2025 Artistic Excellence Award – Connecticut Office of the Arts (USA)
2025 Artistic Director – José Ignacio International Jazz Festival (Uruguay)
2025 Juror – Rhode Island State Council on the Arts – Make Art Grant Program 2025 Juror – National Awards of Uruguay (Music)
2024 Cultural Ambassador Designation – Ministry of Culture, Uruguay
2024 Artist Respond Award – Connecticut Office of the Arts (USA)
2024 Paul Harris Fellow – Rotary International
2024 Juror – National Music Awards of Uruguay (Classical Composition)
2023 Grammy Winner – Best Latin Jazz Album (Producer)
2022 Majestic Excellence Award – Excellence Piano Awards

International Competition (Europe)
2021 Illustrious Citizen – City of Montevideo, Uruguay
2021 Horacio Ferrer Award – First recipient, presented by the

VIce Presidency of Uruguay
2021 New Works Grant Award – Queens Council on the Arts (New York)
2020 Grammy Winner – Latin Grammy “Best Tango Album” (Quartet)
2019 Grammy Winner – Latin Grammy “Best Instrumental Album” (Solo Piano) 2019 New Works Grant Award – Queens Council on the Arts (New York)
2019 American Prize in Composition – 3rd Place
2018 American Prize in Composition – Finalist

2018 Rotary Club Uruguay – Medal of Honor
2017 New Works Grant Award – Queens Council on the Arts (New York)
2017 Grammy Nominee – Latin Grammy “Best Instrumental Album”
2016 Grammy Nominee – Latin Grammy “Best Contemporary Classical Composition”
2015 ACE Award – “Best Show of the Year” (Tango Lovers Show / Music Director)
2014 Steinway Artist – Designation by Steinway & Sons
2014 Grammy Nominee – Latin Grammy “Best Contemporary Classical Composition”
2013 New Music USA Award
2013 Con Edison Composers Residence Award
2012 Grammy Nominee – Latin Grammy “Best Contemporary Classical Composition”
2012 Great Uruguayan Musicians Award – Teatro Solís
2007 Declared of National and Cultural Interest “Pintando Tango” – Government of Uruguay

2006 New York Film and Video Festival

Composer of the award-winning Uruguayan film “La Cáscara”
2001 Independent Music Awards – Semifinalist with Manolo Badrena and John Benítez

1999 Winner of the Europe Jazz International Contest

Belgian Artistic Promotion Award
1997 Professional Achievement Scholarship – Berklee College of Music

1997 Professional Music Achievement Award – Berklee College of Music

1996 Best Composer at Berklee College – Among the Top 10 in 30 years

1994 OAS (Organization of American States) Scholarship

Full two-year scholarship at Berklee