Venezuelan / Spanish musician, ethnomusicologist and teacher, now living in Tenerife, Canary Islands. My parents lost their country, Spain, I lost mine, Venezuela, but we try to keep moving in good spirits.I have raining in Western classical, jazz and Latin music, and enjoy making music with other musicians when they are not too egocentric or neurotic… Teaching has been my main activity.Avid reader, art lover, enthusiast cook. Coming originally from the Latin American left, after continuos disappointments from 20th century failed utopias, I find myself today more at ease with the political center. Present-day China, my wife’s country, is not my cup of tea either.