Ferdinando De Sena is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, and is Director of the Electronic and Computer Music Program, He teaches composition, electroacoustic music, and advanced analysis classes.

Fred De Sena was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1950. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Computer Music at Ithaca College, and earned both a Master of Music degree in Electronic and Computer Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition, at the University of Miami. His principal teachers were Dennis Kam, Don Wilson, and Peter Rothbart.

His music has been performed at international, national and regional conferences of the College Music Society, Society of Composers, Inc., International Computer Music Conference, Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, International Double Reed Society, Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical (LIPM) Buenos Aires, and at many other concert and theatrical venues.

email:  fdesena@miami.edu