Agustí Fernández is one of the most important explorers of avant garde music in Spain. Agustí combines thorough knowledge of the 20th century modern classical piano with jazz free improvisation to a unique and powerful style. Agustí considers himself as a self trained musician, though he studied in Palma de Mallorca's Conservatory and extended his formation at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and with Iannis Xenakis or Carles Santos, among others, and he has recognized very often that in his music there are influences from Cecil Taylor in jazz and Iannis Xenakis in contemporary music. Two influences that helps him to developed in a unique style full of a pasion for explore new musical lenguages.
In 1985 he released his first recording, "Ardent", a solo piano, who marks the start of his career as a free improviser, where his has became in a knowledge master. In fact, in mid 90's he was director of the Orquestra del Caos (Barcelona) and founder member with Joan Saura and Liba Villavecchia of IBA (Improvisers of Barcelona Association) -collective of improvising musicians and dancers. He has been director of IBA until 2001.
His continuous colaborations with international free improvisers becomes fundamental for his maturity and progressions, as well as for a later recognition inside this scene. Among many others, Agustí has played with Tom Cora, Peter Kowlad, Carlos Zingaro o Marilyn Crispell.
Nowadays, in adition to his solo work, Agustí is maintaining several stable projects: Trío Local (with Joan Saura, sampler and Liba Villavecchia, saxophones); a duo with german violinist Christoph Irmer and a permanent collaboration with spanish Butoh dancer Andrés Corchero. He is member for the Butch Morris work in progress "Folding Spaces". In the summer of 2000 he received the "Altaveu 2000" award (Spain).
From 2001, he teaches Improvisation at the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya), becoming the first teacher of this subject in any official school or conservatory in Spain.

Silvia Grijalba

• Ardent (LP, Blau, 1986)
• Suite Nofres (LP, PDI, 1987)
• Agustí Fernández plus Big Ensemble Taller de Musics: Aura (CD, Taller de Musics, 1993)
• Evan Parker & Agustí Fernández: Tempranillo (CD, Nova Era, 1995)
• Marilyn Crispell & Agustí Fernández: Dark Night, and luminous (CD, Nova Era, 1998)
• 1 Is Not 1 - Piano Bits And Pieces (CD, Nova Era, 1998)
• Agustí Fernández & Christoph Irmer: Ebro Delta (CD, Hybrid, 1998)
• Agustí Fernández Trio with William Parker and Susie Ibarra: One Night at the Joan Miró Foundation (CD, Synergy Records, 1999)
• Agustí Fernández & William Parker: Second Set (CD, Radical Records, 2001)
• Derek Bailey & Agustí Fernández: Barcelona (CD, Hopscotch Records, 2002)

"A measure of the international dimension of Parker’s career is that, less than a week after the Chicago recording, he is in the studio again, this time in Barcelona. Probably hard to get hold of, but as heady as the vinous elixir of the title. Fernández is a fiery Mallorcan who is superficially reminiscent of Borah Bergman and plays in a similar hinterland between jazz and new music. At moments, he sounds as if he might be playing scored pieces by Xenakis and Stockhausen; at others, some passionate folk theme seems about to announce itself. Parker goes about his music with the same intensity as ever, listening, responding, interpolating new ideas. The studio sound is very good, with a resonant piano and a vibrant space round the saxophone. It’s to be hoped that a few of these at least get into general circulation." (Richard Cook & Brian Morton - The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, fourth edition, about "Tempranillo")

"This is a remarkably successful pairing, not only because Irmer and Fernández are individually very good players, nor only because together they exchange ideas intelligently without simply mimicking one another, but also because they have the nerve to allow those virtues to speak for themselves. Less confident players might have included compositions, gimmicks, overbearing experimentalism or overstated expressivity, and the outcome would probably have been less favourable. As a concentrated burst of musical intelligence, this disc is absolutely first rate." (Richard Cochrane - about "Ebro Delta")