He was born in Valladolid, where he began his musical studies, continuing them in Madrid with the person he considers his true mentor: Francisco Guerrero.

From the outset, he was drawn to musical formalization and the use of exogenous models from the scientific field in his compositional practice. However, he soon began expanding the field of interaction to include models from the visual arts, architecture, literature, and philosophy. In parallel, he has been developing a body of work around the concept he defines as “generative micro-instrumentation,” based on the idea of exploring the musical instrument at a microscopic level in order to extract from it both musical material and a possible syntax.

He received the Audience Award at the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels (2002). He was selected by the reading panel at IRCAM (2003/04), an institution where he has served as composer-in-residence on several occasions. In 2011, he was awarded the National Music Prize by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. In 2014, the Free State of Bavaria selected him as composer-in-residence at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg (Germany). He was also composer-in-residence at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin during the 2016/17 academic year. In 2025, he has been awarded the Happy New Ears Prize by the Hans und Gertrud Zender Foundation in collaboration with the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste and Musica Viva BR-Klassik of Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Festivals and concert series such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wien Modern, Musik der Zeit (Cologne), Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, MUSICA Strasbourg, ULTRASCHALL (Berlin), Festival ManiFeste (Paris), Festival d’Automne à Paris, and Rainy Days (Luxembourg), among others, have devoted monographic concerts to his music.

He has been regularly invited as a composition professor in international settings such as the Session de Composition at Royaumont (2012), Takefu International Music Festival (Japan, 2013), Manoury Composition Academy (MUSICA Festival, Strasbourg 2016), ManiFeste Academy (Paris 2017), Musikhochschule Lucerne (2017/18), and Impuls Academy (Graz 2019 and 2021).