Antonio Fernández Ros

Born in Mexico City Antonio Fernández Ros studied composition at the National School of Music. He obtained his bachelor degree in composition at the Mannes College of Music in New York City and did post-graduate studies at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. A scholarship from the French government enabled him to pursue studies in computer music and new technologies in Paris where he worked at the Centre Pompidou's IRCAM , at the Groupe de Recherche Musical and with I. Xenakis at the Sorbonne. From 1990 to 1995 he headed the Computer Music Lab at the National School of Music in Mexico City. He has received twice grants from the National Council for the Arts and Culture of Mexico. In 1995 the Rockefeller Foundation awarded him an artist grant. From 1995 to 1996 he was invited on full scholarship to FABRICA the Benetton arts center in Italy headed by photographer Oliviero Toscani. The music of Antonio Fernández Ros has been played at New York's Merkin Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Northwestern U. Contemporary Music Series, Buffalo's North American New Music Festival, the Electronic Music Society Festival in Stockholm, Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy and by ensembles such as the Mexico City Philharmonic and the Brooklyn Philharmonic under the direction of Lukas Foss.