BIOGRAPHY Born in Santiago de Compostela (Galiza), on September 8th, 1977. He began his musical studies at age 4 in the Historic Conservatory of Santiago, where the method employed for beginners was Kódaly -a way of learning that emphasizes creativity and intuition above all-. Abe continued his career at the jazz school "Estudio escola de música”, also in Compostela. Solfege was tought with standard jazz songs so he discovered there that improvisation could be the highest expression of this art form called music. In 1995 he went to Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA), where he earned a Cum Laude Degree in Jazz Composition and Piano Performance in 1999. In 2000 he came back to the city he always wanted to be back to: Santiago de Compostela.