composer

He was born in Lanzarote in May 1975, he began music studies on his native island before continuing them for a year in the United States. Subsequently, he received a scholarship from the Council of Lanzarote to study in London under the supervision of the pianist María Garzón. He obtained the diploma of Higher Teacher of Solfège, Music Theory, Transposition and Accompaniment, as well as those of Piano Teacher and Higher Teacher of Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Instrumentation at the Higher Music Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, studying with Milena Perisic, Carlos Puig and Miguel Ángel Linares, among others. He has attended different music specialisation courses, among which it is worth highlighting those taught by Samuel Adler Milena Perisic, Carlos Puig y Miguel Ángel Linares and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of La Laguna.

From a very early age, he has been closely linked to the organisation of the Lanzarote Visual Music Festival, created and run by his father, the artist Ildefonso Aguilar.

At the age of 20, he recorded Music for Los Jameos del Agua, released by GEO ediciones in 1996. In 2001 he released his second album La Tierra desde La Luna (Earth from the Moon), with original music for the short film of the same name by the Palma film-maker Mercedes Afonso. In 2004, in Lanzarote and Tenerife, he presented the audiovisual installation Almohadas, created in collaboration with Mayte Bethencourt, for which they published the CD-catalogue Dos Canciones de Cuna/Almohadas. In 2014 he released En el camino, an album composed together with Fabiola Socas. His latest releases are Minimal Soundscapes (2017), Wordless Conversations (2019) and Lanzarote, el sonido oculto (Lanzarote, the hidden sound) (2020), created together with Ildefonso Aguilar.

He has also participated in different recordings, notably including the project Undark. Pearl + Umbra by the Brit Russell Mills, released in 1999 by Bella Union Ltd. and the book-CD Sonidos para un Paisaje (Sounds for a Landscape) which contains the ambient music for the Volcano Route in Timanfaya National Park (Lanzarote).

He has composed ambient music for different public and private spaces, as well as original music for documentaries, advertising, short films, feature films, audiovisual installations and theatre and dance shows. He has been an organiser or a member of different music projects such as Supreme Sax&Brass Ensemble, Landscape Project, Lanave, Circular Ensemble and Major Tom Project, among others.

He has taught classes at the Professional Music Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and he has also taught at the Higher Music Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Higher Music Conservatory of the Canaries. He has given presentations and workshops linked to different aspects of music in different areas of the Canary Islands. His own works have been released in Germany, Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Cape Verde, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Spain, USA, France, Philippines, Indonesia, England, Reunion Islands, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia and Vietnam.

His latest projects carried out notably include music for the dance show Dulces Bestias (Sweet Beasts), winner of five Réplica awards, including Best Sound Space and released by the company Nómada at Teatro Leal de La Laguna, in a multi-award winning dance show Entomo, released at the Gran Teatro de La Habana (Cuba) for EA&AE, the music for the theatre piece Crimen (Crime), released at the TEA Tenerife Arts Space (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the sound installation El Rincón de los Secretos (The Corner of Secrets), presented at the CAAM (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), and the soundtrack of the documentary El Huído (The Fugitive), directed by Pablo Fajardo.

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