Biography

Luis Álvarez Cabado is an award-winning film composer, music producer and arranger. Born in Lugo, Galicia, in 1996, he began learning piano at the age of 6 in his hometown. After several years of music learning, he went on to graduate in Music Composition in 2018 in A Coruña.

During his years of formal training he began to experiment creating his own style, crafting a mix between minimal piano and ambient textures, that led to him collaborating with various film directors over the recent years, such as Nacho Ozores and Jaime Olías, both of whom have won several awards and whose short-films have been played in major film festivals, such as the Stockholm Film Festival and New York’s Berkshire Film Festival.

His first solo works were published back in 2015 on the Soundcloud platform, but were later compiled in his first official release Lost Clouds (2017) alongside new pieces and remasters. This first EP was followed by a trajectory of self-published singles until his EP Meanwhile (2019) was published under the NY-based label Sonder House, with which he would later release several more piano-solo tracks and form a strong bond.

In 2020, Luis Álvarez joined forces with Memoir Music (Chillhop) to release his track Hindsight, which is included in the Coastal Wander compilation. Later that year, his EP The Journey -where he focused on an more ambient aesthetic- was published under Sonder House. Later that year, he released Cloud Postcards, which earned over 9 million streams on Spotify alone.

He kept developing his own personal signature in 2021, writing the soundtrack for the award-winning and Goya nominee short film Chaval and being commissioned to compose the soundtrack for the documentary A Cero.5, amongst many other independent projects and releases.

His soundtracks have been listened to in festivals all around the world, including New York Berkshire Festival, London Portobello Film Festival, Festival de Cine de Cans, Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca, Dublin International Short Film Festival and Tirana Film Festival amongst many others.

Currently, Luis is based in Madrid, where he continues to develop his work as an audiovisual composer and artist, having recently graduated from the Royal College of Music in London where he studied a Masters Degree in Composition for Screen.