Graduate in conducting, pianist and composer. I am a tenured Professor of Music and Performing Arts by competitive examination.

My instrumental training began at the age of eight, centred on the piano, but from the last years of my professional training I knew that what really interested me was to acquire a broader and more sophisticated knowledge of music, to go further in the search for a global conception that was not so centred on the piano, which led me to study conducting. I am passionate about harmony, analysis and, at the same time, management and dealing with human groups, so studying this discipline was a way to exploit these concerns and to learn enormously through observation, experience and, why not say it, also through mistakes.

I have studied conducting with masters of the stature of Enrique García Asensio, J. E. García Miranda, Aldo Ceccato, Cristóbal Soler, Nicole Corti, David Hill and Philip Lawson, and composition with Fernando Blanco and Fernando Buide, among others. With this background, I decided to focus my artistic activity on choral conducting and I am currently in charge of the musical direction of the Orfeón Terra a Nosa, an emblematic Galician choir that allows me to be active and continue learning day by day.

At the same time, I have never left aside my activity as a pianist, for me the basis of everything. For this reason I collaborate with a multitude of groups as well as with the singer-songwriter Luis Fercán, the latter in a more modern music-related aspect.

The combination of these two visions, analytical and practical, represented in the knowledge and application of the tools and mechanisms of musical composition in the first case and in piano practice in the second, were the key to having been able to pass the competitive examination for the speciality of Musical Language recently. For all these reasons, and now that I am a member of the team of preparers of competitive examinations at the Academia Dos Acordes, I will try to provide what for me are the keys to the different tests that make up the selection process with the meticulous, in-depth, gradual and individualised methodology that is necessary to achieve such an ambitious objective.