Álvaro Pierri is a classical guitarist. He is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
He received his early musical education from his mother, Ada Estades and aunt, Olga Pierri, on the guitar. Later he studied with Abel Carlevaro, the composer Guido Santórsola at the Uruguayan National Institute of Musicology.
From the age of 11 he was winning prizes in international guitar competitions, including 1st Prize in the International Guitar Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1st Prize in the International Guitar Competition in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the gold medal at 18th International Competition by France Musique/Radio France in Paris.
Pierri's debut in the USA took place in New York and received reviews like ”Mr. Pierri revealed an artistic maturity not commonly encountered", ”compared to artists as Segovia, Bream, Williams" and ”brilliant, sensitive, versatile, breathtaking". In 1983 he made his debut in Germany with the string soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and he subsequently appeared on numerous radio and television programmes produced by the German, Austrian, Danish, Spanish, French, Canadian, Korean and Japanese Radios.