Conductor, pianist, and composer, MANUEL TEVAR is considered one of the most versatile and internationally recognized Spanish musicians of his generation. Winner of the prestigious San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts Award in 2006, he is the only musician alongside the renowned Spanish composer Manuel de Falla to have received this honor. He received the Guerrero Foundation Award in 2008, the Amics del Liceu Award in 2009, and First Prize at the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition.
In 2008, he won the composition award from the Jacinto e Inocencio Guerrero Foundation and has recordings on Verso’s Label and Itinerant Classics. His works have been premiered in Spain, New York, Paris, London, and Belgium. He has conducted, among other, the Orquesta Filarmonica Marchigiana (Ancona, Italy), CRR Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, the Sicilian Camerata Polifónica, the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra, and the UN Youth Ensemble. As a composer, he has premiered more than 30 works in 10 countries.
Tevar has participated in seven recording projects, two as a composer, one as a conductor, and four as a pianist with his piano duo Iberian & Klavier. His wide and varied repertoire ranges from Renaissance to contemporary music, including world premieres. He has recorded for Spanish television and radio, French radio, and the Austrian Radio Channel in Vienna. Always to great critical and public acclaim, he has given piano recitals and has been a soloist with orchestras in prestigious concert halls and festivals in New York (Carnegie Hall), Indianapolis, London, Paris, Rudolfinum in Prague, in Florence, Lisbon, Berlin, and elsewhere, as well as in many venues in Spain. Tévar is regularly invited to give master classes at American universities, festivals, and music schools, as well as to serve on the jury of prestigious competitions in composition, chamber music, and piano, such as the Jean Françaix Competition in Paris.
Manuel Tévar has been a tenured professor at the Teresa Berganza Conservatory of Music in Madrid since 2004. He is artistic director of the Atlantida Chamber Orchestra and of several international music festivals in Spain. Following his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in December 2024, he has engagements in Europe, Asia, and North and South America in the coming months, including debuts with the Strauss Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kazakhstan Symphony Orchestra, and the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Spanish musicologist Carlos Martínez Gil highlights his distinctive sound, saying that the result of his work reaches both the tangible and intangible dimensions of music.