Hugo was born in Rancagua, Chile and began playing the piano at the age of seven and later completed piano studies with Victoria Foust at the Universidad Mayor Conservatory in Santiago de Chile. His enthusiasm for the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and his desire to immerse himself in European musical culture led him to Vienna in 2014, where he completed his master's degree in piano at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with Klaus Sticken.
Numerous awards have accompanied his career, and he has been a laureate of the "Claudio Arrau" Piano Competition in Quilpué (Chile), the music competitions in Osaka (Japan), "Delia Steinberg" in Madrid (Spain) and the Bechstein-Bruckner Piano Competition in Linz (Austria). Through performances at the Texas State International Piano Festival or the chamber music festival "Musica Mundi" in Belgium he attracted international attention. He has also collaborated with Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik on streaming concert projects.
Hugo Alonso gives special importance to chamber music. With cellist Nicole Peña Comas, he released the album "El Canto del cisne negro" in 2020 under the ARS Produktion Label, with recordings of works by Latin American composers. As a duo with clarinetist Johanna Gossner, he won several international competitions such as the European Music Competition Città di Moncalieri 2019. The "Trio Mosaik" with his brother Diego Patricio (Bassoon) and Johanna Gossner (Clarinet) was awarded 1st prize at the FIDELIO Music Competition 2018 in Vienna as well as the Audience Award.
His debut album "Un corazón al fin del Mundo" (2017) was the result of his own musical research with the aim of enriching today's concert repertoire with the musical heritage of Chile. Hugo's roots in both European tradition and Latin American repertoire have established him as a musical ambassador for his region and country.