BIOGRAPHY
2025 Composer-in-Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, USA
2023 Award Winner for Best Experimental Short Film, Poombukar Independent Film Festival, India
2021 Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, Bogliasco Study Center for Arts and Humanities, Italy
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Wellington British International College, Tianjin, China
2020 Selected Artist-in-Residence, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Viborg Kunsthal – Riddergade AIR, Denmark
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Archús Studio, Reykjavik, Iceland
2019 First Prize, Chrónos International Call for Music Scores, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA
2019 Honorable Mention, International Call for Works, Canadian Music Centre
2016 Guest Lecturer, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Kolsstaðir Art Centre, Iceland
2015/2018 Visiting Professor of Theory of Music and Composition, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico
2012 Honorable Mention, Visual Art Celeste Prize, Italy
2011 Seibutsu Art and Music Studio, Italy
2010 Composer-in-Residence, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio International Center, Italy
2009 Composer-in-Residence, OMI International Musicians Residency, New York, USA
2009 Dean, Faculty of Digital Music Production Engineering, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico
2008 Full Professor of Theory of Music, Sociology of Music, and Experimental Music, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico
2006 Composer-in-Residence and Guest Researcher, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan – Canon Foundation
2005 Composer-in-Residence, Conservatorio de Las Rosas, Morelia, Mexico
2005 Prizewinner, ZEITKLANG International Orchestral Composition Competition, Vienna, Austria
2004 Laureate Artist, UNESCO-Aschberg Artists Program, Paris, France
2003 Master’s Degree Thesis: Learning Strategies of Italian Pronunciation for Opera Singers, University of Venice, Italy
2003 Fellowship in Musicology, The Swedish Institute at Svenska Rikskonserter, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Composer-in-Residence, EMS – Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Teacher of Experimental Musichoreography for Children, Keré Youth Education Centre, Catania, Italy
2002 Laureate Artist, Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, France
2002 Composer-in-Residence, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Zaragoza, Spain
2002 Honorable Mention, EMS Prize International Text-Sound Composition Competition, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Visiting Artist, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK
2000 Fellowship in Dance Notation and Contemporary Choreology, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK
1998 Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities, University of Catania, Italy – Graduation Thesis: A Theoretical and a Personal Artistic Contribution to Japanese Butoh Contemporary Dance
1995 Master’s Degree in Piano, Catania Conservatory of Music, Italy
1994 Fellowship in Composition, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
