CONDUCTOR
Born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), he studied music at the Superior Conservatory of Seville - Piano and Chamber Music, with professors Ana Guijarro, José María Redondo and Juan Rodríguez Romero. Honors Awards in Chamber Music and Harmony and Honorable Mention in Piano-, at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg -Masters in Conducting with Dennis Russell Davies and Jorge Rotter, Choir Conducting with Karl Kamper and Composition with Christian Ofenbauer and Reinhard Febel- and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Warsaw (PhD in Conducting, 2017). Masterclasses, among others, with Ramón Coll and Joseph Paratore (piano), Reiner Schmidt (chamber music), Neil Thompson and Arturo Tamayo (conducting) and Cristóbal Halffter, Franco Donatoni, Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, George Crumb and Beat Furrer (composition).
Professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel Castillo and Full Academician of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes Santa Isabel de Hungría of Seville. Conductor of the OSC and conductor and founder of Zahir Ensemble. He is also musical director of the Taschenoper Festival of Salzburg (2005-2017).
He has conducted orchestras such as the Brucknerorchester-Linz, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, ROSS, Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, OENM (Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik), Witold Lutoslawski Chamber Philharmonic (Lomza, Poland), and other ensembles such as Sax Ensemble, in halls and theaters such as the Teatro Villamarta of Xerez, Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville, Teatro Central of Seville, Auditorio 400 of Reina Sofía´s Museum in Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Teatros del Canal of Madrid, Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Palau de les Arts of Valencia, Opéra National Paris Bastille, Grosser Saal Mozarteum Salzburg, Solitär Saal Mozarteum Salzburg, Brucknersaal in Linz, Cemal Reşit Rey Konser Salonu, Concert Hall of the Chopin University of Music
He has recorded with Haas, Sello Autor, Verso, Canticum, Naxos and IBS Classical.