He studied piano and euphonium with the Muro band and at the Alcoy and Valencia conservatories. He studied band conducting in Holland with Jan Cober and Eugene Corporon, orchestral conducting in Vienna with Karl Österreicher, Yuji Yuasa and Hans Graf, and harmony and composition with R. Alcaraz and J. Darias.
He has conducted bands and orchestras in Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay and the United States. They include the national youth orchestras of Holland and Colombia; the national band of Cuba; the Slovenian SAF Army Band; the municipal bands of Buenos Aires and Montevideo; the Orchestra Accademia of La Fenice Opera House, in Venice; the WASBE Youth Wind Orchestra in San José (California); the Swiss AULOS Blasorchester; the Bilbao, Albacete and Murcia symphony orchestras; the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra; the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra; municipal bands of A Coruña, Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Santiago de Compostela and Vitoria; Oviedo, Granada, Jaén, A Coruña, the Canaries and MUSIKENE (Basque country) conservatory bands; the Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra, and the La Rioja Symphonic Band, among others.
He has worked with renowned soloists such as Paquito D’Rivera, Sergei Nakariakov, Jorgen van Rijen, Asier Polo, Albert Guinovart, Esteban Batallán, Vincent David, Sergio Carolino, Selina Ott, Manuel Blanco, Rubén Simeó, Marta Mathéu, Elisabete Matos, and Estrella Morente, among others. He has conducted world premieres of compositions by Luis de Pablo, Lleonard Balada, Agustí Charles, Enric Palomar, Johan de Meij, and Franco Cesarini, among others. As a conductor, he has recorded around thirty CDs for national and international labels, in addition to various recordings for digital platforms such as L’Auditori Play.
He has conducted groups including Orfeón Donostiarra, the Bilbao Choral Society and the quintet Spanish Brass, and has composed a number of works for band, choir and dulzaina, scenic music and chamber music. He has also been commissioned to write pieces for many festivals (SBALZ Alzira, Certamen d’Altea, Tafalla Brass Week, Castile-La Mancha Music Festival, Cocentaina Choral Competition, etc.) and prestigious soloists, including Spanish Brass, Steven Mead, Luis González, Ximo Vicedo, Carlos Gil and 2i2quartet.
Since 2015 he has been principal conductor with Bilbao Municipal Band and since 2018 he has also been principal conductor of the Barcelona Symphonic Band. He is also principal guest conductor with the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa in Porto.
In 1997 he won the Golden Baton at the WMC Kerkrade International Conductors Contest in Holland, and in 2000 he was awarded the Baton of Honour at the EBBA Conductors Competition in Birmingham, England. In 2004, he won the Euterpe Award for festive music composition and the Euterpe Award for band conducting by the Valencia Federation of Music Associations. In 2010, he received the ‘Ignacio Morales Nieva’ National Music Award at the Castilla-La Mancha Music Festival.
