BIO

Studies

He finishes the highest degree in Piano (1995) and Composition and Orchestration (1999) at the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Música de Barcelona with Honor Mention (Piano) and Honor Prize (Composition and Orchestration). The final composition thesis is about John Cage. He receives assistantship with "Talent Award" by the University of Hartford (Connecticut) where he studies Piano with Luiz de Moura Castro, Contemporary Music Analysis with James Sellars and Music History and Aesthetics with Imanuel Willheim, where he finishes two degrees: Artist Diploma (1992) and Master in Piano Performance (1993). He has attended many piano and composition courses all over Europe. He gets the degree of Psicology at UOC (2007) and Master in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at ACPP (2010).

Teachers

His piano teachers have been Mercè Bastardes, Carme Poch and Luiz de Moura Castro and has also taken advice from Edith Fisher, Aquilles Delle Vigne, Joaquin Achúcarro and Stanislav Pochekin among others. He has studied chamber music with Àngel Soler, Manuel Garcia Morante, Pere Busquets, Albert Romaní and Dolors Aldea. He has studied composition with Carles Guinovart and David Padrós and has attended many composition courses given by Lleonard Balada, Joan Guinjoan, Jonathan Harvey, José Manuel López López, Bryan Ferneyhough, José Téllez, Salvatore Sciarrino and Walter Zimmermann.

Piano

He has given many recitals as a soloist and chamber music all over Europe and United States. He has been a member of different contemporary music ensembles like "Sinfonietta", "Barcelona 216" and "Hartt Contemporary Players", which with he has recorded "Chanson Dada" by James Sellars. He also played at the opera production "El gato con botas" by Xavier Montsalvatge. He has played also the harpsichord at the Orquestra del Maresme with Jordi Colomer as a conductor.

Composition

As a composer, he participates, through the Escola de Música de Gràcia, at the Festival de Música dels Joves Europeus  in 1998 in Barcelona, with the composition and recording of the cantata "La Força que mou l'Univers". He was selected by the JONC in the year 2000 in order to participate at the first Course of composition where “Mirroring the mirror” is premiered. His music “Dialogues” has been also premiered at the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburg), and its recording is in the CD of contemporary music Avuimúsica 2001 made by Associació Catalana de Compositors. “De facies Luna” has been also recorded in the CD E-Moon made by Ramon Humet. His music has been played through out Spain, United Kingdom and United States and some of them have been published at Brotons & Mercadal. He has also worked as musical editor for Periferia Music.

Prizes

He has won diferent prizes in competitions through out Catalonia: Concurs de Joves Intèrprets de Vilafranca del Penedès, Concurs Pio Tur d’Eivissa, Concurs de Berga, Concurs Joan Massià, as a pianist, and Pòdium per a grups de cambra a Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, as chamber music. As a composer he has won Concurs de Reus per a corals infantils (2002 i 2004), Premi de composició musical per a joves orquestres Paquita Madriguera d’Igualada (2002, 2003 i 2005) and Concurs de composició de música de cambra de Vic (2002).

Teaching

He has taught piano, improvisation, chamber music and instrumental and singing repertory in many schools and conservatories all over Catalonia: “Amics de la Música” in Bellvitge, Escola Oriol Martorell, Escola de Música de Gràcia, Conservatori Municipal de Música de Manresa, Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona, Conservatori d’Igualada, Escola de Música Aulos, Escola Municipal de Música i Dansa d'Esparreguera, ESMUC, Escola Municipal de Música de Navarcles, etc. He has also accompanied musical festivals and courses like the Curs d’Interpretació Musical a Girona, Curs d’Interpretació Escènica per Cantants given by Magda Puyo, Curs d’Interpretació de Repertori de Cançó Espanyola i Sarsuela by Isabel Penagos, and also singing courses by Dolors Aldea. He has given speeches about his music and other matters in various music schools in Catalonia. Today he teaches chamber music and singing repertory at the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Sabadell. He also teaches piano, composition, analysis and orchestration privately.