resumed biography

Born in Barcelona, where he studies music at the City Conservatoire.
He has founded the Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, the jazz groups Catalònia (1977), Onix (1983), Ictus (1987) and his own trio, as well as tangos group Araca (1995).

He has recorded numerous programs for radio and T.V. and has performed at the most important festivals in Spain, Portugal, France, England, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, Israel, U.S.A. , China and Argentine. He has collaborated with jazz musicians as Wynton Marsalis, Dave Liebman, John Abercrombie, Kenny Wheeler, amongst others, with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, with the Belgian Radio and T.V. big-band, with the Simphony Orchestra Ciudad de Granada, with the Beethoven Academie of Belgium, with the National Chamber Orchestra of Andorra, with the Chamber Orchestra Andrés Segovia, and with the Orquesta Nacional de
España.

For a eigtheen years he was member of the Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, such as pianist, arranger, composer and musical and artistic director.

As a composer, he has written music for movies and for theater, as well as numerous pieces for big band, orchestra, solo artists and several different ensembles, plus all the material he place on stage preformances, either with the trio or as a solo pianist.

He has been teaching at the AMMJ at the Taller de Músics of Barcelona (being musical director for three years) and actually at the ESMUC.
He has done more than fiveteen records such a leader and among others like a sideman.

He has been awarded for many diferent composition prizes, the Music Nacional Award by the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the award by the Jazz Musicians Association of Catalonia.

 

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