Born in Germany in 1970, he began his musical education at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Professors Amparo Fuster, Pedro Lerma, and Joaquín Soriano.
He completed his studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg (Germany), the Fondazione per il Pianoforte in Como (Italy), and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore (USA), studying primarily with Dmitri Bashkirov, Vitalij Margulis, and Leon Fleisher. He has also actively taken part in masterclasses given by Murray Perahia, Alexis Weissenberg, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Fou Ts’ong, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich, and György Kurtág, and for many years he received guidance from Professor Ferenc Rados.
He was a finalist at the Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition in 1990 and won First Prizes at the Chimay Foundation International Competition (Chimay, Belgium), the Pilar Bayona International Competition (Zaragoza), and the Dino Ciani International Competition (Milan).
His solo career has led him to perform throughout Europe, the United States, Russia, Central America, Korea, and Japan with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Teatro alla Scala Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic, Radio Svizzera Italiana, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Filarmonia Hungarica, and the majority of Spain’s leading orchestras.
He has served as assistant professor of piano at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid and as professor at the Higher Conservatories of Salamanca and Aragón. He is currently a piano professor at the Musikhochschule in Basel, Switzerland, and at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany.