Iván Adriano's recent work is focused on the exploration of instrumental and electronic resources using elements that refer simultaneously to culture and nature. The creative process starts from the possibility of sound evocation and body gesture as expressive means, both immanent to the musical architectures. From this perspective, the composition is thought as an act of collective consciousness, motivated by the need to transform the sound of the environment in the instant in which the musical event is considered as such. The formalization is made from an abstraction of the sonic phenomenon of the environment without resorting to the pure representation of reality; this is done by also exploiting the limitations of the medium and the construction of complex morphologies. Iván Adriano Zetina Ríos (Mexico City, 1985) completed professional studies in classical guitar at the UNAM Faculty of Music (2010) and holds a master’s degree (2015) and a PhD (2023) in Music and Musicology, both from the Sorbonne University. He studied performance and composition in Italy (2006, Accademia Chigiana), France (2020, Conservatoire de Boulogne-Bilancourt), Austria (2021, Impuls Academy) and Germany (2021, Darmstädter Ferienkurse), as well as in Cuba, Serbia and the Netherlands.

As a composer, he began working in theater and film by collaborating on projects carried out by experimental collectives in Mexico and France (2013-2017). Later, in 2017, he was awarded the first prize in composition at the international competition « Ecoute 2017 » (France), for his piece Perceptions. His early pieces have been played by ensembles such as Liminar (Mexico), l’Itineraire (France), Ecoute (France), Psappha (UK), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Russia), Ónix (Mexico). His piece Grattos of Netanya (2021), for electric guitar, has been performed by Samuel Toro Pérez at the Transart Festival in Bolzano (Italy), at the Impuls Festival in Graz (Austria), and in venues such as SeeLab and Alte Schmiede in Vienna (Austria). The electroacoustic miniatures Coïts-Introïts and Dissection-Sanctus have been played at the CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras), on UNDAE RADIO radio Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, on the VIII Electroacoustic Music Festival of University Austral of Chile, on (Pro)Stranstvo: Multichannel Electronic Music XII St. Petersburg International New Music Festival and on the Aires Festival 2025. His works are currently promoted by the publishing house Babel Scores. In 2023, Ivan Adriano integrates the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, from Mexico.

As a performer, he has collaborated with renowned composers such as Luciano Azzigotti, Pierluigi Billone, Julio Estrada, Germán Romero, Samuel Cedillo, Erika Vega, Sofia Avramidou, Giulia Lorusso and Elena Rykova. He has performed in national and international festivals in Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the United States. From 2017 to 2019 he was an active part of the collective Vorágines (Mexico), whose mission is to give visibility to contemporary Mexican repertoire. In 2022 he participated in the making of the album Simplemente un rio: obras para guitarra 1995-2017 by Germán Romero, collaborating with performers such as Alexander Bruck (viola), Wilfrido Terrazas (flute) and Iván Manzanilla (percussions). The same year he was invited to collaborate with Ufa Sextet in the project Asymptotic Freedom II, to perform at the Institut for Computer Music and Sound Technology in Zurich (Switzerland), and for the Contemporary Music Society in Laussane (Switzerland). In 2023 he was invited by the ensemble Black Page Orchestra to perform at the concert « Halucinatio » at the Musikverein in Vienna (Austria).

As a researcher, he lectured at institutions such as the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), the Nova Lisboa University (Portugal), the University of Tübingen (Germany), the University of Manchester (England), IRCAM (France), the Arabic and Mediterranean Music Center (Tunisia), and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. From 2019 to 2021, he taught music writing with electronic media at the University Paris 8 Saint-Denis. From 2021 to 2022, he was a full-time temporary lecturer-researcher at the University of Lille. From 2022 to 2023, he was a full-time temporary lecturer-research at the Sorbonne University, in charge of the courses Musical Analysis of the 20th and 21st Century, History of 20th Century Music, as well as Music Informatics and Recording Studio Techniques. From 2023, he is half-time professor at the University of Evry Paris-Saclay.