Piano Composer & Arranger

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: I've not worked with any famous person of the musical scene, because I'm almost unknown at this moment. But I feel very proud about some of my last compositions.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I'm composing my own first piano album, "The Search".

Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

A: Not yet!

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: For piano, obviously analog is the best. Nothing better than a great grand piano. But digital gives you a bunch of possibilities which are harder to get with analog.

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: To achieve what they want and what they need.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: It makes me happy and feel realized. I would love to spend the whole day making music.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: They just want to know if I can do what they need, and I just tell them that they will have to decide that by themselves. But for that they must listen to my work.

Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

A: Mmm, hard question. People usually think this is easy to do, but inspiration is something you cannot force, at least not always. You can have a good day or a bad day. It's nearly imposible to make something great every day.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Nothing special.

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: It's easy to work with me; you tell me what you want and I send you a sample. If you like it, we go on. If you don't like it, I will send you another one. At the end you will like it, that's for sure.

Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

A: Grand piano, flamenco guitar, drums... and a clarinet (I don't know how to play it but I would have a life to learn it!)

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I've been playing music since I was a teenager; I learned to play the drums by myself, with two sticks and some bottles in my parents house, then I got to my music teacher at school and he could't believe that I could play the drums without having played them never. Since then I've played techno music as a DJ, flamenco guitar, classical piano, and now I like to compose in my own style.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Tonal, melodious and evocative.

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: Nobuo Uematsu, he's my favorite composer of this era, because he is able of doing all kind of stuff, from baroque to ragtime music. I love his melodies!

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Work, work, and hard work.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: Piano contemporary music, always tonal music.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: I think I'm good recreating the style of another composers and re-arranging other melodies.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I like telling stories with music, and evocate different emotions.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Depends, for transcribing, I just listen to the song calmly and transcribe it while playing it on my piano; for arranging, I listen to the song a few times and try to find the basic elements of it and the most important parts. Then I sit on my piano and try to make the best piano arrangement I can do. And for composing... that's different! Inspiration comes at any moment, that's why I always have a little staff book with me. A melody can come to my mind at any moment. Other times I feel inspired by another songs, and other times I just sit on my piano and improvise until something cool shows up.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I'm using a Kawai KDP90, Cubase and a few piano VST's (Steinway most of the time).

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: I love the work of Nobuo Uematsu; he's a japanese composer who made the music for the Final Fantasy games for a long time. I also love "classical" composers as Chopin or Bach. But inspiration comes from everywhere, I use to listen to a lot of different music.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: I usually do three different things: 1-Transcribing piano music (music that doesn't have a published score); 2-Arrange orchestral music and convert it into piano music; 3-Compose Piano Music.