Holds the following degrees from Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu de Barcelona:
- Professor Superior de Piano
- Professor Superior de Solfeig i Teoria de la Música
- Professor Superior de Composició
At The Hartt School (University of Hartford-USA) he earned the degrees of
- Master in Music
- Doctor in Musical Arts
His primary teachers have been Salvador Pueyo & James Sellars for composition, and Maria Jesús Crespo & Luiz de Moura Castro for piano performance.
Has been awarded several prizes in Spain as well as in the United States including:
- 2nd Prize at the 17th National Association of Composers USA-Young Composers Competition (Los Angeles, California; USA), 1995
- 2nd Prize at the International Composition Contest "Francesc Civil / Ciutat de Girona" (Girona, Catalunya; Spain), 1996
- Norman J. Bayles Memorial Award for Composition (The Hartt School, West Hartford, Connecticut; USA), 1993
- IX Premio Constitución (Junta de Extremadura, Extremadura; Spain), 1991
He has taught piano, theory, harmony, orchestration and composition for several years in Spain as well as in the USA and in Colombia,
working in such prestigious institutions as
- Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu de Barcelona
- Conservatori de Grau Mitjà d'Igualada
- The Hartt School - University of Hartford (USA)
- Universidad EAFIT - Dean of the Music Department from January 2004 until August 2005
At present he is Professor of Composition with exclusive dedication at the Nacional Conservatory of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
His compositional output, nowadays with more than 40 titles, ranges from piano solo works, chamber music, vocal music, choir and symphonic pieces. His works have been played quite often in public concerts.
Among them:
- Tres Momentos en Antioquia (symphonic orchestra)
- Catalanesca (symphonic orchestra)
- Somnis (chamber orchestra)
- String Quartet Hartford
- Trio per a Piano i Fustes (oboe, bassoon and piano)
- Tres Cançons Canadenques (soprano and string orchestra)
- Tres Poemes de Suite de Parlavà (soprano and piano)
- Tema amb variacions #2 (violin and piano)
- Five Small Piano Pieces
- Trio for Piano and Srings
- Quartet Ciutat Vella (fl, vn, va & vc)
- Suite para Elisa (cl & pn)
Recently he has revised and finished "Quinteto para piano y cuerdas op. 49 en sol menor" based on the surviving original manuscripts by Enric Granados.
Elected member of the American Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda in 1994 and member of the Associació Catalana de Compositors (ACC) since 1993.
His music is published by Clivis Edicions, La Mà de Guido, Editorial Boileau, Dinsic, Amalgama y Fondo Editorial Universidad EAFIT
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