Fabián dos Rios

Fabián dos Rios (born 1994) is a Spanish-German book composer, pianist, illustrator & writer raised in the Valencian Community, Spain. He currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Fabián’s debut compositions were released in March 2019 under the name Primer Acto. By the end of the year, Fabian had won Kunst gegen Bares in Cologne, Germany, three consecutive times – a popular art live-performance show conceived and directed by Gerd Buurmann which is held in over 40 cities in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain. 
His first music video, Captain Rasca, a homage to the environment and how we should be protecting it, was released on 22 July 2021. https://www.submithub.com/artist/fabian-dos-rios
== Early Life ==
Fabián dos Rios was born in Denia, on the eastern coast of Spain, and raised along the Mediterranean coast. 
Dos Rios was interested in and skilled at drawing from an early age. He would regularly visit his great uncle Dieter Drewes, a circus enthusiast who created and defined the design of the circus Jonny Caselly in Germany. 
At the age of six, Fabián moved with his family to Málaga, in Andalucia. In 2004, dos Rios moved to Cologne, Germany, with his family. His musical knowledge began with intense piano lessons from chorus director and conductor, Dirk Richartz. 
After two years of taking lessons, he stopped because he disliked the “old school” discipline. The academic world of music exhausted him and he found it very restrictive, so set off on his own. Nevertheless, he never stopped playing the piano. On the contrary, he was dedicated to teaching himself what he did not yet know and his passion for digging into memories awakened new feelings that he transformed into art:
“It was when I moved to Germany and lost all my vocabulary that I escaped behind the piano keys. Ever since music has been my first language.”
–Fabián dos Rios at his first concert in the Artheater, directed by Gerd Buurmann. 
After finishing high school in 2013, Fabián moved to Sevenoaks, South-East of London, and volunteered at the Valence School for the British Red Cross. Here, he would assist young people with special needs in music and art classes. Here he slowly discovered a fondness for improvising and composing. He’d persistently walk to Westerham’s forlorn church that possessed an old grand piano and spend many hours during the evenings fascinated by the sounds in this spatiality. 
In 2018, while travelling in Buenos Aires, Fabián played on the piano his great uncle had been playing 50 years before, accompanied by his grandfather, who had, at the time, been the lead violinist for the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1960s. 
== Art ==
Fabián dos Rios’ nostalgic music and compositional techniques combine elements of Classical and Electronic music. He makes use of Leitmotifs based on novels to build themes. Fabián’s delicate but deeply emotional style is deceptively simple to recognize but difficult to catalogue, since his personality and thus his music have been shaped by a wide variety of cultural influences ranging from Latin America to Australia and from Spain to the United Kingdom. 
The music of Fabián dos Rios is often associated with the Contemporary classical music|contemporary classical styles of Philip Glass, Jean-Michel Blais, Jesse Brown and Yann Tiersen, although his distinctive mediterranean melodies move him far off from these artists. 
His works are notable for the musical interpretation of profound written pieces such as The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho or Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind|A Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari. 
== Discography ==
Singles
* Captain Rasca (2021)
Studio albums
* A Brief History of Earth (2020) 
* The Alchemist (2021) 
EPs
* Primer Acto (2019)
* Segundo Acto (2019)
* Tercer Acto (2019)
Category:1994 births
Category:Spanish composers
Category:Spanish pianists
Category:Spanish illustrators
Category:Spanish writers