Louis Demetrius Alvanis (born 21 December 1960) is a British classical pianist. He made his concerto debut at the

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at the age of twenty. Alvanis plays the full range of keyboard repertoire from the

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masters to contemporary serious music. He is particularly known for his performances of the Romantics, especially Chopin, Schumann and Brahms some of which have been recorded on CD with

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. Commenting on his recording of Chopin’s Three Piano Sonatas, Fanfare Magazine remarked, “this is playing of a gifted and greatly cultivated Chopin pianist”.

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