Ferdinando De Sena, Brooklyn-born American composer currently teaches at the New World School of the Arts, in Miami. He teaches composition and electronic music. He was Director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Miami from 2003 to 2009. Scholarly interests include musical aesthetics, and the analysis of popular music. 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 principle teachers were Dennis Kam, (composition), Peter Rothbart and Don Wilson (electronic music), His music is published by St. Framcis Music Publications and desenamusic.com