Born & raised in London, UK (1996) in the heart of a Latin American family of artists, Tobías's curiosity to build and play with space developed through lego blocks. Soon after he discovered that his same passion for shaping space and time could be achieved through music.

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Tobías has lived and studied in the UK and in Mexico developing a career professionally as a composer, sound artist, educator and cultural agent. In Yucatan, Mexico he began his formal studies in piano with profesor Alberto Alvarez & Marielí Sosa and with Arturo Gastelum in the state of Michoacán. In 2013, he began studying composition at the Yucatán Superior School of Arts under the tutelage of Dr. Javier Álvarez and Mtro. Erik Baqueiro. In 2015, he began his formal studies in composition at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with Mtro. Leonardo Coral, and later in 2019 with Dra. Gabriela Ortíz and electroacoustics with Dr. Jorge David García. In 2022 he studied orchestration abroad at King’s College London under the tutelage of Dr. Ed Nesbit. In 2023 He became beneficiary of the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Chair of Musical Composition, in which he studied composition and orchestration with the maestro.

His music has been performed in Mexico, UK, Canada, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. As a creative mind he has dedicated himself to the composition of solo, chamber and orchestral music as well as electroacoustic music and sound design in an eclectic manner. He has received funding and grants for artistic creation from various institutions such as: State grant for artistic creation from the secretariat of culture “PECDA Yucatán 2018”, Grant for Cultural Agents, “Sound resilience 2020” Category: Composers from the Culture & Music department of UNAM, State grant for young creators from the secretariat of culture of the city of Merida 2024.

His work has been awarded in several national and international competitions: The 2016 Accordion Composition Competition "Wind Box - Eva Zöllner" supported by Goethe-Institut México. (Mexico City, MX), Junior finalist at the 2018 Antonin Dvorak International Composition Competition (Prague, CZ), 1st place at the 2019 Composition Competition "Music of Seismicity UNAM" (CDMX, MX), 1st place at the 2020 Composition Competition for Saxophone UNAM Faculty of Music (Mexico City, MX), Honorific mention at the 2020 Yucatán State Composition Competition "Daniel Ayala Pérez" Category: Concert Music (Yucatán, MX), among others. Most recently he has received 1st prize of “Totem Electroacoustic - 2nd Edition 2025” in Montréal.

He has also garnered experience in the field of artistic production as promoter, technician and organizer of concerts, music festivals, museum exhibits and other artistic oriented ventures. He has worked for interdisciplinary projects such as Cygnus, ensemble of electric swans 2019 (Lucerne, SZ) as well as the exhibit “Blue roads” Reinterpretation of the Art heritage of the State of Yucatan (Yucatán, MX): Sound Design & Music, 2019. Also as producer and multichannel technician for institutions such as the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City for exhibits from artists Nicolás Jaar, Alva Noto and Leslie García.

He has participated in the production of festivals and for artistic institutions such as the Centre for Digital Arts in Mexico, the Mérida International Brass Festival, Yucatán Jazz Festival and the UNAM Faculty of Music Festival for Mexican New Music "Aires". He has also worked as a researcher and speaker at colloquiums such as the National Forum of Musical Research of CENIDIM 2020, with the work "Analysis of the repertoire of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2006-2019)". He graduated in music composition at the UNAM Faculty of Music with the dissertation: "Overview of technologies for music creation in academic composition".