Three - Time GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER (2023, 2020 & 2019) with six nominations for "Best Tango Album", "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" and "Best Instrumental Album", Steinway Artist, Two-Time Gold Medal Award Winner at Global Music Awards, ACE Awardee 2015, Uruguayan/American pianist and composer, based in New York City. Declared "Illustrious Citizen" in Uruguay, 2021. He has performed worldwide, collaborated and recorded with artists as diverse as: Yo-Yo Ma, Bette Midler, Eddie Gomez, John Patitucci, Robert Duvall, Christian McBride, Mark Egan, Manolo Badrena, Paquito D'Rivera and the 12 cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic among many others. With 34 albums as a solo artist, he received the 2013 Con Edison Composers Residency Award, a 2013 New Music USA Grant, and a “Belgian Artistic Promotion Award” at Europe Jazz Contest 1999. He directed and performed in almost every major Tango show in the US, including Forever Tango, Tango Fire, Tango Lovers, Tango Buenos Aires and Eternal Tango Orchestra among others. He is a former Jazz Department Director at the Harbor Conservatory, in addition to giving Master Classes at Juilliard, Oberlin, Eastman, Yale University and permanent faculty member at the Stowe Tango Music Festival.