Born in Montevideo Uruguay, 1959. Immigrated to Israel in 1974. Composer and classic guitarist. Graduated the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music, studied with Y.Sadai, M.Seter, S.Natra, L.Shidlowsky. Rubens’ compositions have been performed since 1976 in Israel and abroad including at the ISCM festival in 1992. He has won several prizes, among them ‘Akum’ prize (1992) and The Priminster Prize (1995). His music is published at ‘Mali’ - The Israeli Composers’ League Publication, and performed by many groups as: ‘Ensemble Modern’, Ensemble Oriol, the Israeli Philharmonic and others.