Biography
David Hernández-Ramos is member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores del Arte (National System of Art Creators). Born in Mexico City in 1975, he studied violin in UNAM’s Facultad de Música with Manuel Suárez, as well as composition in Paris with Jean-Luc Hervé at Boulogne-Billancourt’s Conservatory and Nanterre’s Conservatory, later at Evry val d’Essonne’s University and Music Analysis with Vincent Decleire at Sevran’s Conservatory. In 2009 he reached his Composition Prize at Boulogne-Billancourt’s Conservatory.
In 2000 he won the first prize of the National Composition Contest SINFOMNICA and in 2010 he won the Miguel Bernal Jiménez Composition Contest. In 2011 he won the International Composition Prize Jesús Villa-Rojo (Spain) and in 2012 1st prize of the National Composition Contest NUESTRA AMÉRICA.
In 2010 and 2011, he was chosen by the Mexican Music Council (COMUS) to represent Mexico at the International Music Council’s (IMC) International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) in Lisbon and Vienna, respectively. In 2012 he became part of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA). In 2013 he was semi-finalist of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Contest and in 2014 he was selected by Arditti String Quartet for the Reading Panel in Monterrey. In 2017, he won IBERMÚSICAS’ Second Iberoamerican Composition Contest for Symphonic Orchestra’s unique prize, among 148 contestants and in 2019 he won the first National Composition Competition Mexico-Japan hosted by Yamaha.
His works have been performed in France, Switzerland, Spain, Cuba, the United States, Colombia, Chile, Brazil and Mexico by the Court-circuit Ensemble (Paris), Arditti String Quartet, José White String Quartet, the Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Grupo LIM (Madrid), Vertixe Sonora (Galicia), Ensemble Vertebrae (Strasbourg) and Cepromusic among others. He followed stages with Bruno Mantovani and Hughes Doufour at the Acanthes Center in Metz and with Luca Francesconi, Yan Maresz and Jesús Rueda in Mollina (Spain).
He studied baroque violin with Hélène Schmitt at Boulogne-Billancourt’s Conservatory. He’s founder of Castalia Ensamble Música Antigua and violinist and violist at La Partenope Baroque Orchestra, with whom he’s performed in Mexico, France and Peru.
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Awards & Recognition
2023
Winner of the Federico Ibarra Prize – New Orchestral Music 2023 sponsored by the Federico Ibarra Foundation and Música UNAM.
Receives the support for premiere of work 2022 granted by the SGAE for the work «Widmung» for violin and instrumental group.
2021
Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
2019
Winner of 2nd place in the First Mexico-Japan Composition Competition sponsored by Yamaha.
2018
Obtains the support of IBERMÚSICAS to perform a residency and write a new piece for AWKAS ensemble in Paris and Geneva.
Selected for the call for composition of duos for violin and cello for Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta, of the Menuhin festival in Gstaad, Switzerland.
2017
Winner of the 2nd IBERMÚSICAS orchestral composition competition.
2015
Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
2014
Selected for the Arditti Quartet Reading Panel, within the framework of the Festival de Música Nueva 2014 in Monterrey NL.
2013
Part of the 13 semifinalists of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium composition competition.
2011
Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
Selected to represent Mexico at the International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) of the International Music Council (IMC) in Vienna, Austria.
Winner of the first composition contest for string quartet Nuestra América, organized by the string quartet José White and FONCA.
2010
Winner of the III Jesús Villa-Rojo International Composition Prize, Guadalajara, Spain.
Winner of the National Composition Contest Miguel Bernal Jiménez. Morelia, Michoacán.
Selected to represent Mexico at the International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) of the International Music Council (IMC) in Lisbon, Portugal.
2009
Selected for the closing concert of the ACANTHES center, Metz, France, with the work: …y de no verte más…, for 13 performers.
2008
Mention of the jury at the Young Composers Competition of the CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
2001
Selected to participate in the reading workshop of works by young composers organized by the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jorge Mester.
2000
Winner of the 1st Prize in the National Composition Competition SINFOMNICA (OMNILIFE-FONCA) Guadalajara, Mexico.
“I like music…just good music ;-).”
David Hernández-Ramos