He was born in Puno (Peru), where at the age of five he began his guitar studies. He studied at the National Conservatory of Music (Peru), being a student of Nelly Borda, Jorge Herrera and Óscar Zamora. Upon graduation, he obtained the «2015 National Conservatory of Music Award».
In 2020 he obtained the degree of «Master of Music» at the Hochschule für Musik «Hanns Eisler» Berlin (Germany), where he studied guitar with prof. Dr. Daniel Göritz and had as teachers Wayne Foster-Smith (chamber music), Ralf Sauerbrey (vocal technique), among others. As part of his training, he has participated in projects directed by Raphael Alpermann, Manuel Nawri, Justin Doyle and Andrea Tober.
Its repertoire encompasses works from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary periods. He has made numerous arrangements for choir, chamber ensembles, and lead guitar. He has extensive knowledge of traditional Peruvian popular music thanks to what he learned with his father, Leo Casas. He studied with a scholarship thanks to the «Deutschlandstipendium».
He is selected as «Young Value» at the XXII International Guitar Festival – ICPNA 2011. In 2015 he was guitarist and lecturer in the exhibition «Guitarra en Concierto» about Manuel María Ponce’s «Concierto del Sur» at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Lima, Peru. In 2019 he played as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra «Ciudad de Trujillo» (Peru) under the conduction of Carlos Johnson at the International Trujillo Chamber Music Festival 2019, where he also taught master classes. He has given master classes and conferences at various music academies in Peru.
He has received master classes from Judicäel Perroy, Eduardo Fernández, Jorge Caballero, Stephen Goss, Sergio Assad, Gabriel Estarellas, Vladislav Blaha, Juan Carlos Arancibia, Gonzalo Manrique and Ernesto Mayhuire, among others.
He has taken part in early music workshops where he learned to perform figured bass. He was a member of the Ensemble for Early Music of the National Conservatory of Music and the Artífex Ensemble for Early Music, with which he played the National Children’s Choir of the Peru on its tour through Northern Peru (2013) and soloist of the National Choir at the XII Festival of Early Music (2014) and accompanied Juditha Triumphans in Vivaldi’s opera (2014). As a member of the “Ciudad de Lima” orchestra, he took part in the production of Don Giovanni and Marina (2012).
He studies orchestral conducting with Marnix Willem Steffen. In 2017 he conducted the «Philarmogeek» chamber orchestra at the «Comic Day» festival. He was a member (2016-2018) and guest director of the “Ensamble de Instrumentos Tradicionales del Perú” of the “Escuela Nacional de Folklore José María Arguedas».
He was also a music teacher and choir conductor at the «Nuestra Señora de la Sabiduría» school. As conductor, he participated in national festivals. The choir’s intercultural pedagogical approach was highlighted in a report from the “Clandestinos” program of the iPe channel (Institute of Radio and Television of Peru). The repertoire included Peruvian songs in Quechua, Aymara and Muchik as well as songs from South America, England, Germany and France.
Since 2007 he has been working as a volunteer with the Catholic Church in the formation and direction of the Choir “San Juan Bautista de la Capilla de Huascata (Lima). He composed the song with which the “San Juan Bautista” Choir won the Competition for the creation of the Hymn of the second diocesan youth meeting “VIVE II”, organized by the Diocese of Chosica (2018).