Germán Romero. Mérida, México, 1966. He graduated in Composition at UNAM (Mexico), studying with Julio Estrada. He was a guest resident faculty at Les Ateliers UPIC in France (1994) and in the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada (2005). He has had classes with Jörg Herchet, Didier Rocton, Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann, among others.
Romero's Cuarteto de Cuerdas No 3 received honorable mention in the Primer Concurso Nacional de Composición Silvestre Revueltas (2000) and was one of 10 works selected in the 47th International Rostrum of Composers (2000) for their International radio broadcast. In 2000, together with the Yucatan State Government, he produced a CD titled 'El Principio.' In 2002, the Radar Festival commissioned 'Ramas,' for solo violin, which was premiered and recorded by Irvine Arditti (Mode Records 165CD). His works have been performed in festivals like the Internationale Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (Germany), the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva 'Manuel Enríquez,' the Festival Internacional de música de Morelia, the Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de Michoacán, the American Festival of Microtonal Music (New York), the Encuentro Latinoamericano de Arpa (Venezuela), the Chicago ICEFest, the Otoño Cultural de Yucatán, Radar Festival, and the Festival Cervantino.
Romero was a founder of the Festival Internacional de Música de Michoacán and was the artistic director of its first three seasons.
Along with his composition career, Germán Romero is dedicated to research and teaching in ear training, a subject that he has taught in diverse higher education settings in Mexico since 1989. He taught an ear training course at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña.
From 1998 to 2008, Romero was professor of composition and analysis and head of the Ear Training division at the Conservatorio de las Rosas, in Morelia, Michoacán, and was dean of the conservatory from 2004 to 2007.