Alfred Jimenez Romanenko is a composer, performer, and artistic thinker whose work examines sound as something that comes into being rather than something made. Moving between gesture, resistance, and collapse, his music seeks the point where presence emerges — where doing becomes being, and sound becomes existence.

Rather than treating sound as an object to be shaped, Jimenez approaches it as something that emerges—ontologically—from the body in motion. His practice investigates how being becomes audible, how silence turns into vibration, and how the performer’s struggle can expose the moment when meaning stops being constructed and begins to appear. His scores operate less as instructions than as provocations: they invite collapse, demand decision, and refuse simulation.

Critics have described his work as “mesmerisingly original and profoundly impactful” (VoxCarnyx), marked by “deliberate constraint, expressive intensity, and sheer boldness of technique.” At Nordic Music Days, With Voice (performed by Gageego!) was singled out as “the most interesting voice in the programme,” noted for its raw emotional force and radical instrumental usage. Recent performances include Voicemarks, commissioned and premiered by Duo Signal in Basel, Switzerland.

Jimenez has collaborated with ensembles such as Avanti! (FI), AuditivVokal Dresden (DE), Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (SE), Antwerp Symphony Orchestra (BE), Musica Vitae (SE), Kreutzer Quartet (UK), Ensemble Boswil (CH), and Norrbotten NEO (SE).

He earned his master’s degree from the Malmö Academy of Music under Prof. Luca Francesconi, continued at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) with Prof. Detlev Müller-Siemens, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He is Senior Lecturer in Musical Performance and Music Theory at Örebro University, Sweden. His work has been recognized by The Royal Swedish Academy of Music, the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, the Sten K. Johnson Foundation, the Sixten Gemzeus Foundation, the Anna Whitlock Foundation, and the Society of Swedish Composers.