Born in Uruguay in 1948, pianist Alberto Reyes has been concertizing internationally for more than five decades, having played his first recital at the age of eight in his native Montevideo, performing works of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy, and repeating the program one month later in Buenos Aires.

As a prizewinner/laureate in some of the most prestigious international  competitions, such as the Van Cliburn (1973), Leventritt (1971), Tchaikovsky (1970) and Rio de Janeiro (1969), Reyes has toured extensively in the U.S., the former Soviet Union, Canada, and South America. He made his New York debut at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in 1974, and his Moscow debut in 1972

For more than 30 years, Reyes maintained a parallel career as a simultaneous interpreter at United nations Headquarters in New York. After his retirement from the U.N. in 2007, he gathered international acclaim as a recording artist in publications such as Gramophone, Americand Record Guide, International Record Review, International Piano, BBC Music, Scherzo and Fanfare for his recordings of works by Chopin and Schumann for VAI Audio. His earlier recording of Liszt's complete paraphrases and transcriptions of Verdi operas, released by Connoisseur Society in 1994 received similar accolades.

Recently, Alberto Reyes has appeared in recital at London's Wigmore Hall in 2012, Cadogan Hall in 2014 and St.John's Smith Square; at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, and at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City; in Washington D.C.; at the International Piano Festival in Houston, Texas; at the Beethoven International Festival of Bogotá, Colombia: as soloist with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra in Argentina and with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo, Uruguay,  and at the Teatro Solís "Great Performers" series also in Montevideo, Uruguay. 

In July 2017, Gramophone named his latest recording of works by Bach-Busoni, Franck, Chopin and Schumann, "Editor´s Choice", as one of the "best new classical albums"