Agustí Fernández

Agustí Fernández (Palma de Mallorca, 1954), with a perfectly based career and a well-deserved international reputation, is one of the Spanish musicians of major international projection and a world reference in the field of improvised music. Fernández has worked with the big names of the free improvisation scene as Peter Kowald, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Barry Guy, among many others (he is a member of the Evan Parker Electro-acoustic Ensemble and of the Barry Guy New Orchestra, from 2002). Up to the current date he has published more than 50 CD's.

Fernández is a titular teacher of improvisation at the High Music School of Catalonia (ESMUC).

Along his professional life, he has received many recognitions, and his solo for piano Mutza presented in New York in 2007 was distinguished by the New York magazine AllAboutJazz as one of the 10 best concerts from that year. The CD "Un llamp que no s'acaba mai" on PSI (Agustí Fernandez, John Edwards and Mark Sanders) has been distinguished by Allaboutjazz as one of the best 10 CD's in 2009; the CD "Aurora" on Maya Recordings (Agustí Fernández, Barry Guy and Ramón López) was selected by the Spanish "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 and it was Disc d'émoi (February, 2007) for the French "Jazz Magazine".

In 2010 Agustí Fernández received the "Ciutat of Barcelona Award of Music 2010" granted by the Town Hall of Barcelona.