Biography

Principal horn of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra since 2020 and previously principal assistant from 2015. He was previously a member of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra as tutti horn. In recent years he has collaborated as principal horn with leading international orchestras such as the Orchestra Mozart of Bologna, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra, as well as with national ensembles such as the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, the Extremadura Orchestra and the Spanish National Orchestra.

Graduated with honours from the A Coruña Conservatoire and holding a Master of Arts from the University of London, at the Royal Academy of Music, thanks to a scholarship from the ABRSM. He completed his studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with a scholarship from the Albéniz Foundation, being named the outstanding student of the horn department in 2013.

Important figures in his training include Rodolfo Epelde and Radovan Vlatkovic in Madrid, Richard Watkins and Michael Thompson in London, and, fundamental in his early years as a horn player, Delio Represas and Benjamín Iglesias.

He was also awarded a scholarship by the JONDE-BBVA Foundation to receive private lessons from the prestigious Norwegian horn player Fröydis Ree Wekre.

He has an important orchestral background as a member of the EUYO and the GMJO, taking part in several tours across Europe and North America. He has also been part of the JONDE and the Galicia Symphony Youth Orchestra, where he began his orchestral training under teachers José Vicente Castelló, David Bushnell and Mike Garza.

In the field of chamber music, he takes part in major international festivals, such as the Santander Music and Academy Encounter, the MMCJ in Yokohama and the Mahler Academy in Bolzano.

He has won prizes in various international competitions, notably first prize and the audience award at the seventh edition of the International Wind Competition at the Moscow Conservatory, second prize at the Chieri International Competition 2015, and second prize ex aequo together with the audience award at the International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen in 2016. He was also a semi-finalist at the 65th ARD Music Competition in Munich, receiving the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize.

In the field of teaching, he collaborates with numerous festivals and courses giving masterclasses, notably the Hércules Brass in Celanova and the Numskull Festival in Caudete. He also teaches at the Galicia Symphony Youth Orchestra, training the new generation of brass players.

As a soloist, he has had the opportunity to perform Richard Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 with the Galicia Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495, with the Caserta Orchestra at the Autunno Musicale festival in Italy in 2017. He has also performed, alongside his colleague David Bushnell and the OSG, A. Rosetti's Concerto for Two Horns in E-flat major (attributed to J. Haydn).

In June 2022, he premiered, with the OSG, the concerto for horn and string orchestra by composer Carlos López García-Picos.

He recently had the opportunity to perform Benjamin Britten's Serenade, Op. 31, for tenor, horn and strings, alongside renowned British tenor Ian Bostridge and the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Roberto González Monjas.