Alejandro Espina
Biography
Alejandro Espina was born in 2002 in Valencia. At the age of eight, he was chosen to join the Escolanía de Valencia, where he began to develop his musical training.
During this stage, he began taking singing and piano lessons and also participated as a singer in various operas at the Palau de les Arts, directed by renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Ricardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Roberto Abbado, and Plácido Domingo.
Later, he continued his musical studies in piano at the Professional Conservatory of Music of Valencia with Ana María Peiró and later at the José Iturbi Conservatory with Juan Lago and Vicente Chuliá (with whom he also took conducting and composition classes), where he finished the professional degree with the highest qualifications and obtained the extraordinary prize for piano, chamber music, and the regional prize. In 2022/2023, he was selected as a student to participate in the Miami International Piano Festival, this time held in Milan, where he received classes with great pianists on the international scene, such as Jorge Luis Prats, Ilya Itin, Francesco Libetta, Dmitry Ablogin, etc.
His performances with orchestra include Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5 or Ravel’s Concerto in G, as well as different appearances as an orchestra conductor with works such as Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 or Nights in Gardens of Spain by Manuel de Falla.
In January 2023, he conducted the recording with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra of the Piano Concerto Op. 4 by the young Spanish composer José Antonio Tolosa.
He is currently studying for a bachelor’s degree at the Musical Arts Madrid high-performance school under the tutelage of pianist Josu de Solaun, who has guided his teaching for several years now.
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Well, I started my relationship with music very early. My parents would play music in the car, and I began singing naturally. Here in Spain, we have a lot of traditional music, so from childhood I was surrounded by it and sang very naturally.
At the age of eight, I entered a school famous in my city, Valencia. It is a regular school, but it has a very important choir. I sang there for six years, almost every day. It is a well-known choir here in Malcia, and we performed in many operas and took part in a wide variety of activities. Singing daily at such a young age made it feel completely natural—it became a part of who I am.
I can’t say there was a single moment when I decided to pursue music. Of course, I’ve had many important musical experiences in my life, but no exact turning point. For me, the process just happened naturally over time.
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