He began his musical studies at the age of 12, composing his first piece at 14. He started studying solfège, piano, and choral ensemble at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Carmen Ledesma, in the Chair of Joaquín Soriano. Although he was unable to complete his formal studies there, he has continued his education to this day. He holds a Ph.D. in Arts from Rey Juan Carlos University and has completed a Master’s in Musical Creation and Performance at Rey Juan Carlos University and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid. Additionally, he has earned a degree in Musicology and History of Music from the University of La Rioja, a degree in Sound and Image Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a diploma in Computer Science from the Pontifical University of Comillas. He has also attended masterclasses with conductors Jesús López Cobos and José Luis Temes and studied orchestral conducting with maestro Navarro Lara.
As a musicologist, he has devoted himself to the promotion of contemporary consonant music, premiering works in Spain by composers such as Vladimir Martynov, Michael Hurd, Gerald Finzi, Astor Piazzolla, Marjan Mozetich, and Giovanni Sollima, among others. He co-founded the Non-Profit Music Chamber Orchestra alongside violinist Ara Malikian and collaborated with the Extremadura Orchestra and its conductor, Jesús Amigo, on world premiere recordings of works by Ernesto and Rodolfo Halffter and Julián Bautista. He has also contributed to the rediscovery and dissemination of the works of Bohemian composer Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763–1850) and the nearly forgotten composer Robert Kahn (1865–1951) alongside the B3 Classic Trio.
He taught at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for nearly 39 years in the field of Signal Theory and Communications at the Higher Technical School of Engineering and Telecommunication Systems. Throughout his academic career, he held various faculty positions, starting in 1985 as a Course Lecturer, then serving as a Tenured Professor at the University School, Associate Professor, and finally as a University Professor, before earning accreditation as a Full Professor in Arts and Humanities. This achievement made him the first professor at the university to be accredited in this academic branch.
He taught courses in Sound and Image Engineering, covering areas such as Architectural Acoustics, Sound Reinforcement, Audio Engineering, and Audio Production and Postproduction. He concluded his tenure at the university as the coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Music and its Science and Technology at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid.
Since 1981, he has released over thirty recordings with labels such as Sony Classical, Chandos, Virgin, Warner Music, Silenzio, BMG, RCA, and Non-Profit Music. His work spans film and television, both nationally and internationally. His compositions have been performed and broadcast mainly in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, China, Japan, Brazil, and Spain.
His music has been nominated for and awarded numerous prizes. In the United States, he won the Narcissus Award in 2005 and was nominated for "Best Instrumental Contemporary Album" at the NAR 2004 for his work *We Are the Forthcoming Past, Take Care of It*. More recently, in 2013, he won the award for Best Instrumental Work at the 12th Independent Music Awards for his string quartet *On Blondes and Detectives*, dedicated to the Brodsky Quartet. This piece also won First Prize for Best Instrumental Work at the 12th International Songwriting Competition in 2014. That same year, he received two Boston Metro Opera awards for his monodramas *Four Sad Seasons over Madrid*, which won the BMO Concert Award, and *God’s Sketches*, which won the BMO Director’s Choice Award.
Several of his works have been nominated for major awards, including *God’s Sketches*, which was a nominee for Best Classical Music Album at the 2013 Independent Music Awards, performed by the Brodsky Quartet, Susana Cordón, and Jaime Fernández. In 2012, the album *Play It Again*, featuring his piano trio *A Walk Across Adolescence*, dedicated to Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin and performed by the Trío Arbós, was nominated for Best Classical Music Album at the 4th Independent Music Awards. In 2010, the album *No Seasons*, featuring *Four Sad Seasons over Madrid* for violin, soprano, piano, and string orchestra, received a nomination for Best Classical Performer at the Spanish Music Awards. Similarly, in 2008, the album *Meeting with a Friend*, performed by Ara Malikian and the NPM Chamber Orchestra and featuring his *Concerto Sentido* for violin, viola, cello, and string orchestra, was nominated for Best Classical Performer.
His works have been performed by prestigious soloists, including flutist Gili Schwarzman; violinists Ara Malikian, Daniel Rowland, Vicente Cueva, Rubén Darío Reina, and Robert Davidovici; violists like Isabel Villanueva; cellists such as Alisa Weilerstein, Torleif Thedéen, Jiøí Bárta, Iagoba Fanlo, and Christoph Otto Beyer; pianists like Daniel del Pino, Eduardo Frías, Albert Guinovart, Josu Okiñena, and Ohad Ben Ari; sopranos Susana Cordón and Laia Falcón; tenors Antoni Comas and Guillén Munguía; chamber ensembles such as the Brodsky Quartet, Trío Arbós, Habemus Quartet, Synthèse Quartet, and B3 Classic Trio; orchestras including the Sydney Contemporary Orchestra, Ensemble Kuraia, the Catalan Chamber Orchestra, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Winchester Orchestra of San José, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador, the Chamber Orchestra of Spain, and the Madrid Community Orchestra and Choir; and conductors such as Pedro Halffter, Guy Braunstein, Joan Pàmies, Javier Ulises Illán, and Víctor Pablo Pérez. His compositions have premiered in venues like the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, the Teatro de la Zarzuela, the Teatros del Canal, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the UNESCO headquarters.
In 2011, he was commissioned by the 17th Toledo International Music Festival to compose a piece for its world premiere. He created *Warhol in Springtime*, a sonata for flute and piano, which premiered with resounding success. His violin and piano sonata *What Inspires Poetry*, dedicated to composer Marjan Mozetich, has been widely broadcast in the United States, becoming one of the most frequently aired Spanish contemporary works in the 21st century.
In 2016, radio stations in Chicago, New York, and Hawaii dedicated a two-hour program to his work. In 2017, Sony Classical released the complete recordings of his piano works, which were presented at Carnegie Hall. That same year, his partita *Shoah for Solo Violin and Sacred Temple*, a tribute to Holocaust victims, was released on the Non-Profit Music label.
In 2018, he was commissioned by the Community of Madrid to compose *Cantata Levi* in honor of Primo Levi for the closing of the 29th International Festival of Sacred Art. In 2019, he composed *Jan & Jan* for symphony orchestra and choir, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc's self-immolation in Prague. The piece premiered at the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid.
In 2021, his piano and cello concertos, performed by Eduardo Frías and Iagoba Fanlo with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra under Pedro Halffter, were released to critical acclaim, receiving the *Melómano de Oro* award and being named Album of the Year by *La Hora Azul* on Radio Clásica. In 2022, a monographic concert featuring his flute works was presented at Carnegie Hall.
In 2023, UNESCO selected *Shoah for Solo Violin and Sacred Temple* to commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
His scores are published internationally by Wise Music Classical, Miotta & Molière, OE Oficina, and the Non-Profit Music Foundation.
