Paulo Álvares completes tonight’s trio at the LOFT

Born in Belo Horizonte, Paulo Álvares studied the piano under Caio Pagano at the University of São Paulo, and in Texas under Steven de Groote. From 1988 to 1990, thanks to a DAAD grant, he studied under Aloys Kontarsky in Köln, and after winning the Kranichsteiner music prize at the Darmstadt international course for new music in July 1990, he explored the relationship between the piano and live electronics at the IRCAM in Paris. Paulo Álvares devotes himself to new music, improvised music and to both the classical and 20th century repertoires. Recently Álvarez has been working regularly as a pianist with the Radio Orchestra of West German Radio, the Ensemble Noamnesia in Chicago, the Het Spectral Ensemble in Ghent and the Musikfabrik in Düsseldorf. Handily for us, Paulo’s many recordings encompass all of Mauricio Kagel’s keyboard music!