Ignacio Rosado (b. 2007) is an American composer, producer, and musician. 

Ignacio Rosado’s compositional work engages with Western classical music by probing its developed traditions through multimodal experimentation and considering how other musical styles and aesthetics from across time and space can interact with those traditions. Important to his work are concepts of energy, particularly as it relates to attention and short-term memory; abstraction, to allow a listener’s individual experiences influence their perception of the music; optimism and nostalgia, exploring devices that uplift or prompt interaction with long-term memory; and sonic accessibility, finding ways to connect general audiences with the avant-garde through the familiar. Rosado’s unique approach to the art of music composition results in work that carefully considers both performer and audience experiences. It aims to connect with and highlight various aspects of the human condition, as well as promote outside invitation to the exciting world of contemporary Western classical music. 

Found throughout Ignacio Rosado’s music is evidence of his progressive experimentation, particularly on the fronts of timbre/texture, form/structure, and harmony (via microtonality), amongst others. Rosado’s music often embraces the beauty of random systems by employing aleatoric devices, channeling a world-reflective unpredictability while allowing performers important creative freedom in performance.

Ignacio Rosado’s work includes music for both performance settings and screen media. His music has been recorded and performed by members of The Harlem Chamber Players, New York Youth Symphony, and the Nu Deco Ensemble; by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, and the Mostly Modern Orchestra; and in venues such as National Sawdust, Steinway Hall (NY), and the New World Center. He was recently named a 2025 YoungArts Winner with Distinction and has been recognized by organizations such as What Is Noise and Tribeca New Music. In 2023, he (music) and collaborator Ava Briglia’s (lyrics) song “United” won Sing for Hope’s 2023 HandaHarmony Song Contest, which saw performances at the United Nations’ High-Level Political Forum and General Assembly of that year; Rosado and Briglia have since received more commissions for songs from Sing for Hope and maintain a relationship with their Youth Chorus. In 2025, he received a commission from composer laboratory Golden Hornet to rescore Somewhere in Dreamland, the 1936 Max Fleischer animated short, as part of their Cinema Recomposed program.