Cuban-born pianist Ahmed Alom is a classically trained pianist who since his arrival to New York City, has become one of the leading young figures in piano performance in the United States. His versatility among contrasting styles of music have led him to collaborate regularly with Philippe Quint, Steve Hackman, Teddy Abrams, Paquito D’Rivera (Grammy Winner), Pedrito Martinez, among others.

He is a member of the LatinGrammy Winner Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet, and a member of the music ensemble for the newly premiered ballet “Doña Peron”, written by composer Peter Salem and commissioned by Ballet Hispanico.

His debut album EXILIO, set to be released in June 2023 under Irreverence Music Group, where he performs a selection of works by Luis A. Calvo, Ignacio Cervantes, Manuel de Falla, and New York based composer Julian de la Chica.

Mr. Alom has performed as a soloist with orchestras in Spain, Cuba, Mexico and the United States, performing works ranging from Beethoven to Chopin and Gershwin. In 2023 he will perform “No Man’s Land”, a recital featuring virtuoso violinist Ruben Rengel, coached and curated by Jaime Laredo, at the Linton Chamber Music Festival, including works by Poulenc, Kapustin and traditional folk Latin American Music.

This year, Mr. Alom was part of the premiere of “Tentacion”, a Cuban timba style concerto for 8-piece band and orchestra, in collaboration with People of Earth collective, Musical America’s conductor of the year Teddy Abrams, and MacArthur fellow Dafnis Prieto. The work was presented with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra, L.A Philharmonic and Britt Festival Orchestra.

Aside of winning of the First Prize at the XXI Xalapa Piano Competition and the National Chamber Music Competition, both in Mexico, the Maria Clara Cullell Piano Competition in Costa Rica and the UNEAC Piano Competition in Havana, Ahmed also won prizes at the Yamaha sponsored Cuevas International Piano Competition in Mexico, the Bradshaw and Buono Competition and the Slatkin/Composers Competition at Manhattan School of Music,both in New York. Also in this city, he was a finalist of the 66th Chopin Kosciuszko Foundation Competition, recipient of the Munz Foundation Competition, and 1st Prize at the Young Musicians Competition.

As a Jazz and Latin Jazz pianist, he has appeared in festivals in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Costa Rica and Cuba, and he has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the MSM Afro Cuban Jazz Band, ExitZero Jazz Festival and Jazz Night in America.

He has collaborated on several albums: “Impulso Tanguero” with the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet, “And I Love Her” by Steve Hackman and” Doña Peron” by Peter Salem alongside Grammy Winner bandoneonist Hector del Curto. As a producer, he has worked on albums by producer and hip-hop artist GARO and singer Maria Bacardi.

Throughout his career, Ahmed was coached in Cuba, by Beatriz Olivera, Hortensia Upmann, Leonardo Gell, Ninowska Fernandez and Svetlana Logounova.

He pursued his classical piano performance studies at the Manhattan School of Music, as a scholarship student of the Viola B. Marcus Foundation and Flavio Varani Fund for Pianists, under the guidance of Dr. Solomon Mikowsky, and was coached by Kirill Gerstein, Sylvia Rosenberg, Richard Goode, Anthony de Mare and Robert Levin.