Andrés Madariaga Corvalán, born in Santiago de Chile, has received more than 30 awards during his musical career in major national and international competitions in countries such as Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Thailand. Among these are first prizes at the Vital Medeiros Competition (Brazil, 2009), the A. Montovani Competition (Italy, 2018), the Asia Guitar Competition (Thailand, 2017), the Amarante International Guitar Competition (Portugal, 2018), the NRW Guitar Prize (Germany 2022), a second prize at the Miami International GuitART Competition (USA, 2021), and the Rising Star Competition at the Guitar Festival University in Rhode Island (USA, 2021)

Recently, Andrés won a fifth prize at the Tokyo Guitar Competition (Japan, 2022). Andrés also has also performed as soloist in Chile and internationally at various venues in Amarante, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Bad Kissingen, Bangkok, México City, Morelia, Milan, São Paulo, and Salzburg.

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He received his Bachelor of Guitar Performance from the Austral University of Chile in 2011 and his Master of Arts from the Mozarteum University in 2016, where he studied with Marco Tamayo.