Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Alfredo Ovalles is a versatile pianist and composer who has delved into various musical realms. Drawing from his classical background and his experience performing in rock and pop bands in Caracas, he perceives music as a unified entity, where boundaries blur and insights gained from one genre inform his approach to seemingly unrelated musical settings.
Alfredo is highly sought after as a soloist and chamber musician. He has played concerts with orchestras such as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdansk, Poland, and the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, among others. He has also performed at prestigious music festivals in Europe, including Wien Modern, Transart Festival in Bolzano, and the Warsaw Autumn Festival.
His programs often center on Bach and Leonard Bernstein. One of his signature performance pieces is his own solo piano rendition of Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”, which has become immensely popular with audiences. “With verve and symphonic colorfulness, Alfredo’s interpretation is delivered with full physical commitment and everything that goes with it.” (Pianist Magazine)

As a composer, Alfredo also employs those early musical influences, merging his classical music roots with rock, pop, jazz, and electronics to create his own distinctive, highly personal voice in the contemporary music scene.
Alfredo frequently performs and premieres solo and ensemble works, collaborating closely with composers such as Roberto Sierra, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, and François Sarhan.
Committed to finding non-traditional venues, one performance event took Alfredo to an abandoned submarine pier in Croatia with The Black Page Orchestra, where they performed Stockhausen’s “Mikrophonie I. “It was an inspiring, ear-opening and transformative experience.”
Alfredo’s passion for music started early. According to his father, he asked for piano lessons as a birthday gift when he turned five. Not being from a musical family, his first experience of how a piano sounded did not come from classical music but rather from an old videotape of a Queen concert that was always around their home.
Alfredo is proudly a Bösendorfer and Remic artist.