Ignacio Rosado is an up-and-coming 16-year-old Hispanic prodigal composer, pianist, and violinist. He began training at three years old when his special gift was discovered and he was identified as a musical prodigy. His journey has been nothing short of amazing and has included thousands of performances, hundreds of national and international competition titles, and a Broadway debut in the School of Rock at 10 years old (also the same time as his first invitation to play Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center).
Iggy has attended several music schools throughout his years including McPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis where he started his violin and piano/composition training (Susan Crawford, Sarah Miller, Jay Fishman), School For Strings in NYC (Allan Lieb), and for the past several years Manhattan School of Music where he has studied under Tatiana Goncharova (piano) and Xiao Wang (violin).
Iggy also began studying dance at three with his sister Liliana (11 months younger), and at five years old they began Latin ballroom studies as partners under world-renowned dancers Daniella and Pasha Pashkova from Dancing With the Stars.
Throughout his training, he also had exclusive representation from TV/Commercial/Film and Broadway agencies (Frontier Booking International), and modeling agencies (Funny Face Talent-NYC market and Meredith Talent Agency-Minneapolis market). He has appeared in many ad campaigns, TV commercials, and a feature film. He walked the runway at fashion week several times and had a blast at many photo shoots-often booked together with his sister, Liliana.
In addition to all of his training and performances, Iggy has given back a tremendous amount of his time and talent to the performing arts community of New York City and around the United States. Since 2018, Iggy has donated thousands of hours to the development of aspiring talented youth in need throughout the poorest congressional districts in the United States. Iggy has donated his talents to several organizations such as Reaching for the Arts, Sing for Hope, and Broadway Express, which all share the mission of making sure ALL children have access to the performing arts. He has taught violin, composition, piano, and dance to thousands of students, accompanied students, choirs, and musicians, and has played at senior homes throughout Manhattan. One of his favorite projects was through Reaching for the Arts when he composed and directed his first musical within NYC public schools at ten years old.
Raising a prodigy and developing Iggy's gift has come with a tremendous amount of sacrifice and dedication from everyone around him, and the journey is not even close to being over! Over a decade of 365 days a year practicing multiple instruments, weekly lessons, preparing for auditions and performances, shows, shoots, etc. and we have arrived at the next exciting chapter!
Unable to have a traditional education path due to the time commitments of developing his gift, Iggy was homeschooled and completed high school coursework at 13 years old. At the peak of covid, Iggy began to take online composition courses through Berklee College of Music out of Boston, in which he was very successful and demonstrated he was college ready. So this year, at 15 years old, he applied and was accepted into the world-renowned, cutting-edge Screen Scoring program at New York University (NYU) in New York City.
Ignacio will always be a performer at heart, but his career aspiration is to be the next leading Hispanic composer in the TV/Film/Gaming industry. The program at NYU will give him the cutting-edge tools he will need to thrive in this industry, and the access to work with the top industry professionals. You may donate to his GoFundMe using the button below.
Iggy is available to be commissioned for compositions, performances, concerts, and group or private lessons (violin, piano, and composition) in person or virtually. He is also available to speak at events which include Q&A sessions on any part of his journey (about his composition process, his time on Broadway, growing up as a prodigy, etc.).
