Tobías Álvarez (1996) is a Mexican-born music and sound creator who was born in Great Britain and raised in a family of Latin American artists. He began his professional studies at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico with Leonardo Coral, Gabriela Ortíz, and Jorge David García. In 2022, he studied orchestration with Edward Nesbit at King's College London. In 2023, he was awarded the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Chair in Musical Composition, having studied composition and orchestration with the maestro. He taught at the University of the Arts of Yucatán from 2024 to 2025. He is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in musical composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

He has devoted himself to composing both instrumental and electroacoustic music in an eclectic manner, with his works being performed in Mexico, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, and Switzerland. His works have been performed by the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra and the Eduardo Mata Youth Orchestra in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Likewise, his works have been performed by national ensembles such as the José White String Quartet, the KUIKANI Quartet, and CEPROMUSIC, among others. He has worked as a producer and sound designer for interdisciplinary projects and institutions such as the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City for exhibitions by artists Nicolás Jaar and Alva Noto.

He has received international awards and grants for artistic creation from the Mexican government, and has participated with state agencies such as the Center for Digital Arts, the National Forum for Music Research in Mexico, Música UNAM, and the Mexican Ministry of Culture. He recently won first prize in the Totem Electroacoustic Competition - 2nd Edition in Montreal and has been selected for the 10th Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2025 Call for Acousmatic Works in Switzerland. In 2025, he also received a commission from the Studio für Elektronische Musik at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. He received an honorable mention for his bachelor's degree in musical composition from UNAM with the dissertation: “Overview of technologies for music creation in academic composition.”