Bogotá, 1976. He debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2015 as Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, later returning as Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro and again in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

He studied at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and in New York with Armen Boyagian. He is winner of Operalia 2001, Pavarotti Competition 1995 and Toti dal Monte 2004 among others. At the invitation of Plácido Domingo he was part of the Washington National Opera’s youth program.

He has sung in the operas of Washington, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Dallas, Montpellier, Treviso, Bielefeld, Bogotá, Santiago, Teatro Real de Madrid, Palau de les Arts de Valencia, Maestranza de Sevilla, ABAO, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro de la Zarzuela, among many others.

He has sung alongside Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Pons, Martha Senn, Samuel Ramey, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kauffmann and Lise Davidsen among many others.

He has been directed by Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Andrés Orozco Estrada, Lina Gonzalez-Granados, Leonard Slarkin, Josep Pons, Christophe Rousset among others.

The stage has been directed by Tito Capobianco, Frank Corsaro, Kasper Holten, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, Lluis Pasqual and Paco Azorín among others.

He has recorded Mahler’s 8th Symphony (EMI), Verdi’s Requiem (MTM) and the role of Pistol in Falstaff (Belair classiques) among others.

This season he returns to the Liceu to sing Un Ballo in Maschera and to the Real Theater in Madrid to sing Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.