Career
He has been a top prize-winner of national and international piano competitions. His prizes include Valencia (1994) and Gernika (1996) international piano competitions, and he has also been awarded special prizes for the best performance of Cuban and Spanish Music. Vallina"s debut performance was at the Zurich Tonhalle in 1998.
Vallina performs a broad repertoire from Bach to contemporary works and new compositions, some of them dedicated to him.
The new composition First concerto for Piano and Orchestra by the Colombian composer Arturo Cuellar, premiered at the Colón Theater of Buenos Aires in 2001. The Sonata en Mi bemol of the same composer, premièred at the Zürich Tonhalle in 2002.
Vallina opened Martha Argerich Project Lugano Festival 2007, performing the Lutoslawsky Paganini Variations with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. He performed Mac Dowell"s second piano concerto with the Orchestre Philarmonique de Liège, at the opening concert of the Festival Amériques (2008).
During the Martha Argerich Project_Lugano Festival 2009 he performed with the legendary pianist a memorable version of Liszt_Don Juan.
In 2010 he mainly focused on Chopin and Schumann. He is also Executive Professor at the first online musical academy of the world: The Lions-Club Mozart Academy of Vienna.
