Lorenzo Alvaro is a Melbourne-based composer, guitarist and arranger. He trained as an electric guitar performance major at Box Hill TAFE, studying composition with Lachlan Wilson and Tomasz Spiewak, then completed a Bachelor of Teaching at the University of Melbourne, where he went on to study composition with Brenton Broadstock and Stuart Greenbaum. As a performer he has worked with theatre companies, the Ross Irwin Big Band and the jazz group Mo’Joe, and has shared the stage with international artists including Randy Brecker, Allen Vizzutti, Jim Pugh, Eijiro Nakagawa and Bill Broughton. A finalist in the Sibelius Student and Australian Guitar composition competitions, Alvaro was named a winner of the 2008-09 Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers program, which led to a world premiere in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Metropolis series in 2009. He is a represented artist of the Australian Music Centre.
