Antonio Fernández Ros

Antonio Fernandez Ros (Mexico City, 1961) is a Mexican composer of instrumental and electronic music as well of sound installations. He obtained his bachelor's degree in composition from the Mannes College of Music in New York City and did post-graduate studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Through a scholarship from the French government pursued studies in computer music in Paris, where he worked at the Centre Pompidou's IRCAM, at the Groupe de Recherche Musical and with Iannis Xenakis at The Sorbonne.

He has received three times grants from the National Council for the Arts and Culture of Mexico (FONCA). 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. In 1999 he was awarded by the Mexican Academy of Film with an Ariel Award for the music of the film Bajo California: El Límite del TiempoThe 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.