He began his musical studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Sabadell, where he pursued piano studies with Glòria Peig i Sabater. Later, he continued his studies in harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Benet Casablancas and Josep Soler, and orchestral conducting with Salvador Mas, at the conservatories of Badalona and Barcelona, respectively.

He has received training in choral conducting from masters such as Manuel Cabero, Lluís Vila, Pierre Cao, Laszlo Heltay, Josep Prats, Johan Duijck, and especially, Eric Ericson, in Sweden, during the 1995-1996 academic year.

He is the author of an extensive catalogue of vocal and instrumental music.

Among his most celebrated and widely performed compositions worldwide are:

• Songs for children's choir written between 1983 and 1996.


• Sanctus-Benedictus (1992).


• Salve Regina (2001).


• Te Deum (2002), for mezzo-soprano, choir, and orchestra.


• The choral-orchestral fantasy El mirador (2003).


• The suite for cobla, Trencant el gel (2006).


• The oratorio Veni Creator Spiritus, for four soloists, choir, and orchestra, premiered at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona in 2016.


• The cantata El motí (2008).


• The work composed in 2018 for voice and piano based on Basque folklore: Lau Haizetara (“Als quatre vents”).


• Missa Sagrada Família (2019), which earned him the Clavé Award from the Clavé Choral Federation for the best choral composition of the year in Catalonia.

He is the director of the Coro Lieder Càmera and has also served as the principal conductor of the Orfeó Català (1998-2016), the Cor de Cambra from Palau de la Música Catalana (2011-2016), and the Coro de Radiotelevisión Española (2007-2010).

He has collaborated sporadically with ensembles such as the Coro Nacional de España, the Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Radio Choir of Sweden, the Orfeón Donostiarra, the World Youth Choir (2010 and 2019), the Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela, the Orchestra of Radiotelevisión Española, the Orquestra Barroca Catalana, the Orquestra Clàssica Nacional d’Andorra, the Academia 1750, the Symphony Orchestra of Vallès, and the Symphony Orchestra of Málaga.

As a choir instructor, he has worked with some of the most prominent conductors on the international scene, including Daniel Barenboim, Daniele Gatti, Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Marc Minkowski, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, René Jacobs, Lorin Maazel, Helmuth Rilling, and Franz Brüggen, among others.

Since 2005, he has been a professor of choral conducting at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. He also regularly gives workshops, seminars, and masterclasses in various European and Latin American cities.

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