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Iván Fernández

Born in Vigo in 1984, Iván Fernández started studying music with Rita Ivaskeviciute.

He graduated in Piano Performance at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya with Rafael Salinas (PhD). He was given a Mention of Honor for his research project ‘Recursos expresivos en las últimas sonatas de Beethoven’ (Expression Resources in Beethoven's Last Sonatas), performing the sonatas op. 109, Op 110 and op. 111 by the composer. In 2015, he finished his Master's Degree at the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow with Vera B. Nosina, honored artist from Russia, and was awarded the Red Diploma (cum laude).

In 2013, he won first prize and received an award for Best Performance of Russian Music at the 14th International Classical Music Competition in Ruza (Russia). In 2009, he was a finalist at the Llíria Young Performer's International Competition, where he was awarded a scholarship in excellence from the Anna Riera Foundation.

His first recording with works by R. Schumann and A. Gaos was released in 2022.

He has received classes and masterclasses from Leonid N. Sintsev, Pavel Dombrovsky, Lidya Reznikova, Tatiana Tarnavskaya, Jarosław Drzewiecki, Arcadi Volodos, Douglas Humpherys, Alba Ventura, Rasa Biveiniene, Ramon Coll, Salvador Mas, Michal Drewnowski, Meira Farkas, Natalia Posnova, Ingrid Sotolarova, Yuri Bogdanov, Christian Zacharias, Luis Pipa, Josep Colom, Cuartet Canals and Leonel Morales, among others.