[1] and "He set off a firework on the 88 piano keys which excited the audience in the Kulturzentrum right from the start"[1] Fernández-Nieto was born in Salamanca, Spain,[2] the eldest of three children.
He later pursued a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance at Graduate Center of the City University of New York studying under Ursula Oppens.
[5] In 2000, at the age of thirteen, Fernández-Nieto won First Prize in the Ciudad de Linares National Piano Competition.
Fernández-Nieto's international career has been rapidly flourishing after he stepped in last minute performing Mozart Piano Concerto Jeunehomme at Carnegie Hall with The Chamber Orchestra of New York in 2017,[5][2] which resulted in a standing ovation.
Same year he became a prize winner of the Iturbi International Piano Competition, and debuted in St. Martin in the Fields and St James's Picadilly in London, Chicago Cultural Center, Schumann Haus in Zwickau,[16] Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre,[17] Palau de la Música, and performed with Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and Orquesta de Valencia.
In 2018 Fernández-Nieto won the Audience Prize and the Canon Prize in XIX Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition,[3] and performed in Klavier-Festival Ruhr,[18][1] Classical Bridge Music Festival in New York,[19] Festival Internacional de Santander, Semana Internacional de la Música in Medina del Campo,[20] and as a soloist with Orquesta Nacional de Colombia in Teatro Colón in Bogotá[21] Fernández-Nieto's debut album, Carnaval, a monographic of music of Schumann, features both his carnavals.