A PATH THROUGH MUSIC
I was born in Barcelona on 1980. My first piano was a tiny electric keyboard with two and a half octaves---it was a monodic device. In order to experience polyphony I invented all kinds of tricks: recording one voice and playing on top a second one, while singing a third one ... It was not a game nor an entertainment, but an urgency, a true need. Soon I struggled to find out a way to write down all those 'inventions'. I had no music teachers, and no one around me knew such mystery, so I had to spend long hours looking at the only printed music book there was in my house. After some weeks comparing the popular songs I knew, with those signs in the book, I thought I understood music notation (truth is that I made some slight miscalculations). Four years later I started my first music education, continuing to play and compose---for myself, as well as for the youth orchestra and two choirs I conducted in my teens. At the end of my teens I chose piano over conducting and composing. I was certain that piano will force myself to overcome bigger personal obstacles.
To my surprise I managed to complete my education at prestigious music centers abroad, under the guidance of respected mentors. Despite that fact, no such events did undermine the profound impact of those initial years---fully impregnated with limitations, invention and pure fascination.
My present and future time as an artist is nothing but an echo of those early steps: no efforts were addressed to impress or please anyone. Music never provoked a feeling of importance or exceptionality. Creativity and invention were the only ways to engage with my latent fascination for Life, and therefore Music. Ambition or talent were unknown concepts, and only emotional and intellectual honesty were guiding me along my path through Music.