Álvaro Rodríguez Cabezas is a musician dedicated to transmitting a message through the music he performs, focusing on style, aesthetics, rhetoric and emotions. From his point of view, it is essential to know and understand the music of past centuries in order to understand better the music of later periods. In this way, he makes adaptations of baroque and classical music, always trying to give a chance to the saxophone as a versatile instrument capable of offering a new perspective. He is also very interested in the acoustic and sound possibilities of the saxophone in contemporary music, developing new techniques expanded with electronics and current innovations.
His training began at the "Maestro Gombau" music school in Getafe, in the saxophone speciality, under the supervision of David Ruano and Alfredo Carlavilla. Later, he was accepted at the “Professional Conservatory of Getafe” and continued his studies with the teacher Carmen Carrasco, with whom he finished his studies with the highest qualifications, obtaining the End of Grade Prize for Professional Music Education. He later entered at the “Centro Superior Katarina Gurska”, in Madrid with Professor Pedro Pablo Cámara, where he finished his bachelor's degree with the highest marks. He decided to start a new stage in Basel, Switzerland, where he has studied the Master of Arts and Musical Performance at the prestigious “Hochschule für Musik-Musik Akademie Basel" with Marcus Weiss, with whom he has continued his training during the last year. This year he is doing postgraduate studies in musical performance and chamber music with his trio "A-Delta Trio" with professors Anton Kernjak and Marcus Weiss himself.
Throughout his career he has received several awards such as: First Prize, Musikwettbewerb Dienemann Stiftung, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2024; Schlusskonzerte 2023 Hochschule für Musik; CSKG Soloists Award; CSKG Foundation Artistic Mention Scholarship; Getafe Music Band Soloists Award; Extraordinary Music Prize of the Community of Madrid; End of Degree Award in Professional Teaching from the Getafe Professional Conservatory of Music. He has also been a finalist in the latest edition of the prestigious Juventudes Musicales de España competition in the woodwind category.
Álvaro Rodríguez Cabezas has participated on several occasions as a soloist with the Banda Municipal de Música de Getafe, the CSKG Orchestra and the prestigious Sinfonieorchester Basel. He is also an active member of the A-Delta Trio and the ensemble ‘Prochain Arrêt’, with whom he has recently recorded an album with music entirely by Mozart, which has received in September 2023 the "Melómano de Oro" award from the Spanish music magazine "Melómano".
Álvaro has been constantly interested in having a complete training by receiving masterclasses from musicians and referents in the world of music and saxophone such as: Marie-Bernadette Charrier, Miguel Ángel Lorente, Vincent David, Ángel Soria, Yaron Deutsch, Sarah Maria Sun, Rainer Schmidt, Felix Lindermaier, Cibrán Sierra, Leila Schayegh, Anton Kernjak, Anna Gebert, Sergio Azzolini, Claudio Martínez and Quartet Casals.
He has participated in many important national and international festivals such as the “Classic Winds” in Hamburg and the “Facyl” festival in Salamanca, among others. He has also collaborated with the Spanish Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert held at the National Auditorium in Madrid.