Álvaro Vallejo Larre, violin and viola player from the andean Quito (Ecuador), will be seen playing the most diverse programms in Graz, almost all of them related with free improvisation. He has performed and recorded several Jazz pieces and albums composed by some of the most prominent young jazz composers of Austria like Johannes Berauer, Amelia Jane Jutilane, Cristina Miguel Martínez, Miriam Kulmer, Simon Kintopp, Emiliano Sampaio, Markus Neuwirth, among others. Álvaro has also shared stage with legends of the city like Patrick Dunst, Mathilde Vendramin, Tin Dzaferovic, Jan Krizanic-Nessmann, Sophie Stöcker, Nick Acorne, Derek Plunkie, and specially with Juan Pablo Trad Hasbun and Guillermo Villegas Alemán, with which he joined the band Nos Incogniti from 2019 until 2022. At the moment he is member of the Styrian Improvisers Orchestra, and of the Ensemble für Neue Musik conducted by Edo Micic. Since October 2023 he is in charge of the christian pop-rock band playing at the project Kirche im Kino with the singer Johanna Schenk until October 2024, and from now on with the keyboard player Thomas Krachler.