“More than an excellent pianist, he is a soloist and almost a conductor, judging by his scenic development” (Ritmo Magazine)
Born in 1997, Pedro López Salas is a Spanish pianist who is currently studying an Artist Diploma with Prof. Vanessa Latarche at the Royal College of Music of London (RCM). Previously, he finished his Masters of Performance also at the RCM with Prof. Norma Fisher, receiving First Class Honours. He was awarded with full scholarship and the title of Steinway Scholar and the Leverhulme Honorary Arts Scholarships.
He has been awarded more than 40 prizes at international and national piano competitions including First Prize at the Malta International Piano Competition; Second Prize at the International Paderewski Piano Competition of Bydgoszcz (Poland), as well as four special prizes, including the best semi-final recital; the Composers of Spain CIPCE International Piano Competition (Madrid); the Joan Chisell Schumann Prize at the RCM; and the César Franck International Piano Competition (Brussels). He also won Second Prize and four special prizes at the Ferrol International Piano Competition in Madrid.
Pedro has performed throughout Europe in prestigious concert halls such as the Lutoslawski Concert Hall of Polish Radio in Warsaw and Pomeranian Philharmonic Concert Hall of Bydgoszcz, Poland, Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht, Wiener Festsaal in Vienna, Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Miguel Delibes Concert Hall in Valladolid; Ferrol Concert Hall “Manuel de Falla” of Granada, “Teatro Circo” of Albacete (Spain); Theater of Aachen (Germany); and the Wiener Saal in Salzburg (Austria), Ischia “La Mortella” and Milan “Rocca Brivio” (Italy), among among many others. He has performed as a soloist with the OH! Orchestra of Warsaw, the “Pomeranian Hall Symphony Orchestra” of Poland, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the Orquesta de Valencia and the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.
“Three encores, standing audience and a long line of spectators lined up to congratulate the young Spanish pianist. Pedro López Salas brightened up the evening in Milan” (Cultura di Milano)
“Perfect blend of musicality, personality, and brilliantly polished technique” (La Tribuna).
“Enormous security and great capacity of the young pianist to endow Liszt’s concerto number 2 with expressiveness and poetry” (El Correo de Sevilla).
