Biography /

Born in Granada in 1993, he began his musical training at an early age. After studying Piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Granada and at the Musikeon-Center for Piano Specialization in Valencia, he moved to Barcelona, where he studied a Bachelor’s Degree in Harpsichord with Luca Guglielmi at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). Nowadays, he lives in Geneva (Switzerland), where he is studying for a Master's Degree in Conducting of Baroque Ensembles (Maestro al cembalo) at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, with Leonardo García Alarcón.

 

In the field of early music, he has received lessons from harpsichordists like Luca Guglielmi, Christophe Rousset, Leonardo García Alarcón, Aarón Zapico, Darío Moreno, and Eduardo López Banzo; as well as from organists like Óscar Candendo, Alessio Corti, Juan María Pedrero, and Andrés Cea, and from fortepianists like Luca Chiantore, Pablo Gómez Ábalos, and Edoardo Torbianelli. He has extended his training in the sphere of historically informed performance with important musicians, such as Manfredo Kraemer, Mara Galassi, Lorenzo Coppola, Pedro Memelsdorff, Alexis Kossenko, Marc Hantaï, Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Emilio Moreno or Emmanuel Balssa, among others. Interested in Orchestra Conducting from a very young age, he began studying this discipline at the age of sixteen, pursuing then his training with stays in London and Berlin, and receiving classes and advice from conductors such as Leonardo García Alarcón, Enrique García Asensio, Colin Metters, Bruno Aprea, Miguel Romea, Michael Thomas, Achim Holub, and Manuel Hernández-Silva, among others.

 

As a conductor, he has led several orchestral ensembles, such as Berlin Sinfonietta, London Classical Soloists, Orchestra Frau Musika, Barcelona Baroque Orchestra, Granada Philharmonia Orchestra, or León Youth Orchestra; besides, he has conducted some vocal groups, like Coro del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Vokalsystem Berlin and Tomás Luis de Victoria Choir. As a harpsichordist, he has collaborated with groups such as Cantoría, Serendipia Ensemble, Granada Baroque Orchestra and the Akademie Versailles of Collegium Marianum Prague, among others. In 2013, he founded the early music group Íliber Ensemble, becoming its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor from then on. Since 2017, he has been the Artistic Director in the staged productions by the Granada Baroque Orchestra. Since 2020, he is Harpsichordist/Organist of Continuum XXI, a Spanish-German group specialized in Contemporary Music on historical instruments and, since 2022, he is also the Harpsichordist of the Barcelona Baroque Orchestra. In 2021, he participated as harpsichordist and conductor of the Granada Festival Baroque Academy, working hand-in-hand with Carlos Mena. Since 2022, he is Assistant Conductor of the Orchestra Frau Musika of Vicenza (Italy), whose Principal Conductor is Andrea Marcon.

 

As a result of these activities, he has performed concerts in countries like Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Czech Republic and China, playing in music halls such as Daning Theatre (Shanghai), Hellerau Festspielhaus (Dresden), L’Auditori and Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), Palau de la Música (Valencia), Teatros del Canal (Madrid), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, City of León Auditorium or Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada), among others. He has made recordings for the Spanish National Television (RTVE) and for the IBS Classical and Patrimonio Sonoro labels.

 

As a researcher, he has published several articles and has given lectures at institutions such as the University of La Rioja, Madrid Royal Conservatory and Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. Besides, he has made the first translation into Spanish in the history of the first edition of L’art de toucher le clavecin by François Couperin, published in Valencia in 2016, coinciding with the tercentenary of the original publication.