Luis Ianes is a guitarist, composer and improviser born in 1974 in San Juan, Argentina, into a family from Uruguay. He started playing acoustic and electric guitar as a teenager playing folk, rock and popular music as a self-taught. After a couple of years attending a local music conservatory he moved to the US in 1994 where he completed his BM in Classical Guitar at CCM (College Conservatory of Music) University of Cincinnati. He later attended graduate school at CCM focusing on guitar and composition. He was part of the CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble and Cincinnati Guitar Ensemble as well as participating in different projects ranging from Latin, songwriting, country and rock, as well as theater and dance projects. He moved to New York in 2003 where he focuses and works mainly in improvised and experimental music. He founded and co-led Parias Ensemble a group that approached and lived within the fringes of styles and genres always looking for new possibilities between the written and the open improvised compositions. He also led Otra Gente Quartet. He plays, records and shares different musical projects with numerous present and past musicians and bands like GAUSS, Mentolados Durruti, Paula Shocron, Juan Pablo Arredondo, Pascal Niggenkemper, Cecilia Quinteros, Andrew Drury, Frantz Loriot, Carlo Costa, Jonathan Moritz, Jessica Pavone, Vasko Dukovsky, John O'Brien, Daniel Reyes, Marta Topferova, etc,