His music has been played internationally by several ensembles and soloists, including: The Riot Ensemble (UK), Quartetto Prometeo (Italy),  Latvian Radio Choir, Zeitfluss Ensemble (Austria), Platypus Ensemble (Austria), Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Aventure (Germany), Ensemble Chromoson (Austria/Italia), Ensemble XX Jahrhundert (Austria), East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (USA), Duo Dillon-Torquati (Italy), Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Rhythm Method Quartet (USA), Mise-En Ensemble (USA), L’arsenale Ensemble (Italy), Ensemble Reconsil (Austria), Antico Moderno Ensemble (USA), Richard Craig (UK), Haydée Schvartz (Argentina), Satoko Inoue (Japan), Nuntempe Ensamble (Argentina) and Ensamble Tropi (Argentina).
Also his music has been played at international music series and festivals like Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich, 2012); Wiener Konzerthaus (2017); MATA Festival (NYC, 2016), Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, 2017); Gustav Mahler Music Weeks (Dobbiaco, 2018); New Directions Festival (Sweden, 2014); Dark Music Days (Iceland, 2018); music@villaromana (Firenze, 2018); Musica in Prossimità (Pinerolo, 2022); Mise-en Festival (NYC, 2018); Forum Wallis (Switzerland, 2019); “XXIII Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de la Habana” (Cuba, 2009); musica aperta series (Winterthur, 2011); L’Imaginaire Festival (Strasbourg, 2013); Music Current (Ireland, 2021); Teatro Argentino de La Plata (2012); Bahia Actual (Argentina, 2016); Pu Joa Jornadas de Música Nueva (Paraguay, 2017); Teatro SODRE concert series (Montevideo, 2009);  Mínimo un Lunes (Buenos Aires, 2022); Festival Guitarras del Mundo (Argentina, 2017), among others.
Selected ‘Composer in Residence’ at the Artists in Residence Programm organized by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt Österreich) in cooperation with the KKA (Kultur Kontakt Austria) for 2016.

Awarded with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (for 2022, Italy) and the Fromm Foundation Composers Fellowship (USA, 2020).

He was selected Composer in Residence by The Riot Ensemble (UK) for the year 2015.

From 2007 to 2014 he worked as Assistant in Composition with Mariano Etkin at the National University of La Plata.

He received the “Diploma di Merito“ at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in 2014, award given by Salvatore Sciarrino.

Invited as guest professor and composer at the festival Pu Joa (Paraguay) on years 2016 and 2017.

Born in Argentina, growing up in Choele Choel.
Composition studies with Mariano Etkin, María Cecilia Villanueva and Salvatore Sciarrino. 

In the framework of different workshops, fellowships, residences and festivals for composers he attended classes with Salvatore Sciarrino, Georg Friedrich Haas, Linda Catlin Smith, Stefano Gervasoni, Tristan Murail, Michael Jarrell, David Lang, Joshua Fineberg, Lee Hyla, Michaël Lévinas, -and Toivo Tulev, among others.

One is too few, and two is only one possibility.

I write music and occasionally about music.

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