Studied Composition at the Catholic University of Chile and Sonology at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (NL) His Compositions, that include pure electronic and electroacoustic mixed media with solo instruments and ensembles have been performed in Europe, North and South America in festivals such as Terza Prattica (NL), Primavera en La Habana (Cuba), Sonorities (Belfast, UK), "Synthese" (FR), Visiones Sonoras (MX), "Sonoimagenes" (AR), Montevideo Percussion Festival (URU), ICMC, NWEAMO (USA), Rumor"(NL), Punto Aparte (ES), venues like Paradiso (NL), Sucre Theater (EC), Muziekgebouw (NL), Colon Theater (COL) and have been selected and awarded at the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition of 2003 and 2004.
As a guitar player he has participated in several courses of Guitar Craft, a school founded by Robert Fripp, becoming part of various related guitar ensembles such as the Berlin Guitar Ensemble, the Buenos Aires Guitar Ensemble and The League of Crafty Guitarists. He has been invited to give lectures and do residences at Centre for Composers (Gotland, Sweden), North Texas University (Denton, USA), Republic University (Uruguay), Leuenburg Studios (Germany), Walter Maas Haus (NL), among others. His recent collaborations/projects include live electronics for dance, silent movies, technical coordination and performances with musicians like Richard Barrett, Keir Neuringer, Yutaka Makino, Insomnio Ensemble, Richard Craig and Frances-Marie Uitti.
He is founder and active member of The Electronic Hammer, a Computer and Percussion Music Ensemble devoted to the promotion, creation and diffusion of the music of the XXI century and of WireGriot, a duo of voice and electronics that seeks to (re)construct the repertoire for the media. Juan is currently a PhD candidate at the Leiden University of the Netherlands and the Orpheus Institute in Gent, Belgium with the topic a??Towards a performance practice of Computer Musica??. He has also been appointed as a joint researcher of the Orpheus Institute Research Center (ORCiM) to work on the topics of Notation and Creativity.