Production and activity
Work
Editing, technology, heritage, performance and creation of cultural projects.
Editing and editorial production
- EPSA Publishing · 2006–present. First employee, helping to establish the publishing house: FileMaker databases, website administration and digitisation of administrative records.
- Hundreds of transcriptions from recordings and curation of tango and folklore scores. Repertoires of Leopoldo Federico, Ramón Ayala, Oscar Alem, Remo Pignoni, Hermanos Flores, Ramiro Gallo, Juan Falú, Carlos Moscardini and Diego Schissi, among others.
- Freelance editing for composers, among them Eligio Vila, whose work I have edited almost in its entirety.
- Editorial Herder · Barcelona. Editorial production and layout of publications.
Technology and portals
- Orchestra programmes · Ministry of Culture, Argentina. Development and administration of portals, libraries of materials, scores and audiovisual documentation for conductors, teachers and ensembles.
- BCN Barcelona. Digital services company together with Fernando Prats: web design and other digital services.
- EPSA. Administration of the publishing website since its creation and organisation of digital resources.
- Clarín · Guitarras del Mundo. Coordination of the festival blog.
Heritage and libraries
Carlos García Archive
Recovering the music and making it available for performance: designing the team’s workflow from manuscript to public performance.
- Digitisation of manuscripts
- Digital notation
- Score editing by specialists
- Performance by orchestras
Ibero-American Virtual Library
Consultancy and library work for Iberorquestas Juveniles through the Argentine Ministry of Culture: management of the collection and proposals for improving its resources.
Performance, arrangements and music copying
Professional concert career from 1986 to 2017. I began in Vigo with my teacher Antonio Uxío Mallo, giving lecture-recitals to introduce audiences to music through the Agrupación Guitarrística Galega. Winner of the Concurso de Interpretación Cidade de Vigo before moving to Barcelona.
Between 1990 and 2007 I earned my living mainly as a performer, as a soloist and chamber musician, working between Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Editorial and technical work was occasional during this period. Concerts in Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Peru, Cuba, Uruguay, Guatemala, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Arrangements for guitar, chamber ensembles and guitar orchestras; work as a copyist and preparation of scores for performers and ensembles.
Appearances at the Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Cuba, the Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Uruguay, Las Piedras Cantan and several editions of Guitarras del Mundo.
Ensembles and conducting
- Dúo Gótico and Trío Gótico · Spain and Argentina. Founding member and performer alongside Francisco Gamallo, with Gustavo Margulies completing Trío Gótico. Concerts, recordings and record production.
- Duo with Rogério Souza · Argentina. Collaboration with the Brazilian guitarist and composer, including a joint performance at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in 2017. We also performed as the featured duo with the Ensamble de Guitarras de Quilmes, playing works by Rogério.
- Ensamble de Guitarras de Quilmes · Argentina. Founding, training, arrangements and conducting; production of concerts, recordings and cultural activity during my time leading the ensemble.
- Barcelona Guitar Ensemble · orchestra and quartet · Spain. Founding, arrangements and conducting. Concerts in Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Instituto Cervantes and Las Piedras Cantan.
- Luthier Guitar Ensemble · Spain. Created at the Escola d’Arts Musicals Luthier as a chamber music workshop: from a group of soloists to the orchestra’s debut concert within a year.
La vida breve
Manuel de Falla · Barcelona Guitar Ensemble. Arrangement and conducting: Ignacio López.
Festivals and cultural management
From a group of musicians to a festival
Bringing together performers, teachers and students; forming an orchestra; preparing repertoire and taking it to the stage. Work with the Ensamble de Quilmes led to concerts, appearances at festivals and competitions, works dedicated to the ensemble and its own festival at the Sala Verdi in Bernal.
Organisation, production and filming of performances by Juan Falú, Quique Sinesi, Carlos Moscardini, Víctor Villadangos, Elías Esper and Rogério Souza, whose performance closed the series.
Festival de Guitarra de La Costa
Two editions with the Trío Gótico · Miramar, 1995–1996.
Discography
My albums
Collaborations and appearances
Productions for other artists
- Bien tanguero · Aníbal Arias and Osvaldo Montes Artistic production.
- Una guitarra para Gardel · Aníbal Arias Artistic production and digital editing.
Television and audiovisual
Appearances on television programmes: La Botica del Ángel, Mareco and others.
Teaching
- ESMUC. Masterclasses in advanced notation for composition students.
- Escola d’Arts Musicals Luthier. Teaching and chamber music through the creation of an orchestra.
- Barcelona · 1988–1991. Music outreach programme in schools.
- Peru. Masterclasses, lectures and concerts at guitar and contemporary music festivals.
- Orchestra programmes and Becas Martha Argerich. Training in notation, editing and digital tools for musicians and teachers.