(b. 1976 San José, Costa Rica)
composer, songwriter and performer
My music has been performed in various cities including Moscow, New York, Boston and Cambridge (UK) among others. After finishing a master's in composition at Boston University I spent 3 years composing and researching independently in Hungary, The Netherlands and England. While doing so, my String Quartet No.1 was awarded first prize at the Pablo Sorozabal Composition Competition 2005 which led to its premiere by the Iturriaga Quartet at the opening concert of the Quincena Musical 2006 in San Sebastián, Spain (read review). Also in 2005, my piece for harpsichord and drum-set won first prize at the Budapest Clavicembalo Foundation Competition and was performed at a live broadcast from the Hungarian National Radio studios. During this time I did a two-week residency at the Steim Labs in Amsterdam and attended the International Sonology Course at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Recent and upcoming commitments include a new piece for the Hungarian virtuoso group Trio Lignum, a violin and bass clarinet duo for the New York Miniaturist Ensemble and a piece for horn and computer for the US West Horn Conference, all of these as part of collaborations produced by the altaVoz Composers Ensemble, a group of Latin-American composers of which I am a founding member. I am currently working on a new commission by the New York-based Ikarus Chamber Players and for which I have received a grant from the PRS Foundation / Bliss Trust in the UK to travel to the premiere later this year.
I am cofounder, as well as performer and composer of If Version Linger, a new music band working in North England, and a member of Kairos, a Manchester-based electroacoustic improvisation ensemble.
Currently, I am working towards a practice-based research PhD in composition at the Novars Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance and Sound Art in the University of Manchester under the tutelage of Valencian composer, Ricardo Climent.
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