Iván Enrique Rodríguez

Described by San Francisco Classical Voice, Boston Classical Review, and New York Concert Review as fiery, gripping, lyrical, eloquent, with a strong feeling for musical drama, and a gifted colorist with an abundance of emotional energy and the means to communicate it, Puerto Rican composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez’ (b.1990) music has been performed in P.R., the U.S., throughout North/South America and Europe in important venues and landmarks such as the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Alice Tully Hall in New York City, Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland, Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, among others around the world. In Italy, his piece Madre Luna, received 2014’s Rimini International Choral Competition prize; and where his Crípticos Nos. 1, 2 & 3 acquire him one of 2015’s International Composition Competition Maurice Ravel awards. Rodríguez received the 2019’s prestigious ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award and 2023 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize, and has also been invited to participate as composer-in-residence for Sweden’s Lövstabruks Kammarmusikfestival, the historic Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 2022 season, among others. His musical-social involvement was recognized Musical America Worldwide naming him one of the 2021 Top Professionals of the Year, and by Junior Chamber International with 2014’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World award in P.R.