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Professor of Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, Doctor "cum laude" by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he is a native of that city, where he obtained the Superior Degree of piano with honors. He obtained the higher degrees of Chamber Music, Musical Language and Composition, with Extraordinary Prize of End of Career, and finished postgraduate studies in Germany with Wolfgang Rihm.



He has received awards and mentions in national and international competitions for his choral, symphonic, chamber, electroacoustic and arranging works. His music has been included in 16 CDs, and has been performed in Berlin, Paris, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Havana, Seoul, Shanghai, USA, Barcelona, Madrid, etc.. and by orchestras such as the Russian Chamber Orchestra of St. Peterburg, the OFGC, the Sinfonietta of Paris or the Hungarian Chamber Symphony Orchestra, symphonic bands like the Portuguese Symphonic Band or the GCWO, performers like Garth Knox, Juri Gilbo, Radovan Cavallin, Raquel Lojendio, Joseph van der Linden, Julián Elvira, etc. and in auditoriums such as Konzerthaus of Vienna, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Auditorio Nacional de España, Cadogan Hall of London, etc.



His arrangements of popular music have been part of musicals such as "Querido Néstor II", have been commissioned for institutional events such as the Day of the Canary Islands and are recorded on CDs of groups such as Artenara or Mestisay. His adaptations for orchestra of international, national and local themes (Queen, Violeta Parra, Néstor Álamo, Arístides Moreno, etc.) have been interpreted by different orchestras (Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, OUMV, etc.) and all kinds of formations.

 

As a performer he has premiered works by composers such as Christina Athinodorou, Laura Vega or Alberto Martínez, as well as his own works. As an improviser he has performed concerts with piano and electroacoustic media, as a soloist or in a group, at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, the Zaragoza Exposition 2008, Amsterdam, Berlin, Valencia, Madrid, etc., as well as improvisation concerts scoring classic silent films such as "Sunrise" by Murnau, or "Der Müde Todd" by Fritz Lang.

 

He has been president of PROMUSCAN (Asociación para la Promoción y difusión de la Música hecha en Canarias), is secretary of the AIM (Asociación de Improvisadores) and has participated as a speaker in workshops, courses and round tables on improvisation, analysis, new technologies, electroacoustic and contemporary music, and as a jury member in composition competitions.



He is a founding member of the group #(928), dedicated to electroacoustic and multidisciplinary improvisation, and of the Ensemble Salvaje, dedicated to premieres and improvisation concerts in symphonic format. As a teacher he has been awarded the Prize for Good Teaching Practices by the Government of the Canary Islands.

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