Inés Medina-Fernández

In 2016 Danza was added as background to the Circulo de Bellas Artes' television documentary Javier Manterola: El oficio de Ingeniero.

During Summer 2015 Medina-Fernández began collaborating with veteran composer and blues performer Chris Gibbons.

In 2011, Medina-Fernández collaborated with the Oxford Guitar Ensemble - a quartet of classical guitars - and created a composition for them entitled Danza, which was premiered by them at a concert on May 27, 2011 at Somerville College, Oxford, and thereafter again at St John's College on June 1, 2011. Danza, again, has a complex and lyrical structure that surprises and entices.

From 2011 to the present Medina-Fernández completed several new pieces including Evidence of Design (minimal and dissonant in character), Meditation, and GraveMente, which explores the deep resonant sounds of the piano.

In 2010 she completed another three pieces, this time for piano called, Lluvia de Perlas, Mosaic and The Dome. Lluvia de Perlas was inspired by the baroque masters. Mosaic was inspired by the experience of looking at a Gaudi work in Barcelona, and reflecting that one might either focus upon the minutiae of individual features, or on the totality of the image. The Dome was inspired by the grandeur of Dresden's Frauenkirche. These pieces were recorded in April 2011 and were submitted to Oxford Contemporary Music.

Medina-Fernández's first fully-fledged compositions were completed in 2009 - three pieces for horn, piano and violin entitled Conversation - and were recorded with musicians from Oxford University. These pieces represent conversations taking place between the instruments as if they were friends conversing.

In 2004 she moved to Oxford, England, and worked for several leading science publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell and Atlantis Press. At this time she started studying composition in earnest. Amongst others, she read everything by Arnold Schoenberg and sought guidance from composer colleagues. Medina-Fernández attended the Composers' Workshop at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, under Jonathan Darnborough. She also attended Composer's Workshops at the Faculty of Music under, amongst others, Martyn Harry and Joanna MacGregor.

Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, she studied physics there until 1994, when she moved to Canterbury, England. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Kent in 1998 then lived in Ghent, Belgium, until 2000.

Inés Medina-Fernández (born February 8, 1974 in Madrid, Spain) is a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. She began playing piano at the age of 8, completing examinations at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. An experienced pianist and self-taught composer, her compositions draw upon many influences - from Baroque to John Cage, to film and documentary music, for example. She explores composition for a variety of instruments, and has composed not only for piano but also for horn and classical guitar. Her love of film music has led to collaborations with producers and directors. Medina-Fernández also enjoys working with musicians interested in premiering her pieces.