Ferdinando De Sena, Brooklyn-born composer teaches composition and electronic music at the New World School of the Arts, in Miami He was Director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Miami from 2003 to 2009. Fred De Sena’s music has been performed at international, national, and regional conferences of CMS (the College Music Society), SCI (the Society of Composers, Inc.), ICMC (the International Computer Music Conference), SEAMUS, (the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States), and IDRS (the International Double Reed Society). He has also had performances at many other concert and theatrical venues including National University of Ireland, Maynooth, BitBang Festival in Firenze, Recoleta Centro Cultural and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and the Puerto Rico Conservatory.
Fred De Sena has earned degrees from Ithaca College (B.A in Computer Science and Music) and from the University of Miami (M.M in Electronic Music and D.M.A. in Composition). His principal teachers were Dennis Kam, (composition), Peter Rothbart and Don Wilson (electronic music), His music is published by St. Francis Music Publications and desenamusic.com.