1979) began his piano and composition studies at the San Lorenzo de El Escorial conservatory. Attracted from an early age by electro-acoustic creation, he continued his training in other institutions, both Spanish. Between 2002 and 2005 he enjoyed a scholarship as a composer at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where he completed the project “Las plagas”, together with the poet Sandra Santana, presented in 2003 in the auditorium of the Reina Sofia Museum. In 2005 he moved to Berlin, where, together with the designer Asia Piascik and the engineer Stefan Kersten, he founded the DissoNoiSex trio, which presented his interactive sound installations in different cities in Germany, Poland, Spain, Denmark and the United States. In 2010, at the Villa Elisabeth in Berlin, he premiered “Ruinas”, with the Rivera Duo, Stefan Kersten, Carlos Chacón del Pino and Isaac Diego. That same year, having returned to Spain, he presented “Representación2” at the Madrid National Music Auditorium, a work about which a book made up of essays by different authors is currently being published.

In 2011 he received the IV Cura Castillejo Award from Llorenç Barber. In 2012, within the Berlin FASE Festival, he premiered “La depresión en España”, a chamber opera based on texts by Fernando Millán. A few months later, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid he presented “En la Sala María Zambrano, el 14 de abril de 2012”. In 2014, his sound installation “Tiempos” was shown within the Audiópolis season of CentroCentro (Madrid), and was exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in New York in 2016.

In parallel to his work as a sound artist, since 2008 Miguel Álvarez-Fernández has directed and presented the weekly programme “Ars Sonora” on Radio Clásica. In 2015, in collaboration with Luis Deltell, he directed the documentary feature “No escribiré arte con mayúscula” (“I will not write art with a capital A”), dedicated to Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. In 2019 he collaborated with Israel Galván in the dramaturgy and script of the play “Israel & Israel”, presented in Yamaguchi (Japan) and Paris. In 2020 he published the book “Luis de Pablo: Inventario”, which is a compilation of the conversations held by the two composers over recent years.