Praised for “demonstrating exactly how a real musician can possess a limitless reserve of technical strength, (…) always placed in subservience to the uncompromising musical demands of the score” (Musical Opinion) and for his “clarity and exceptional tonal control” (Musical Opinion), Darío Llanos Javierre has been hailed as having an “intellectually probing pianism of forensic intensity, but delivered without fuss or excessive gesture” (The Liszt Society Newsletter). He is currently based in Dallas, where he holds a teaching fellowship in the College of Music at the University of North Texas for his Graduate Artist Certificate in Music Performance with Maestro Joseph Banowetz.

He began his musical career during his formative stage at Kensington School in Pozuelo, Madrid. He studied with Maestro Jacobo Ponce at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. He specialised in contemporary piano repertoire with renowned pianist Sebastián Mariné, and deepened his study of harmony and improvisation with Emilio Molina. In 2010, he graduated achieving the highest possible mark: Matrícula de Honor.

Since then, he has continued developing his understanding of music and its approach through the piano, attending courses with Joseph Banowetz, Leslie Howard, Daniel Pollack, Peter Frankl, Murray McLachlan, Steven Osborne, Carlo Brante, Bobby Chen, Steven Vanhauwaert, Arpad Bodó, Pascal Devoyon and Rikako Murata.

In 2014 he was awarded the first prize in the International Piano Prize organised by The Liszt Society in London for his interpretation of the Troisième Année of Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage. Since then, he is regularly invited by Master Musicians International to give series of recitals across the Northeast of England and, recently, was invited to perform in London for The Liszt Society, in association with The Keyboard Charitable Trust, during the Annual General Meeting in 2015. His outstanding acquaintance of Franz Liszt’s work was acknowledged again in 2016, being a prizewinner in the Los Angeles Franz Liszt International Piano Competition.

He has performed solo and with orchestra in Europe and in the United States. During the XX anniversary of the passing of Spanish pianist Esteban Sánchez, he was invited to perform Jose Buenagu’s Rhapsody-Tribute (on pianistic themes by Esteban Sánchez) in Badajoz (Spain) with the Orquesta de Extremadura, followed by Franz Liszt’s Concerto Nº2 in A M, S125, one of Sánchez’s favorites.