Christian del Real

Cristian Del Real is a professional musician, born in 1989 in Cartagena, Colombia. Del Real started his career when he was just 3 years old and was known at that time as "El Niño Genio Del Timbal" (Spanish for Genius Child of Timbal).^[1] Del Real played timbal with several of the most recognized salsa music stars.

At age 17 Del Real started to play classical piano as an autodidact.^[2] Del Real won the second prize in the Colombian National Piano festival in Bucaramanga in 2009.^[2]

In 2008 he traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to attend formal piano studies at University Juan N. Corpas.^[3] In August 2013, Del Real won the International Piano festival in Bogotá, Colombia. The prize included representing his country in the Changchun International Piano festival in May 2014.^[4][5]

In 2014 Cristian was laureate at the Federico Chopin Piano Contest in Colombia ^[6]