Gustavo Díaz-Jerez is one of Spain’s greatest musical performers and composers. As a pianist, he has played in most Spanish concert halls and many of the world’s finest (Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Musikverein in Viena, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Festival Hall in London, Beijing University in China, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, etc). He has also been a soloist with most of Spain’s foremost orchestras (Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Orquesta de RTVE, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona and Orquesta Nacional de Cataluña, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Sinfónica de Madrid…) and outstanding orchestras outside Spain (Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Turín, Northern Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, etc) under the baton of such talented conductors as Stanislaw Skrowaczevski, Ivan Fischer, Adrian Leaper, Matthias Bamert, Lü Jia, Günther Herbig, José Ramón Encinar, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Ramón Tébar and Cristian Mandeal, to name but a few. He is also a regular guest at major festivals including the Canary Islands Music Festival, Quincena Musical Donostiarra, Granada Festival, Santander International Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, etc.

In 2010, this outstanding performer of Spanish music was awarded the Albéñiz Medal, a prize also received by Alicia de Larrocha, for his recording and dissemination of Iberia. His previous CD of this piece was recorded in 2009 and hailed as “exceptional” by critics.

His world premiere DVD recording of Albeniz’s Iberia in HD video was released on the Orpheus label in December 2015 and rapturously received by critics and the media.

Gustavo Díaz-Jerez has also won many awards in international competitions (Santander Paloma O’Shea, María Canals, Palm Beach (USA), Pilar Bayona, Premio Jaén, Viña del Mar (Chile), and others). He has also won such prestigious prizes as the Mont Blanc Prize for culture in the Canary Islands in 1991, the Tenerife Casino Prize in 1990 and the Harold Bauer Award at the Manhattan School of Music, New York.

As a composer, his works have been premiered by first-rate musicians and orchestras in Spain and abroad. In 2011, his work Ymarxa for orchestra commissioned for the 27^th Canary Islands Music festival was premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit. His first opera, La Casa imaginaria, premiered recently and was a great success. His Metaludios for piano was released on CD. In 2018 he won the Martín Chirino prize for musical composition. In 2019, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) recorded a double CD of his entire seven works for orchestra inspired by the Canary Islands, conducted by Eduardo Portal. He is also the author of the computer programme FractMus which applies A.I. to musical composition. In 2012, the album IAMUS, featuring a recording by the London Symphony Orchestra of several works stemming from his A.I. research had a huge impact on the landscape of musical creation.

Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, was a pupil of Jesús Ángel Rodríguez Martín at the Superior Music Conservatory in his home town, and he subsequently studied under Salomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music, where he also studied composition with Giampaolo Bracali and Ludmila Ulehla.

He is also an academic correspondent of the Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes de San Miguel Arcángel, and since 2002 he has taught the piano at Musikene, the Basque Country Superior Music Conservatory.