ALBERTO "BETO" VILLALOBOS
Alberto Villalobos, (Xalapa, Mexico, 1982).
Alberto Villalobos is a musician, composer, and visual artist. He studied at the University of Veracruz under Carlos Marrufo and earned a Master’s degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels with Igor Oistrakh. He also trained with Liviu Prunaru at the International Yehudi Menuhin Academy in Switzerland and with Zakhar Bron in Vienna.
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Alberto is a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Villalobos Brothers, alongside his brothers Luis and Ernesto. Blending classical training with Mexican folk and contemporary sounds, their music conveys messages of love, brotherhood, and social justice. The group has performed on world-renowned stages including Carnegie Hall, The Latin Grammys, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations 60th Anniversary Gala.
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The Villalobos Brothers have collaborated with celebrated artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Antonio Sánchez, and Arturo O’Farrill. Their participation in Fandango at the Wall, a project uniting musicians from both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border, led to a live album and an HBO documentary of the same name. The album went on to win the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.
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As a visual artist, Villalobos debuted with Masks & Murals of Mexico at the Grady Alexis Gallery in New York City (2008). His artwork has been featured in exhibitions across the United States, including Día de Muertos at The Bath House Cultural Center (Dallas, TX), #migration61 in Washington, D.C., and Mugshots at Verum Ultimum (Portland, OR) during the 2017 NCECA Conference. In 2017, he created Hombres de Arcilla (Men of Clay), a collection of handmade clay masks honoring disappeared activists, journalists, and political prisoners in Mexico, including the 43 students from Ayotzinapa. The series was exhibited at The Point Campus (Bronx, NY), The Sembrich Museum (Lake George, NY), and the Latino Arts Gallery (Milwaukee, WI).
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In June 2025, Villalobos unveiled Humanity, a large-scale mural commissioned by the Claremont Center for the Arts in New Hampshire, celebrating cultural diversity and collective resilience.
Villalobos also wrote and illustrated the bilingual short story Los Voladores del Páramo (Flyers of the Moorland), self-published in 2017.
With the Villalobos Brothers, he premiered their Symphonic Project in 2018 with the San Francisco Symphony and Walla Walla Symphony, later performing with the Santa Rosa Symphony and Yakima Symphony. In 2019, the group released their second studio album, Somos, and they are currently working on a new album scheduled for release in 2026. Through their music, the Villalobos Brothers have become an influential voice for social justice, equality, and brotherhood, using art as a bridge between cultures and communities.
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Alberto is an enthusiastic yogi and a certified Hatha Yoga instructor trained at the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in Woodbourne, NY.
