I was born into the small Sefardic Community of Gibraltar, located at the southernmost tip of Europe in South Spain. My Father taught me Flamenco and Classical music on the guitar when I was very young and after high school I moved to Israel to study at an Ulpan and to live on Kibbutz Be'erot Yitzchak for about a year. After Kibbutz I wanted to travel through Israel to experience the land, I later enrolled in Yeshivat Ohr Sameach in Jerusalem to study Torah for a few years. During this time I worked as a musician too and performed in bands with Yehuda Glantz, Yosef Levy, Yitzchak Attias and many others, and toured throughout the country. Around this time I was very fortunate to meet Moshe Yess z'l, Moshe became my guitar teacher and a mentor to me and my cousin, percussionist Yitzchak Attias, we performed with Moshe for several years. Moshe was a great inspiration to Yitzchak and me, he spent hours and hours teaching us about music and the art of performance, crafts he had honed through years of concerts and touring, he was happy to teach me everything he knew on the guitar and really took us under his wing and continued to give unconditionally.
I started to feel like I wanted to get deeper into composition and improvisation so I enrolled at the Jerusalem Academy of Music where I received a full scholarship and got to study with some of Israel's great Classical and Jazz maestros like Vladimir Shkolnick, Nachum Perpekovitch and Danny Godfried. After 3 years at the Academia, I decided to come to the states to continue to study Jazz and improvisation, I received a scholarship to come to Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts where I graduated with a degree in Film scoring and where I got to meet and play with many of the amazing musicians that I continue to play with today. I moved to Brooklyn New York about 17 years ago and can't say enough about how living in this city has enriched me creatively. Lately I've been enjoying playing solo concerts where I play Guitar, Soprano Saxophone and percussion and use a looping machine to record myself in real time to improvise songs and textures.
I started to feel like I wanted to get deeper into composition and improvisation so I enrolled at the Jerusalem Academy of Music where I received a full scholarship and got to study with some of Israel's great Classical and Jazz maestros like Vladimir Shkolnick, Nachum Perpekovitch and Danny Godfried. After 3 years at the Academia, I decided to come to the states to continue to study Jazz and improvisation, I received a scholarship to come to Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts where I graduated with a degree in Film scoring and where I got to meet and play with many of the amazing musicians that I continue to play with today. I moved to Brooklyn New York about 17 years ago and can't say enough about how living in this city has enriched me creatively. Lately I've been enjoying playing solo concerts where I play Guitar, Soprano Saxophone and percussion and use a looping machine to record myself in real time to improvise songs and textures.
