Born in Valladolid (Spain), he studies Art history, classical guitar and Musicology focusing his interests as a musicologist on the figure of Francisco Guerrero. Since 2005, he works as a critic for different media and in 2007 he is appointed director of the Audioclásica magazine. Also, during 2009 he works as presenter and director of various radio programs on Spanish National Radio. From 2013 he leads his interests towards composition training under Alberto Posadas, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, Rebecca Saunder or Chaya Czernowin, among others. As a composer, his music has been performed by musicians such as Christophe Desjardins, Lorelei Dowling, Christian Dierstein, William Blank and Franck Ollu. In 2016 he gets a grant from the Madrid government and a year later he wins the 1st prize in the International Composition Competition of the Festival of Sacred Music in Fribourg. Also, in 2021 he gets the 3rd prize in the Basel Composition Competition.
About the music
Music is for me an unavoidable necessity, a way of knowing the world and a way of relating to our environment in which the ear plays a privileged role. Science, entomology, ethology, astronomy, as well as certain contributions from other artistic disciplines, such as literature, video-art or photography have been exceptional poetic models and creative stimuli for me. The behavior of a particular type of spider –practically unique in the world–, a certain astrophysical phenomena such as gravitational waves, supermassive black holes and supernovae or overexposure in the photographic work of Francesca Woodman have served as extremely rich references from of which to structure a musical discourse where instrumental research, sound continuity and roughness acquire a leading role.
Photo credits
Lucía Morate
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