About Me

My biography in a few words: I am a  composer and pianist who was born in Mexico City and studied with Cuban pianists Marcia Freyre and Marcia Freyre de Andrade in Mexico, and then with pianists Mario Feninger and Ian Brooks in the United States. I made my pianistic debut in Mexico in 1985, appearing in numerous recitals  and also on TV, in a show called Estudio 54 several times.

In the late eighties I injured my left hand, which forced me to  perform music for one hand for several years, recording the CD “Piano Music for One Hand”. Then, through several years of work with Dorothy Taubman and Nina Scolnik, I was able to resume playing with both hands.

In the nineties I started to compose, being taught the basics by my mentor, Mario Feninger. And when I returned to playing in public, I did so performing my own music.

In 2005 I recorded my CD “Almost Songs”, which was called “sensational listening” by The Jamestown Post-Journal. In 2006 ERM Music recorded my First Piano Concerto in Kyiv and issued it as part of his Masterworks of the New Era series. My Second Piano Concerto was recorded in 2013 in Bratislava and came out in the CD “Memories of my Childhood”, which included both concerti.

Through the advice of my friend Stephen Paulus, I started to pursue the composition of choral music and in 2017 “Moses, An Oratorio” for choir SATB, soloists and chamber orchestra was premiered by the the San Fernando Valley Master Chorale in Los Angeles, which named me its composer in residence, a position I still hold.

I was given a McKnight Visiting Composer residency in 2019 by the American Composer Forum and I wrote The Immigrants, a work in 4 movements about Mexican immigrants in Minneapolis as part of my residency, but the May 2020 premiere got cancelled due to COVID. However, it got recorded virtually at the end of 2020 and it got premiered in television, on Channel 22 of Mexico City.

I have a catalog of 34 opuses comprising around 120 works for piano, chamber ensembles, choirs, Jewish cantorial music and orchestral and symphonic band music.