Bruno Robles-Rendón (b. 2004) is a first generation Mexican-American composer, cellist, educator, organizer, and producer raised in Brooklyn, New York. He has written music for various ensembles including
Mantra Percussion, JACK Quartet, the Bergamot String Quartet, MACE, ASTRA, and the Mannes Orchestra. He was the founder and director of the concert series "Notes After," a concert series dedicated to programming the music of gen-Z composers featuring 5-9 composers per concert. Bruno's music is largely inspired by themes of childhood, memory snapshots, neurodivergence, nature, and anti-fascism. Rooted in contemporary classical music, his diverse musical style stretches to the far corners of this musical sphere and beyond including music for concert, film, and mixed-media ranging from intimate songs to abstract microtonal works. electronics, song, and sound art. Bruno views musical creation as more than creative expression. For him it’s also a means of learning about people, the world, and himself.
Featured Video
Bruno Robles-Rendón's "Ecphrasis of a New Dawn" recorded by the JACK Quartet in 2024.
Notes After
Bruno is the founder and artistic director of Notes After, a concert series that features fresh, innovative, contemporary-classical music by young emerging composers. The concerts are held at Francis Kite Club, a Lower East Side a collectively built space created for sociality, leisure, collaboration, debate, conversation, and play
Featured Theory Video
Bruno makes videos on Youtube analyzing various music in extreme depth. All publicly available for anyone to see. His mission is to create the content he wished existed for a composer and student of music like himself.
For music theory or compositions lessons go to the contact page
Bruno Robles-Rendón is the solo developer and designer of the Trichord Trainer ear training webapp. It uses the science-based SM-2 spaced repetition algorithm to teach users to identify over 10,000 trichords in a tonal context. It is the first step in Bruno's larger project to create an online educational suite to make music education and training more accessible to people.