Spain
His output includes more than 90 works across all genres: orchestral works, including 4 symphonies, 1 opera, numerous chamber music pieces, and an important catalog of piano works.
Madrid, 1961. Winner of the National Music Prize (Spain, 2004), he has a catalogue of more than 150 works, including 16 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, and 19 string quartets, among other compositions. His Piano Concerto No. 3 "Rivers in Winter" had its world premiere in Slovakia in 2026 performed by Noelia Rodiles and the Slovak Philharmonic under the baton of Daniel Raiskin.
His music has been conducted by renowned maestros such as Kent Nagano, Neville Marriner, Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, and Philippe Entremont, among others.
He has received commissions from prestigious institutions and ensembles including the Center for the Dissemination of Contemporary Music (CDMC, Spanish Ministry of Culture), Ensemble InterContemporain (Paris), Spanish National Orchestra (ONE), Gulbenkian Foundation, Ensemble Drumming, Ibermúsica, the Venice Biennale, ORCAM, Novecento Musica (Milan), the Archdiocese of Milan, Ensemble L’Itinéraire (Paris), JONDE, Neville Marriner, and L’Auditori de Barcelona, as well as various international groups and soloists.
He divides his time between Copenhagen and Madrid. In 2015, he published Dentro de un instante (Within an Instant), a collection of aphoristic reflections on artistic creation.
2026-2027
