About
“The ultimate goal is to tell something to the audience that will leave them different that they were, but not through any means, through the quality of your music making, your honesty and your generosity to “give” everything you have to your audience.”
Pedro López Salas’s father wanted him to be a soccer player. The Albacete youth enjoyed the sport, but realized he didn’t have the passion to pursue it seriously. At the same time, he watched the Tom & Jerry cartoons and was fascinated with the performances of the cat and the act of playing the piano. When he was 9, he asked his parents to switch him to from soccer to piano lessons. After one week at music school, Pedro decided he wanted to be a professional pianist. He would go on to earn a master’s and artist diploma at the Royal College of Music under Norma Fisher and Vanessa Latarche, and is now studying with 2001 Cliburn Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid.
Pedro has been awarded more than 40 prizes at national and international piano competitions across Europe, including second prize at the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He’s also traversed the continent for concert engagements, with highlights including the Pomeranian Symphony Orchestra, Chopin and His Europe Festival, and Rubinstein Festival of Łódź (Poland); the orchestras of Galicia, Castilla y León, València, and Sevilla (Spain); and in music capitals Tivoli, Salzburg, Milan, and Venice. He calls performing a concert “some sort of magic, unexplainable moment,” noting that you learn a lot about yourself in the process. “I can feel that I am in a sort of trance moment in which I am expressing my whole emotional world to the audience, and I can feel they are involved in that.”