Victor Alario

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Víctor Alberto Alario Del Río Born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on December 16, 1993. He's a Colombian composer and keyboardist Italian nationalized, currently based in Vienna, Austria. He made his first studies in recognized schools and 8 months a part of it in the city of Sunrise, Fl, U.S.A., when he begins the adolescence validates the high school doing four years in the time of one and a half. Before finish the school and also at school, he began music studies with private teachers of many different areas of music and at music academies, he also attended recording studios where he learned the commercial musical system among other knowledges. After failing to have become in a skillful singer, he devoted himself only for the piano as a musical performance and ending the singing as a result of chronic luxation in the mandible. After completing basic studies of music, he aspired and traveled to Bogota in order to start the piano program at Colombia National University, but decided not to take admission test, he studied psychology at San Buenaventura University headquartered in Cartagena and philosophy at Cartagena University both careers one semester, and one semester of music at Adolfo Mejia Navarro Conservatory, a year later he repeats it and he retires again. He worked as a pianist in bar-restaurants as well in events also as music teacher in schools and as a private tutor until his 21 years insomuch as he interrupted his work because he traveled also avoiding the obligatory Colombian military service to Salzburg, Austria, where he applied to the composition program at Mozarteum University but he wasn't admitted, failing only one part of four of the examination, then he went to Vienna and he started studies in the Jazz program at Margarethe Prayner Conservatory where weeks later he retires, just after he was applying for the musicology program at Vienna University, after 1 year of preparatory courses at Vorstudienlehrgang der Wiener Universitäten didn’t continue them and travelled to St. Petersburg, Russia for one year in order to solidify his Russian studies at Политехнический Университет one semester. He came back to Vienna, continue the preparatory courses for musicology and became finally musicology student. At this time he started Dutch studies at Volkshochschule 6 months but after becoming disillusioned about how people live in the Netherlands, he does not continue this language and decides to stay permanently in Vienna. He has many recording projects especially with Beethoven, Scriabin and Scarlatti independently of his own compositions and he wants to initiate his own not-for-profit music school particularly for kids and youth with music already as a life goal. He’s also polyglot, he made courses in other 3 languages, speaking fluently Italian, English, German, his own mother tongue Spanish and a basic level of Russian. He is also member of the Vegane Gesellschaft Österreich.

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What is music to you? What does it give you?

It is everything, and it gives me the meaning

What is your music dream?

To know what music is

If you could change the world - what would you start with?

Education

Which is the most memorable song from your childhood?

And from my all life, it is Ode to Joy

Who are your favorite musical artists or bands?

Beethoven, Scriabin, Scarlatti.

What inspires you to make music?

My feeling.

What is the message you want to send with your music?

That life is an interesting mystery

How do you feel when you perform in front of an audience?

Solitaire

How do you see the musicians’ reality nowadays? What could be improved?

Could be improved more education,

What do you think of Drooble?

That it is a good hope, for musicians

What frustrates you most as a musician?

That I feel I have treasure I want to share but no one takes it

Do you support your local scene as a fan? How?

Showing respect

What qualities should a musician nowadays have in order to get their music heard by a larger audience?

The music should to all of this by it self

Share some awesome artists that we’ve never heard of.

I do not know, maybe one of my favorite Jazz pianists, Art Tatum