He began his musical education with Prof. Leonela Villa in Colombia and, in 1991, went on to Vienna’s Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst to study with Professors Margarita Lilova (vocals), Curt Equiluz and Charles Spencer (Lied and oratorio), and Curt Malm (scenic interpretation). He won the Andrés Segovia Prize the interpretation of Spanish music in Santiago de Compostela (1991), 1st Prize at the International Hilde Zadek Singing Contest (2000) and 1st Prize, Gold Medal and Grand Prix at the Maria Callas Singing Competition. Since 1996, he has given regular concerts in Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Norway, the US and Japan. He has sung in operas and operettas by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Martinu and other composers. He has been very active also as a concert and oratorio singer, appearing at the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Pleyel Concert Hall in Paris, the Osloer Philharmonie, the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, the Megaro Musikis in Thessaloniki, and the Cologne Philharmonic Hall. He has participated in the recording of Martinu’s The Greek Passion (National Radio and Television of Austria) as Nikolio, and in Lucia di Lammermoor as Arturo with Edita Gruberova (Nightingale Records).