Bruno Robles-Rendón (b. 2004) is a first generation Mexican-American composer, performer, and organizer based and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He has written music for various ensembles including Mantra Percussion, JACK Quartet, the Bergamot String Quartet, MACE, and the Mannes Orchestra. He is currently serving as the founder and artistic director of the concert series Notes After which features the voices of many young emerging composers.

Bruno’s music is driven by his insatiable curiosity. His main space is that of "contemporary-classical music" but he doesn't constrain himself to that. He loves to play around and explore new musical concepts with every piece he writes. He views composition as not just a means to create but also as a means to understand. As a way to learn more about music and as a way to learn more about people. His music draws from a variety genres and movements such as minimalism, postminimalism, modal jazz, ambient, classical, xenharmony, avante-garde, alt/indie-rock, latin-folk, neosoul, R&B, and more.

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Although primarily a cellist when performing, Bruno also plays the guitar as a singer-songwriter and as a member of a shoegaze/dreampop band with friends.

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Bruno graduated from the Preparatory of the Mannes School of Music in 2022 as an honors program composition student and cello double major. Bruno is now a 4th year student in the integrated Bachelor’s-Master’s at the Mannes School of Music were he is pursuing a BM in composition and an MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship. He is currently  studying under the mentorship Mary Kouyoumdjian after timme spent studying with David T. Little and Christopher Cerrone. 

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As an avid reader, Bruno loves reading science fiction  books.He loves to imagine different futures and ways of structuring society; a better world is possible. He strives for the dismantling of oppressive systems as an activist and works to re-imagine his own music scene as one accessible and open to all.