Founder and artistic director of Música Temprana, ensemble that perform early repertoire from Latin America and Spain.
He is a multifaceted artist, who has gone through the multiple sides of music. He has started as a singer, popular music guitarist and trumpet player in Argentina. He has played in the orchestra of the Soviet Circus, the Symphony Orchestra of Rosario and the Promusica Ensemble of the same city. Later he moved to The Netherlands, where he has developed as a composer, baroque guitarist, singer, percussionist and author of a book about ancient Peruvian music. He has made radio programs and given lectures on topics of his studies.
He moved in 1989 to The Netherladns where he studied at The Conservatorium of Amsterdam Choir Conducting with Daniel Reuss, Paul van Nevel and Jos van Veldhoven; and later Composition with Daan Manneke.
Leading Música Temprana he made seven CD recordings, TV & Radio presentations, tours in Europe and South and North America.
In addition to Música Temprana, as a baroque guitarist, singer and percussionist, he has been linked to several renowned ensembles such as Capella Amsterdam, La Sfera Armoniosa, Ensemble Elyma, L’Arppegiatta, Anthonello (Japan) and Nuovo Aspetto (Germany).
He conducted several Operas, as La liberazione di Ruggiero by Francesca Caccini, Gli Amori d’Apollo et di Daphne by Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas and The Fairy Queen, the staged Madrigal Comedy Il Festino by Banchieri and the Ensaladas by Mateo Flecha.
He is regularly guest conductor of different musical formations, like the National Youth Choir in the Netherlands, the Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra of the Consevatorium of Amsterdam and the Japanish ensemble Contraponto.
During the opening of the Early Music Fstival of Utrecht in 2005, he conducted the 40-voices motet Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis.
He is guest conductor the North Italian musical organisation Gli Invaghiti, where he conducted Oratorios and Cantatas by J.S. Bach.
He teaches Polyphony and Early Notation at the Royal Conservatorium of The Hague, and is guest teacher in the Conservatories of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Tilburg, Leipzig and Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires and the University Music School of Rosario.
In the International Choral Conducting Course Kurt Thomas, in The Netherlands, he teaches Early Music and Gregorian Chant.
His compositions are in general vocal works, like Insomnio, composed for the Dutch Students Choir and the director Daniel Reuss; Vidalita, for the Dutch National Children Choir and In Memoria, for the Dutch National Youth Choir. In 1998 he composed Letters 1, for the Tokio Yosei Choir
Under his name is the authorship of the book Bailes, Tonadas y Cachuas – The music of the Codex Trujillo del Perú (Editorial Deuss Music, The Hague)
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