Agustí Fernández

With a perfectly based career and a well-deserved international reputation, Agustí Fernández is one of the Spanish musicians of major international projection and a world reference in the field of improvised music. Fernández has worked with famous musicians of the free improvisation scene like Peter Kowald, Derek Bailey, Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Mats Gustafsson, Joel Ryan and Peter Evans a.m.o. He is a member of the Blue Shroud Band, Mats Gustafsson NU Ensemble and Barry Guy New Orquestra. Up to the current date he has published more than 90 CDs.

Throughout his professional life, Agustí Fernández has received much recognition. His solo for piano Mutza presented in New York in 2007 was distinguished by the New York magazine AllAboutJazz as one of 10 best concerts from that year. The CD «Un llamp que no s’acaba mai» on PSI (Agustí Fernández, John Edwards and Mark Sanders) has been distinguished by Allaboutjazz as one of the best 10 CDs in 2009; the CD «Aurora» on Maya Recordings (Agustí Fernandez, Barry Guy and Ramón López) was selected by Cuadernos de Jazz magazine as the best CD in 2007, by the Jaç magazine as the best fourth disc of the history of the Catalan jazz. In 2000 he received the Festival Altaveu Award, Sant Boi de Llobregat (Catalonia). In 2001 he received the FAD – Sebastià Guasch Award, Barcelona (Catalonia) with Andrés Corchero for the performance A modo de esperanza. In 2010 he received the Ciutat de Barcelona Music Award granted by the Council of Barcelona. In 2013 he received the National Prize of Culture granted by the Catalan Government.

He’s professor of improvised music at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). He’s developing an important teaching activity in the field of improvised music and, among others, he has been teaching in IRCAM in Paris, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre de Tallin, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Holland), the Conservatory in Arhem (Holland), the Taller de Músicos in Gijón (Spain), the Taller de Músics in Barcelona and the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Salamanca (Spain).