Music & Life

Spain, 1991. He started learning piano at the age of six, and at ten years old, he offered his first public recital at the 2001 ASTUS Gala - Great Hall of the Cartagena Tech University, along with his teachers and for over 600 attendants. At that moment, he was receiving private lessons from Santiago Casanova and Emmanuel Ferrer-Lalöe.

While attending classes at the respective conservatory and participating in several competitions and festivals, he started to be guided by Prof. Albert Attenelle (a classmate of Alicia de Larrocha and a pupil of Frank Marshall and Marcel Ciampi, who was a ward and a collaborator for Claude Debussy) at the age of 12, and finally mentored regularly by him at L’Escola de Música de Barcelona. Professor Attenelle made this decision after listening to him at the City of Murcia National Piano Prize. 

“For my dear Abraham, great pupil, with great affection” - Albert Attenelle’s autograph after a concert beside the violist and conductor Jesse Levine, Mediterranean International Music Festival in Cartagena 2005.

And at the same time, at the age of 15, he had the chance to set up a teaching - mentoring relationship with Prof. Aquiles delle Vigne (a pupil of Claudio Arrau and Georges Cziffra) at the I Orihuela International Forum.

Nevertheless, due to family reasons, he had refuse to Prof. delle Vigne’s proposal of attending his regular classes at the CODARTS in Rotterdam, in order to achieve a Bachelor's Degree there; instead, he decided to fulfill this program in 2007 at home, at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Murcia (Spain), where he graduated in 2011 with Honors (highest qualifications), under the guidance of Julián García (a collaborator for Charles Rosen’s works). Among his academic background there, he also achieved complementary studies of applied conducting with Ángel Martín Matute (an eventual public attendant to Gustavo Dudamel’s rehearsals). 

Despite having decided this steering change, he kept in touch with Prof. delle Vigne for several years of external specialization and postgraduate studies (2006-2012) throughout all Western Europe, that ended up finally with a “Diplôme de Perfectionnement” program at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Some of the advancements he experienced at that time was the proposal of playing and recording at the Sommerakademie im Mozarteum the complete Chopin’s Etudes op. 10 and the complete Liszt-Busoni “Grandes Études de Paganini”; and as well, the proposal for the Director of the Schola Cantorum to let him finish (after a secondary recital examination) his current academic degree program that same year. The director, in return, granted him as a gift a copy of the manuscript of Abel Decaux (the “French Schönberg”)'s arrangement on Chopin’s first étude.

“For my dear Abraham, great pupil, great pianist, great artist, great son” – Aquiles delle Vigne’s autograph on his book “Innermost journey of a pianist”, Paris 2010.

During these years, he has been awarded scholarships by the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, l’Escola de Música de Barcelona, Schola Cantorum of Paris (2009) and Universität Mozarteum of Salzburg (for several years, where he had the chance to offer a whole recital among all the scheduled performances). Some years later, after initial selection auditions, he was accepted to study with Prof. Arie Vardi at the Talent Master Music Masterclasses in Brescia/Verona (Italy) in 2015 - Talent Master Music School.

In spite of keeping up with this professional pathway, he as well decided to strengthen his academic development in his home country; therefore, he studied a Master's Degree in Teaching Training, and the next year, a Master's Degree in Musical Research, both of them at the University of Murcia. Then, he enrolled in a PhD's Degree program at the same university in 2014-2016, with a Thesis developed among the Department of Musical Pedagogy (Faculty of Education), Spanish literature (Faculty of Hispanic Philology) and History of Economics (Faculty of Economics). However, for work reasons, he dropped out and quit the program at the third last year.

He is mostly a boarder of Emmanuel Ferrer-Lalöe, Santiago Casanova, Albert G. Attenelle and Aquiles Delle Vigne. Aside from this, he has received classes and advice, both of them, from Claudio Martínez Mehner, Ramiro Sanjinés, Fabio Bidini, Leonel Morales, Boyan Vodenicharov, Piotr Paleczny, Guillermo González, Michel Béroff, Mikhail Voskresensky, Roland Pröll, Paul Badura-Skoda, Akiko Ebi, Arie Vardi, Vincenzo Scaramuzza's pupils, Oxana Yablonskaya, Josep Colom, Sir András Schiff and Alicia de Larrocha.

He has offered performances and recitals in several venues and halls in Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, and Austria, such as the International Festival in Segovia, International Auditorio “Víctor Villegas” in Murcia, PoliMúsica Hall in Madrid, Town Council in San Sebastián, International Forum in Orihuela, Sessione Senese per la Musica di Siena - invited by Edoardo Catemario, Mediterránea International Music Festival in Cartagena - Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (with the unconditional support of H.H. Princess Elena), Talent Master Music Festival Brescia, Accademia Musicale di Firenze, Palais des Congrès de Paris, Steinway & Maene Academy Hall, CODARTS, Mozarteum Max Schlereth Saal (old Grosses Studio), Wiener Saal and Grosser Saal- Salzburger Festspiele (Mozartwoche), among others.

He has played and collaborated with different orchestras, such as the Chamber Orchestra of Cartagena, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Murcia, the Castellón Symphony Orchestra… He is a chamber music partner of the Velcelli Duo, beside the cellist Gonzalo Meseguer.

He has been awarded top prizes at several national and international competitions, in Spain and abroad, such as Hazen Prize - Foundation Juan de Borbón, City of Murcia Prize, Preisträger Mozarteum Sommerakademie, Ad Libitum International Piano Competition, PCO International Piano Competition, World’s Best Musicians International Competition Warsaw... Playing for renown jury members, such as Pilar Bilbao, Mateusz Borowiak, Albert Attenelle, Josep Colom, Stanislav Pochekin, Dmitri Bashkirov or Aquiles delle Vigne.

He as well has recorded, either as a solo pianist or as a chamber music partner for regional radio channels in Spain (7RM and TVM), Spain RNE broadcasts, WKMT label (Piano Recording Studio) - London, VCHS Studio (becoming Carnegie Weill Hall Gala Competition Prize Winner), Petrichor Records - New York City.

He has been surrounded and had the chance to acquire advice, friendship and contact from well-known musicians, such as Yair Kless, Julius Berger, Yulianna Avdeeva, Joaquín Clerch, Gustavo Dudamel, Leo Brouwer and Edda Moser. Among his audience, he has played for former US VicePresident Daniel Quayle and speechwriter/presidential advisor Michael Johns.

Beyond the field of piano performance, he has also decided to complete his music background in some other tested activities. For this reason, meanwhile he has conducted several organizations, such as Masa Coral Tomás Luis de Victoria and Chamber String Ensemble CT, or co-operated as a pianist in the conduction of opera concerts along with great professionals, such as Fiorenza Ippolito (scenography conducting assistant to some Luciano Pavarotti’s operas). In the same way, very recently he has spread out his academic training by attending masterclasses from Guillermo Scarabino and Jukka-Pekka Saraste at the iClassical Academy - Sibelius Academy, where he stands as a featured artist on several platforms, along with other artists such as Jean-Bernard-Pommier, Amit Peled, Boris Berezovsky, David Geringas, András Schiff, Leonidas Kavakos, Mischa Maisky... He is as well an artist member of the Karajan Community, inside the  Karajan Institute, and also a Petrichor Records labeled artist.
Nonetheless, in order to deepen a little bit more into conducting and performing, he is also dedicated recently to composing. He has also belonged to several church musical groups, and has created different compositions and pieces for multiple ecclesiastical crews. He has indeed participated in the Vatican’s 2025 Iubilaeum Hymn competition in 2023.