Puerto Rican composer, born in 1950, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He studied composition with Rafael Aponte-Ledée at the University of Puerto Rico. In 1978, he received a MM from the University of Michigan where he studied composition with H. Owen Reed, Jere Hutchinson, and David Liptack. He taught music at the University of Puerto Rico, in Rio Piedras. He served as president of the Associ. Nacional de Compositores Portorriqueños. Main works: Canción para un amigo, sop, va (1978); La rota voz del agua, sop, fl, gtr, vc (1982); Ceremoniales, orch (1984); El lago de los sueños, orch (1984-85); El libro de la memoria, gtr. (1988).