Education
Between 1991 and 1999, he researched and studied under famous avant-garde composers such as György Ligeti, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Metzger, Mathias Espahlinger, Mauricio Kagel, Franco Donatoni, and Brian Ferneyhough.
Between 1991 and 1999, he researched and studied under famous avant-garde composers such as György Ligeti, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Metzger, Mathias Espahlinger, Mauricio Kagel, Franco Donatoni, and Brian Ferneyhough.
Born and raised in Madrid, he has been musical since an early age. Interested in discovering new musical languages, he entered the field of electroacoustic music In 1993 he co-founded the Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatorio Padre Soler, where he worked as a composer until 1996.
That same year, the CDMC (Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music) granted Alex a scholarship that allowed him to research and work in the laboratories of the center.
In 1996 he became the director of the Conservatorio Maestro Alonso, in San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain, and held this position until 2004.
He attended the Madrid Royal Conservatory, where he studied piano, orchestration and composition, and he graduated in 1996 with the Flora Prieto Award in harmony and composition. A year later, he created the music score for the film Viure sense por (A Life Without Fear), directed by Carlos Perez Ferré and produced by In Vitro Films, for which he was awarded the Best Film Soundtrack Award at the Mostra Cinema Valencia. Foreign "El Secreto de Puente Viejo", Alex received a nomination for Best Music in the XV edition of the Iris Awards of the Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes de Televisión de España.
